I was behind on my 2024 words per day in June for all but three days. Those days would be June 1, 29, and 30. Those last two days were marathon days, both over five thousand words. I finished a novella and two shourt stories last weekend. It was exhilarating but exhausting.

So I managed to end the month with an average of 2185 words per day.

I’m still behind on the year, but that will help me catch up. I need to add a apge in the spreadsheet where I’m tracking all of this that will calculate the average for the year in addition to the individual pages for each month.

I also finished three ot her short stories.  All of the stories have been submitted to an anthology project I mentioned in a previous post. The anthology themes ahve been ghosts and taverns, cozy mystery, military science fiction, and Regency fantasy. I’ve got a mystery science fiction storyo to write this week. Next week will be a Halloween themed anthology.

The two challenging stories were the cozy mystery because I don’t read  any of them. It had to be set at a beach of some sort, which made it a little more challenging.

The big challenge, though, was the Regency fantasy. Regency is a huge subgenre of romance, although the editor’s video said rmonace didn’t have to be present as long as the focus was on relationships. I did my best, but I cheated a little. I had my protagonist being taken from our world to a Regency that never existed.

We’ll see what the editor said.

I did enjoy writing outside my comfort zone. It was fun. Stressful, but fun. If nothing else, if forced me to stretch myself as a writer, and to do it under deadline.