State of my Writing: Current Catalogue of Writing
My friend began a project over 200 days ago. His goal is to write a blog post a day about an album he has never listened to before. Which means, he has listened to over 200 albums and written over 200 blog posts this year alone. After he cleared that goal, I thought to myself: what are the number of projects I’ve completed. Fun fact, I haven’t posted up about some of my projects: the screen play I wrote with two of my friends (one being the person who is doing the album blog I mentioned above, we call ourselves the Three Idiots), and a podcast thing (my co-host is also the person who is writing the blog on albums, the occasional guest is the third idiot from the screenplay) we are building a backlog (we haven’t released any yet). So at the time, I have manuscripts, short stories, a podcast, and screenplay. Furthermore, I sometimes get down on myself because I have a lot of things that have been cooked but not sold (aka everything). So, today, I am taking this blog post to flaunt my output (some things are works in progress, and a lot of them are in a forever state of revisions but being submitted to places).
Below, the total amount of words sums to 627,957 sans the blog posts (all word counts taken at the point of writing this blog – manuscripts, short stories not on the website, and short stories on the website).
- Manuscripts in order of being written (Total Words – 491,666)
- Primo Capite and the Others – 121,903 Words
- Journey to God – 72,785 Words
- Tesla’s Travels – 72,183 Words
- BlackBox Enterprises – 64,171 Words
- Ashley Pépin’s Mistake (Novella) – 23,266 Words
- Bhor’s Bathos – 106,725 Words
- WT (working title) | Gaia’s Revenge (Novella) – 19,219 (ending pending – not complete)
- Unnamed Manuscript 8 – 11,414 Words (still in progress)
- Short Stories (Total Words – 136,291)
- Not on Website (Total Words – 64,290)
- Unnamed Short Story: Job Interview – 5,697 Words (still being written, may exceed 8,000 Words)
- Unnamed Short Story: AI Project – 5,137 Words (in revisions)
- Unnamed Short Story: The Store – 3,824 Words (submitted to literary magazine) (6/22/2017)
- Stephanie Bourbon’s Lament – 1,028 Words
- 1352 MPH – 2,750 Words (3/26/2017)
- WT (working title) 9A3C – 1,313 Words (3/8/2017)
- Suburban Radicalization – 10,042 Words (2/27/2017)
- Multiplying Secrets – 5,598 Words (10/23/2016)
- Two Brains – 7,634 Words (10/18/2016)
- Filling Gaps – 3,454 Words (10/9/2016)
- Purifying the Past (two versions) – 330 Words | 410 Words (7/31/2016)
- Lamentable Climax – 498 Words (7/31/2016)
- Cherries and Blueberries – 425 Words (7/31/2016)
- Morning Glory – 494 Words (7/26/2016)
- Extrinsic Entrapment – 515 Words (2/24/2016)
- It is all Piss in the End – 500 Words (2/9/2016)
- Regulars, Parties, and High Life – 500 Words (2/9/2016)
- Twenty Two Fifty – 491 Words (2/8/2016)
- Stuck in a Loop – 2,708 Words (1/29/2016)
- Adding Inventory – 2,987 Words (10/5/2015)
- Exciting Work – 2,280 Words (8/11/2015)
- Trappist – 5,675 Words (8/5/2015)
- On Website (Going through these for this project, the works here are unrecognizable compared to what I haven’t posted (Total Words – 72,001))
- Normal Fiction (Total Words – 65,160)
- Biases – 3,105 Words (4/14/2015)
- Oliver the Orc and the Search for the Perfect Beignet – 1,299 Words
- Franks Slipstream – 2,612 Words
- Better than a Ream of Paper – 2,730 Words
- Like Laika – 4,411 Words
- Precarious Air – 2,721 Words
- Relationships – 1,212 Words
- Solution – 1,894 Words
- Last Will and Testament – 1,975 Words
- Similarities – 2,204 Words
- Redirect – 2,091 Words
- House of Bourbon – 1,476 Words
- Time – 2,219 Words
- Love – 835 Words
- Another Day – 5,074 Words
- Hope – 3,723 Words
- Gopple – 3,864 Words
- The Bohr’s Protocol – 8,344 Words (inspired Tesla’s Travels and Bohr’s Bathos – though the writing doesn’t, and the plot drastically was modified during writing)
- Clouds of Fire – 1,129 Words (Chapter 1 of a failed manuscript)
- Love’s Warrior – 3,331 Words
- The Fantastic Mister Mittens – 3,706 Words
- Tis and Orange – 1,874 Words
- Proverbial White Whale – 3,331 Words (Best assumed date for completion: January 16, 2013 | First short story posted to website)
- Flash Fiction (Total Words – 6,841)
- Please, Don’t Recycle – 449 Words
- A Little Vanilla – 499 Words
- Family Matters – 482 Words
- Allure – 965 Words
- Two Snakes – 799 Words
- Medallion – 493 Words
- Dipper – 1,000 Words
- Carbonation – 464 Words
- Arm and I – 499 Words
- Drops in an Ocean – 440 Words
- Cookies – 751 Words
- Normal Fiction (Total Words – 65,160)
- Not on Website (Total Words – 64,290)
- Blog Post – 151 posts
- Podcasts – 16 Episodes at an hour an episode (3 book podcasts – Nueromancer, Wolf in White Van, and The Crying on Lot 49)
- Screen Play – Final pass in September when the Three Idiots ride again.
A Week of Productivity
Over the last seven days, I’ve written three short stories that comes to a total of roughly 15,000 words. Some of these have working titles, but the three pieces are: Two Brains ~7,000 words, Filling Gaps 3,399 exactly (it is for a competition that only allows 3,400 words), and Multiplying Secrets ~5,000 words. All three are different than my traditional short fiction, due to the fact that I applied my manuscript writing style to them. This means, each one was heavily outlined, had a specific flow, and had research behind it. A traditional short story for me was a way to workout different mechanisms, technique, and narration to better my manuscripts. After four years of writing short stories with their goal of being experimentation, I have decided to apply what I’ve learned to the next batch and see what I can get published. All three are strong and have been sent out to trusted sources for review. One, Two Brains, is actually in the universe of my some of my manuscripts and is mostly prepped to be sent to a magazine. The other two are still going through the “chute” to be reviewed, commented on, and edited.
Read MoreSimilarities
It is about time that I focused on another short story. This time, I have chosen Similarities. Similarities is a piece that was designed around trying to write two separate narrators in a single piece. What I wanted was two points of view that were third person and describing two separate events. The experiment here would eventually go on and be fully fleshed out in Death by Comedy – my fifth manuscript – where I use five narrators to tell a story. While the voices in this piece are very similar, Death by Comedy experiences five unique voices with five completely different backgrounds. In this piece, there is also an underlying criticism which is explained below.
Read MoreRedirect
Today, I will be highlighting Redirect. I remember working on this piece because the piece just didn’t seem possible. It took three rewrites to get it to where it is on the website, and I am not even sure if it truly does what it needs to do for the reader. Personally, after rereading it, I think it hit home more than I originally thought. Sometimes, my shorty work appears preachy to me, and I wanted this to be more subtle – I don’t think I hit the subtle parts very well. However, there is some throwbacks to other works and naming styles. For more info on the piece, continue reading but it will be semi full of spoilers. I suggest you read the piece then check out the explanation: Click me for Redirect.
Read MoreHouse of Bourbon
House of Bourbon was the first of my experimental pieces. The following chronological piece – which is still in review for a contest – Three Pills, took what I was testing in this piece to the next level. All of the work in House of Bourbon and Three Pills became vital to me during Tesla’s Travels, where I utilized what I had learned through these pieces to drive home a fundamental sub plot of the manuscript. I don’t want to give much away, so here is the link: House of Bourbon. If you are interested in more details about the piece, continue reading, but you need to understand that the following is full of explanation.
Read MoreThree “New” Flash Fiction Pieces
Oh happy days! There are three new short stories – flash fiction – available on the website. These additions were part of a contest with the Harvard Book Store and were written in a single sitting. I have my personal favorite, but I will not share which one that is with you. As I have been busy, I am hoping to take sometime soon to deploy a massive backlog of short stories (most of which I find lacking my newest style). Either way, please enjoy the new pieces in the flash fiction section. The three new pieces are: Please, Don’t Recycle, A Little Vanilla, and Family Matters. Is it my best work? No idea, I am a novelist who writes short stories for practice and experimentation. I enjoy them; I hope you do too.
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