The Great Challenge – Week 30

30 weeks into the Great Challenge with Dean. Still successful.

This week I meant to get rolling on the story early, but I didn’t. In fact, I didn’t even get started until Sunday afternoon. In fact, I slacked off to watch Mad Max – Beyond Thunderdome (since believe it or not, I never had before) and didn’t get started until about 4 o’clock.

I finished the story a little before 8pm and sent it to Dean, then got back to reading Pulphouse Issue 0 for the workshop I’m doing. So I slacked a bit earlier in the week – not really because I was very busy last week, but in terms of writing anyway – but still got it done.

On to the next week, and the next success.

Here are the stories from the Great Challenge so far:

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. 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
26. Terran New Year – Scifi/Romance – 3,103 words
27. Santa Fe Station – Mystery/Crime – 5,486 words
28. Finding Bobby Jenkins – Science Fiction – 7,552 words
29. Warden’s Trial – Sword and Sorcery – 3,790 words
30. On The Road To Hopefell – Post-Apocalyptic – 4,041 words

That brings it to 152,641 words total for this challenge, and 190,528 words for the year over the span of 97.12 hours (1,961.85 words/hr on average).

I haven’t done much for NaNoWriMo so far this month. Been busy with other real life stuff. But I’m going to be starting up this week, to make progress on Warfare Qualified so I can have it out early next year.

So that’s the plan. More to follow at the end of the week.

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