I and many tens of thousands of writers have stopped using Google Blogger since it changed its style giving a mess which is a fading shaddow of its former self. However, I am writing today bringing my 2021 writing project upto date and formally laying out what I have thus far achieved.Yesterday I published nook
number twenty-two on Amazon – DAVE’S POETRY VOLUME TWO. This now brings my
total to twenty-two. Barbra Cartland’s world record stands at twenty-three, I
am now one short of that record. My target is to publish twenty-four works. I
think I need to upwardly change my target. Would fifty publications be too
ambitious ?
Keeping a daily running
total of the words I write I have added everything up to 582,004 words but
checking everything out month by month and book by book I have written 612,413
words – that is an average of 5,567 words a day. Multiply by 365 days =
2,031,955 words. Obviously I need to up my original challenge from one million
words.
The challenge I have set myself
is to publish 24 e-books on Amazon within which I wrap one million words. When
I hit three quarters of a million words which at tis rate will be 14th
May that is when I will revise my target.
Top selling authors on Amazon
earn in excess of £250,000 a month. I am not a top selling writer and while to
be such would be nice that is not my ambition. My ambition is to become the mot
prolific writer on Amazon and to have such recorded in The Guinness Book of
Records.
Assuming my adding up is
correct this is the status quo:
JANUARY 2021
The
Retro Eighties – 22,328
L’Escargot
Albert – 12,981
Aliens
In Time – 11,190
In
Search Of The Leons – 24,716
Jukebox
Jury – 22,402
Dave’s
Diary – 38,853
Milton
Keynes A Disco For A New City – 8,883
TOTAL BOOKS 7 - WORDS 141,353
FEBRUARY 2021
By
The Pricking Of My Thumbs – 13,193
Behind
The Noose Or Not – 28,648
The
Secret Diary Of An Old Man Age Thirteen And Three Quarters – 14,297
Down
And Out In Milton Dreams – 12,814
Poets
Corner – 36,823
Dave’s
Diary – 34,201
A
Staircase Of Words – 16,437
TOTAL BOOKS 7 - WORDS 156,413
MARCH 2021
If
Music Be The Food Of Love Play On – 7,800
This
House Believes – 6,755
Dave’s
Poems - 9,221
Interviews
In Time - 18,344
Who
Needs A Pub To Have A Quiz - 35,030
Destiny’s
Servant - 20,582
Dave’s
Diary - 53,514
TOTAL BOOKS 7 - WORDS: 151,246
APRIL 2021
Dave’s
Poetry Two – 7,853
TOTAL NOOKS 1 – WORDS: 7,853
CURRENT PROJECS
Fires
Of Hell – 4,200
Almanac
Of Smiles – 26,948
MIT
Case Files – 21,395
Dave’s
Diary – 58,366
4 books – 110,909 words
PENDING:
Poets
Corner Two – 22,712
Poets
Corner Three – 21,927
2 books - 44,639
WORDS: 612,413 GRAND TOTAL – 22 books
Rating books 0 to 5 stars myself I would award:
The
Retro Eighties ***
L’Escargot
Albert **
Aliens
In Time*
In
Search Of The Leons*****
Jukebox
Jury***
Dave’s
Diary*
Milton
Keynes A Disco For A New City***
By
The Pricking Of My Thumbs**
Behind
The Noose Or Not ***
The
Secret Diary Of An Old Man Age Thirteen And Three Quarters***
Down
And Out In Milton Dreams****
Poets
Corner****
Dave’s
Diary *
A
Staircase Of Words**
If
Music Be The Food Of Love Play On***
This
House Believes***
Dave’s
Poems****
Interviews
In Time****
Who
Needs A Pub To Have A Quiz***
Destiny’s
Servant***
Dave’s
Diary *
Dave’s
Poetry Two****
I have to
confess that at times the writing has been a bit tedious and a chore but right
now I am really on a high ! Writing my
crime fiction novel MIT CASE FILES I just can not get the ideas out of my head
and into text fast enough.
Agatha
Christie is the world’s highest selling author. That said I do not like her
work ! her characters are ridiculous and
are not developed throughout the stories, the most unlikely plots do not change
them. Those plots are nothing at all like real policing. To top it all Agatha
Christie wrote for money, she was a factory production line writer.
It was in
2071 that I put out a survey asking what people considered their favourite
genre of reading. The answer came back
CRIME FICTION. I had never attempted
this but sat down and wrote
THE CASE FILES OF DAVE McDERMOTT. I have to say I
really enjoyed the writing, I believe it is very different with the detective
empathising with the murderer and using this as a way to help find the killer.
That book was published on 9
th March 2017. I followed it up with another
case
THE LOTTERY OF EVIL on 31
st March 2020. Within this present
challenge I published
BY THE PRICKING OF MY THUMBS – THE DIARY OF A SERIAL
KILLER on 3
rd February 2021. Again the style of writing is my own
and not a replication of the whodoneit usual crime fiction.
For MIT
CASE FILES I am writing the book in a way I suspect no other author has ever
done. These are the chapters, each on a separate case in its own right:
1. A VERY
BRITISH ASSASSINATION
2.
THE FOOD BANK POISONER
3. RALPH’S
TENT
4. THE
LONE RANGER
5. OPERATION
LETTUCE LEAF
6. ANGELS
OF THE ANTI-CHRIST
7. EVIL’S
REVENGE
8. SINS
OF THE FATHERS
9.
AN INVESTIGATION TOO FAR
I need to
come up with another idea so giving the book a nice round ten chapters.
I am
working on all chapters simultaneously, dipping in an out of each as the mood
takes me and ideas flow. So far I have written 21,399 words and expect the book
to finish up around 70,000 words. I would like to think it will be finished by
the end of the month but somehow I doubt it. I do not want to rush it
Crime
fiction centres around murder and some of my stories within MIT CASE FILES are
murders but I have deliberately delved into other areas.
THE LONE
RANGER does not have a single death within it. Initially it appears to be
terrorist related but terrorists kill while the criminals here deliberately avoid
harming anyone.
OPERATION
LETTUCE LEAF is entirely about cannabis farming, not a murder anywhere in
sight.
So many
real murders are drug related and yes such feature within my chapters but not
in THE FOOD BANK POISONER, SINS OF THE FATHERS and a VERY BRITISH
ASSASSINATION. Drugs are very much on the side of RALPH’S TENT.
Anyway
that’s a summary of my writing challenge so far – Wednesday 21st
April 2021 – 110 days into the 365 day challenge.
