A Writing Update and Results from Writing Every Day in April

That's me sitting in the pool drinking a Dirty Monkey. Oh man they're good! I've been gone for a week in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico with my lovely wife celebrating our 10 year wedding anniversary! I didn't have a chance to write up any blog posts, but I'm back and it's time for a nice big update. I had some pretty good writing days on our trip, tapping away with my thumbs on my iPhone. On 5/1/17 I wrote 1,960 words on my phone, and on the 3rd I wrote 818, and finally 1,533 words on the fourth. We headed back the next day.

My manuscript is currently at 59,638 words and I'm calling the first draft done even though I still need to write the last chapter. Let me explain. While over halfway through writing the first draft I realized I needed to change the mentor character into the love interest as well. This means changing the character from a dude to a lady and doing a bit of work on their relationship throughout the story. I'm not really sure where it will end up but once I know that I'll know what the last chapter needs to be.

So, I finished the first draft of "Haunted House Flipper!" I plan on going back through it now while it's somewhat fresh to rewrite little bits with those two love birds and their character reactions. I might not end up changing much because as it stands now they're still just friends at the end of the book. It might take some beta readers to let me know if that is a letdown or not. Either way, I will get this book cleaned up and published sometime this year. Once I finish the illustrations for my children's chapter book that one will be ready to publish too! After that I'm over halfway done writing my novel "Zombie Super Powers" and I have a completed Science Fiction novel called "We're Moving to Space" that needs a huge plot overhaul to fix the pacing. So let's see how many books I can publish this year! It will be at least two. Hopefully 3 or 4! I better get on it. Thanks for stopping by, and check out the data from my Writing Every Day in April below in a nice table and graph:

Here's a table showing how I did writing every day in April:

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Date	Daily Word Count	Total Word Count	Average Word Count
4/1	69	69	508.4
4/2	14	83
4/3	917	1000
4/4	347	1347
4/5	429	1776
4/6	874	2650
4/7	446	3096
4/8	725	3821
4/9	290	4111
4/10	996	5107
4/11	1069	6176
4/12	535	6711
4/13	382	7093
4/14	877	7970
4/15	0	7970
4/16	366	8336
4/17	967	9303
4/18	726	10029
4/19	631	10660
4/20	283	10943
4/21	434	11377
4/22	112	11489
4/23	618	12107
4/24	86	12193
4/25	1492	13685
4/26	316	14001
4/27	33	14034
4/28	258	14292
4/29	213	14505
4/30	747	15252

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Here's a nice little graph: