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:
In
Search Of The Leons – 24,716
Milton
Keynes A Disco For A New City – 8,883
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
If
Music Be The Food Of Love Play On – 7,800
Who
Needs A Pub To Have A Quiz - 35,030
TOTAL BOOKS 7 - WORDS: 151,246
WORDS: 612,413 GRAND TOTAL – 22 books
Rating books 0 to 5 stars myself I would award:
Milton
Keynes A Disco For A New City***
By
The Pricking Of My Thumbs**
The
Secret Diary Of An Old Man Age Thirteen And Three Quarters***
Down
And Out In Milton Dreams****
If
Music Be The Food Of Love Play On***
Who
Needs A Pub To Have A Quiz***
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.
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
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.
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