9 to 5 Poet

Pretty productive week, even with the wrap up of NaBloPoMo.

850 words. 1 poem, 1 haiku and 1 revision.

30452 for the week.

Edit on Tuesday, December 4: That should read 30452 for the year. I’m not that cool.

Starting this week, I will be tallying my word counts in my sidebar, so that I don’t have mistakes like that anymore.

No writing for me this week. I ate lots of turkey and rented lots of movies instead.
That’s called refilling the well and it’s delicious.

I remain at 29,602 for the year.

Not a bad week overall, now that I’m sitting on a finished article. Whew!

853 for the article
100 for some minor revisions to old poems
250 for half of a completed poem for read. write. poem

For the year, I’ve got 29,602. Now I can go see a movie and clean the house!

Not as stellar as a week. Only 100 for the haiku. But I’m hanging in there with NaBloPoMo, so I’m happy.

29252 for the year.

Still trucking along…I wrote 691 words for an article for Poetic Monthly and a poem based off of a Totally Optional Prompts prompt, which brings my weekly total to 1191.

29152 for the year.

And that’s not even including NaBloPoMo….

This was an awesome writing week. I wrote my scary story for the annual Halloween party last night, which was 1461 words, and a poem for Totally Optional Prompts. All told, I wrote 1961 this week, which brings my total to 28461 for the year.

I’m trucking along…

This week I wrote an article for the Uptown Neighborhood News — 909 words. Other than that, I’ve been working on getting Asphalt Sky up and running. I plan on getting back to Writers Island and Totally Optional Prompts this week — they both have really good prompts for the week.

Until then, 26500 for the year.

Another smashing week for poetry. Thanks to the two new prompt sites that have risen out of the ashes of Poetry Thursday, the lovely month and a half old Writers Island and the new and wonderful Totally Optional Prompts, I have written two poems this week. I also did a little revising.

So all combined, I have 1025 for the week. This brings my yearly total to 25,591.

The problem is that I’m engaging in a little (a lot) of procrastination. I have an article due by October 18 to the Uptown Neighborhood News that I avoided writing yesterday. I also would like to write another article/post at Woman Tribune. (I even have an idea.) And I just joined the staff of Poetic Monthly, so I have an article due by the end of the month.(I also have an idea for that one, too.) Last but not least on the procrastination celebration, a good friend of mine hosts a Halloween party each year where we have a scary story contest. This will be my third year, and I have yet to win. My scary story is in my head, where it can’t remain for very long, or it will stop being scary and start being “scary.”

If I don’t surface this week, it’s because I’m writing articles and scary stories as fast as I can.

This has been an excellent writing week.

In the poetry realm, I have written two poems this week, one for the wonderful Writers Island and the other for the now sadly defunct Traveling Poetry Show/Poetry Thursday. 1000 words for poetry.

Then, I found a new website that I just love, called Woman Tribune. It was started up by Holly at Menstrual Poetry and Amanda at Pajama Mommy as a forum for feminism and women’s issues. She was looking for volunteers, so I signed up. You can see my first post pretty soon, so check it out. Since I plan on contributing there about once a week, I’ll leave a little sidebar widget for all of my articles. At any rate, I wrote 590 for them.

That brings my total to a whopping 1590 for the week. 24,566 for the year.

Writing is fun, when it goes well.

Nada. Zip. Zero. But, I have a good excuse.

I remain at 22,976 for the year.