My Season
starting count: 127
ending count: 113
gain/loss: -14

Actual (processed) word count: 127

Restless
starting count: 51
ending count: 57
gain/loss: +6

Actual (processed) word count: 57

Soured Meat
starting count: 69
ending count: 68
gain/loss: -1

Actual (processed) word count: 69 Total (processed) word count ( Read more... )

Not among my original goals for the week, but I saw a publication with poetry openings so I decided to revise and send. We'll see how it does. Here's the word count:

"Dragon Dreams" revision
starting count: 201
ending count: 200
gain/loss: -1

Actual (processed) word count: 201 That really doesn't tell much on the actual revision this ( Read more... )

"Essence" poem
starting count: 79
ending count: 81
gain/loss: +2

Actual (processed) word count: 81 Hopefully will get to the chapter and the article tonight when I get home, but we're expecting more storms so I'm not holding my breath. Still, the poem is something, and I think I'm happier with it than I have been ( Read more... )

Worked Out
starting count: 155
ending count: 136
gain/loss: -19

Too Much
starting count: 79
ending count: 77
gain/loss: -2

Actual (processed) word count: 234 Only 2 out of the 3 I was planning to get to--#3 needs to percolate a bit, I think. But not now. Now I crawl into bed for a bit and try to deal with this damn cold that snuck up on ( Read more... )

Catnap
starting count: 56
ending count: 51
gain/loss: -5

Political Statement
starting count: 134
ending count: 120
gain/loss: -14

She's Grown
starting count: 104
ending count: 90
gain/loss: -14

For the Children
starting count: 118
ending count: 119
gain/loss: +1

Actual (processed) word count: 413 Have 3 more to revise. Hopefully I' ( Read more... )

Catnap
starting count: 0
ending count: 56
gain/loss: 56

For the Children
starting count: 0
ending count: 118
gain/loss: 118

She's Grown
starting count: 0
ending count: 104
gain/loss: 104

Worked Out
starting count: 0
ending count: 155
gain/loss: 155

Actual (processed) word count: 433

Poetry Collection v4
starting count: 555
ending count: 598
gain/loss: +43

Actual (processed) word count: 598

A collection of 5 poems that I liked until I started revising them for publication. Now they just drive me crazy. :P

Posted them to DII. Leaving them alone for a long while.

Did a revision I didn't report and just finished the first Metawriting in ages . . .

"Dragon Dreams" revision
starting count: 203
ending count: 201
gain/loss: -2

Actual (processed) word count: 203

Metawriting article
starting count: 0
ending count: 581
gain/loss: +581

Actual (processed) word count: 581

Total count: 784

2 poems . . .

"Essence" revision
starting count: 89
ending count: 79
gain/loss: -10

"Too Much" revision
starting count: 79
ending count: 79
gain/loss: 0

Actual (processed) word count: 168

Another poem - this one kinda a fantasy type of thing, though one of my critters read something far deeper, and far cooler, than that in it. Anyway, revised, a little, and posted to my critter group again.

starting count: 210
ending count: 203
gain/loss: -7