Scribbler Daily Tracking Post

This entry is part 77 of 82 in the series Daily Scribble Reports

At the end of each month, I usually compile the statistics for the month, provided I tracked my writing for the entire month.

October 2013

New Words

• Fiction & Poetry: 39,410 words
• Blog: 9,831 words
• Nonfiction: 362 words

January 2014

New Words

• Fiction: 17,392 words
• Poetry: 102 lines | 498 words
• Blog: 8030 words

Finalized Words

• Fanfic: 1397 words
• Poetry:104 lines | 496 words

February 2014

New Words

• Fiction: 12,260 words
• Poetry: 111 lines | 626 words
• Blog: 4979 words

Finalized Words

• Fanfic: 3443 words
• Poetry: 98 lines | 612 words

March 2014

New Words

• Fiction: 14,718 words
• Poetry: 584 lines | 2858 words
• Blog: 1127 words

Finalized Words

• Fanfic: 6861 words
• Poetry: 317 lines | 2270 words

2014 Completed Pieces

1. Poem: "Before My Eyes," 220 words | 47 lines.
2. Fanfic: "Mistakes," 1397 words.
3. Poem: "Writer's Social Therapy," 32 words | 4 lines.
4. Poem: "Blanket Statements," 8 lines| 48 words.
5. Poem: "Friends Like These," 24 lines | 121 words.
6. Poem: “Empty Spaces,” 7 lines | 20 words.
7. Poem: “The Soundless Scream,” 5 lines | 22 words.
8. Poem: “Like a Light,” 9 lines | 43 words.
9. Fanfic: “Wholeness of Self,” 783 words.
10. Poem: "Tell Me," 8 lines | 37 words.
11. Poem: "Mother," 8 lines | 22 words.
12. Fanfic: Invisible Ficathon Treat, 269 words.
13. Poem: "Native," 31 lines | 232 words.
14. Poem: "Moderation," 6 lines | 20 words.
15. Poem: "I Should Think," 20 lines| 140 words.
16. Fanfic: Invisible Ficathon Treat, 2391 words.
17. Poem: "Cursor," 7 lines | 54 words.
18. Poem: "Unrequited Pain," 8 lines | 29 words.
19. Poem: "Is Snow," 6 lines | 42 words.
20. Poem: "Buttercups," 4 lines | 36 words.
21. Poem: "Open Hands," 12 lines | 63 words.
22. Fanfic: “God Help the World,” 205 words.
23. Poem: "Everything's Blood and All is Well," 16 lines | 97 words.
24. Fanfic: “Perfection,” 688 words.
25. Fanfic: Invisible Ficathon Assignment, 1267 words.
26. Poem: "Wonder," 4 lines | 29 words.
27. Prose Poem: “the bringing of light,” 485 words.
28. Poem: “Rothnen,” 24 lines | 102 words.
29. Poem: “This is the universe…” 12 lines | 80 words.
30. Poem: “For Sister,” 4 lines | 36 words.
31. Fanfic: "Demoralized," 204 words.
32. Fanfic: Invisible Ficathon Treat, 198 words.
33. Poem: Invisible Ficathon Treat, 8 lines | 66 words.
34. Poem: Invisible Ficathon Treat, 3 lines | 7 words.
35. Fanfic: Invisible Ficathon Treat, 125 words.
36. Fanfic: Invisible Ficathon Treat, 201 words.
37. Fanfic: Invisible Ficathon Treat, 2376 words.
38. Poem: “Name You,” 136 lines | 795 words.
39. Poem: “Tale of Domestic Life in a Series of Coffee Cups,” 19 lines | 110 words.
40. Poem: “What Happened,” 44 lines | 191 words.
41. Poem: “The Wild Balloon,” 9 lines | 71 words.
42. Poem: “With the Tide,” 8 lines | 43 words.
43. Poem: “Apologies,” 4 lines | 17 words.
44. Poem: “Daughter Kiss.X Wife,” 6 lines | 27 words.
45. Fanfic: “Thin Walls of Stone,” 1397 words.
46. Poem: “Walls of Stone,” 8 lines | 51 words

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In the Meantime...

This entry is part 82 of 82 in the series Daily Scribble Reports

March 26, 2014

Was chatting via email with lithiumlaughter and this morning, the conversations turned into a 1397 word fic. Whoops. It wasn't good enough though, not quite enough. I'm changing my Couples Big Bang pairing.

March 28, 2014

Started putting together a poetry collection for lithiumlaughter, since poetry was actually happening (research and fic were frying my brain) and wrote a poem to go with the fanfic.

March 29, 2014

I almost forgot. I wrote a ton of fodder on this day, probably a few thousand words of poetry that will never see the light of day, thus the name "fodder." I'm not counting it.

