So, I’m trying my hand at stories again. My goal for the year is to finish one regular short story per month – ‘regular’ being defined by the SFWA’s definition of a short coming in at 7500 words or less. About a year or so ago, when I first started poking around with actually writing stories (as opposed to just thinking about writing them), I used to think writers set their daily goals very low.

“A thousand words a day? No problems,” I thought. “Hell, I can write a thousand words in an hour, and I can’t even touch-type!”

A little experimentation soon brought home the need for such realistic figures – that thousand words a day doesn’t count the ones you type and then discard as being unutterable tripe. And I’m pretty positive an experienced writer trashes a far smaller percentage of their work than I am doing at the moment …

Still, I’m soldiering on, despite the derailment of the computer failures, and I reckon I can get this current project done by the end of the month. Whether it’ll be worth the memory it’s saved in is another question. But ‘finish what you start’ is a bit of advice I’ve heard countless times, so I’ll try to hold off beating myself up over the quality until I have the quantity sorted. Two decent evenings of work puts me here:

1,001 / 7,500 (13.3%)

Wish me luck. I need all the help I can get!

Oh, blogging will probably be sparse to non-existent tomorrow, as I’m off to a gig with some friends tonight and may get home quite late. Take care …