The Great Challenge – Week 25

Hi friends! Time for another update on The Great Challenge with Dean. Spoiler Alert – I succeeded again!

That makes 25 stories in 25 weeks. One more week and I get some free money towards workshops in Vegas. Sweet!

  1. Red Orchid – Romance – 3,800 words
  2. Debts And Obligations – Sword and Sorcery – 14,200 words
  3. Naughty And Nice – Modern Fantasy – 4,800 words
  4. Popper’s – Mystery – 4,100 words
  5. The Case Of The Missing Rocker – SciFi/Mystery – 7,200 words
  6. Fences And Neighbors – Post-Apocalyptic – 4,800 words
  7. Give A Dog A Bone – Doggy Mystery – 3,200 words
  8. Untitled – Romance – 5,300 words
  9. Lost On Cordant Station – Science Fiction – 8,560 words
  10. Kicking The Anthill – Urban Fantasy/Adventure – 3,863 words
  11. VIP Treatment – Modern Fantasy – 6,012 words
  12. A Man Of Faith – Religious/Supernatural Thriller Maybe? – 9,013 words
  13. Abe’s Liquors – Romantic Suspense – 2,951 words
  14. Cave Diving For Dummies – Sea Story/Suspense – 3,491 words
  15. Work Release – Science Fiction – 4,910 words
  16. Miss Melody And The Elf Spa – Fantasy – 4,175 words
  17. Joyride To The Moon – YA Science Fiction – 5,444 words
  18. Moonstruck – Fantasy/Horror – 4,683 words
  19. Wire Runs – Science Fiction – 2,119 words
  20. Miss Melody And The Knight Gallant – Fantasy – 5,573 words
  21. Lost Credit – Fantasy/Sword And Sorcery – 4,407 words
  22. 22. Hunting For Game – Mystery/Crime – 2,474 words
  23. Caledonia – Science Fiction/Horror – 4,870 words
  24. Love In The Apocalypse – Science Fiction/Horror – 3,389 words
  25. Playing For Scraps – Science Fiction – 5,307 words

That brings it to 128,669 words total for this challenge, and 166,446 words for the year over the span of 85.78 hours (1,941.59 words/hr on average).

I’ve been thinking through the Great Novel Challenge that I mentioned last week. Not ready to put any money down toward that right this moment, because I have other cash flow items I need to focus on at the moment.

BUT I am going to get started on that basic principle of the challenge anyway. So the goal will be to do 5,000 words toward a novel each week, in addition to the weekly short story. That will get me the 40,000 words toward a novel every two months that the Great Novel Challenge requires.

I’ll report on how that goes each week as I make this report.

We’ll see how this goes, eh?

Until next time! 🙂

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