March 30, 2014

Focused on rereading “Justice” and reminding myself of where I want to steer it. Unfortunately realized that I need to check in for the Couples Big Bang tomorrow, so also need to work on that. Finished out what I started on the 29th of getting gift books ready for publication. Will need to continue wrapping that up on the 1st.

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So I owe you all an end of March post and would like to check back in to my publication/release schedule issues as well. I’m not really happy with that bit.

Word Counts:

• Fiction: 1397 words
• Poetry: 8 lines | 51 words
• Blog: 18 words

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Quick Recap of the Current GiftFic Docket

This is why I'm a little stretched just now. :grins:

• Short Story: “Justice” for thecatisacritic
• Novel: One Good Storm with thecatisacritic
• Short Story: “Everything is Blood” for lithiumlaughter
• Novel-in-Verse: Blank Verse for lithiumlaughter
• Novelette: Fault Lines for Couples Big Bang
• Meta: Science article series for thecatisacritic

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The 2014 First Quarter Report

This entry is part 83 of 83 in the series Daily Scribble Reports

About those challenges…

The seven-sentence challenge with the goal of daily production went by way of Sandusky. I don’t know that I’ll get back to it.

The publication challenge on the other hand:

Songs from the Dust

So the poetry collection is published book two for the year. (I’m supposed to be at three, so I’m not quite as far behind as I think, though I still have to wrap up the lagging Kindle and mass market version of Dowse and Bleed. Createspace printed most of the white letters on the back cover in black, with the exception of certain random ones.)

Lithiumlaughter is my poetry ally. She has inspired a lot of my stuff by her own favorites among my poems and those of others.

Currently, the most complex poem I have written to date is “Five Reasons I Love You.” There is a definite stanza scheme, a definite and careful choice about every line break and every stanza break, every bit of punctuation. I wrote in multiple meanings to the whole thing and even though it doesn’t rhyme and doesn’t have a defined metrical scheme, it has a very defined rhythm and plays carefully with the specific concepts being mined. Perhaps that’s one of the reasons it’s among my favorites. It means something different but also true if you read it according to the punctuation, or if you read it according to the line breaks, or if you read it according to the stanza breaks.

It was also written a single beautiful rush. I’m starting to like the epic poems that do that. “History Lesson on the Night Train” started the trend, then along came “Queen of Heaven” and “Five Reasons,” then “The Bringing of Light” and finally “Name You.” There’s something about these poems and what it did to me to write them. I’m really excited about how the collection came together and hope to have it out to the world soon.

Daily Scribbling

You may have noticed I’ve gone to daily tracking and irregular reporting. It works better for me because I’m writing and publishing on three different devices with different limitations and drawbacks.

In new words produced, I noticed that my fiction numbers were best in January, then dropped in February and rose slightly in March. Poetry rose slightly in February, then went crazy in March.

In completed words, I’ve solely produced fanfic and poetry this year (bummer), but steadily more each month. The method works, in other words, but I’m not entirely happy with the lack of original fiction work getting finished. Worked on is great, but finished is necessary. Going to try to correct that despite my Big Bang coming up.

Monthly Reading

January and February went swimmingly. March was a non-starter. I’m moving next month. I spent a lot of money at Costco the other day that I wasn’t intending to and bought some books. We’ll see when I actually have time to read them. :rolls eyes: They come after in_the_blue’s new fic. I don’t think I really read anything this last month at all that counted.

I need to file an extension on my taxes too. :headdesk:

Plans

Get. more. disciplined. Finish something to publication. Finish fiction. Get my taxes taken care of. Consider picking up a book to read now and again, huh?

I always want to put giftfic first, but that doesn’t always work best. I’m considering how best to remedy that. I’m considering what to do when I hit up the collaborative novel again. I’m considering whether to read first because I want to check things off, not just make progress.

That’s the 2014 First Quarter Report.

How have you done for the first 1/4th of the year?

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Headspace

This entry is part 84 of 84 in the series Daily Scribble Reports

April 1, 2014

So I got out my catch-up post before 9 a.m. and also got my proof reviewed for my grandparents’ gift and the book submitted for lithiumlaughter’s. My new cover upload last night apparently didn’t take, so I’ll have to do it at home tonight. This is starting to get headachesome.

Fandom

My new AO3 drafting process: I don’t like the expiration on drafting a WIP on AO3 or the inability to really preview all chapters of a multi-chaptered draft, so I found a workaround. Create a WIP collection that is (Closed, Moderated, Unrevealed, Anonymous). Post fic to the collection.

Poetry

I have come to a conclusion. Poetry carves headspace in my mind. It opens the doors that have gotten shut and blows down the walls of the maze I raise for fiction. Sometimes I just desperately need the room to breathe.

Just wrote a poem because my headspace fresh off of poetry just got kinda cluttered and I’m feeling tense again.

And there went another one at the oddest of moments. Make that two.

Will edit this post tomorrow if I write any more tonight.

Word Counts

• Poetry: 35 lines | 274 words
• Blog: 836 words

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