Including a one act play

Here is a play that I wrote that I will be including in the book

http://paulyhart.blogspot.com/2013/07/for-mafeking-and-queen-play-by-pauly.html

Finished stories vs. Unfinished stories - Word counts

Worked for a while on my short story book. Hoping to get it out by Christmas.

Almost 39,000 words and counting in the "Done" section from a total of twenty six stories.

In the "Not Done" section, there is another scenario to be seen. It is, at this time, half the stories, but many of them are getting longer and longer as I go on an on. In all thirteen stories there are already 20,200 words... But it will grow.

Thirty nine stories is nothing to sneeze at. With the total at a little over 59,000 words, it should shape up to be a pretty substantial book of stories.

rewriting a rock opera

my original intention for the piece i am working on now was to be a rock opera.

i had shown it to my buddy john conrad and had even recorded several of the key songs for the opera while i was a third shift baker.

but...

i don't think i will do that.

instead i am going to make it into another novelette for the book. i am already at 4,337 words and even the skeleton looks shaky.

it's a really powerful story though.

if done well, this will be one of the highlights of the book.

Halfway

It's a dusty day and the sun is low.

Pow! Pow!

Gunshots.

Somewhere, a baby screams.

The smoke stings my nose.

Before me lies twenty three stories.

In the distance... Hoofbeats.

Twenty more.

The book is halfway done.

Editing and Writing tonight

Often, I feel that I cannot go on with my writing career if I have to edit.

That's bologna. It's called perseverance and we all have it.

I just have to dig into mine and take a chunk... EAT IT... And continue on.

So I have today.

I banged out four thousand words tonight since I got home around four.

Kinda feeling tired and my fingers hurt.

Go Book Go!

Woohoo!

One of my main novelettes is almost there!

I need to fix some sentence structure, but it's looking good so far!

23? 40?

Twenty three short stories being edited all at once is a little much... Even for me. The good news is that there will be around forty in the finished book!