On waking, the moaning which had kept her awake in to the early hours, had ceased.
In its place were noises of an average morning in the neighbourhood – dogs barking, mopeds sputtering up one way-streets against the arrows, a distant knocking of nails into wood on an unrestricted building site and the faint swish of traffic on the main road a few miles away.
She could smell the air was different. Seagulls cawed and screeched their agreement as they waited on surprisingly supportive upright yellow legs for fishermen to arrange their nets for the day.
Smaller birds sprinkled palm trees with a chattering which became louder when she focused on it.
Then it started. The pitiful moan, almost inaudible if you’d not heard it before.
But Lara had shuddered for hours under only a sheet in the heat while desiring the coziness of a duvet.
The distinct slap of human hand sliced the air and even the birds became momentarily silenced. A woman’s gasp cut short and Lara’s heart lurched in her chest.
She held her breath and waited. Something horrible was happening. Nearby.
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Morning my lovelies!! Now, why, when I am presented with these beautiful sites on the first morning of my mini break in Spain, do I come up with a piece of flash fiction evidently going into the dark depths once again 😂. oooh, I just love subjects like that.
However, what I am really here to do is progress my manuscript. I feel prepared;
My laptop was on charge all night.
I have my critique report through which I am working.
I made notes last week for new chapters so I have bare bones to work from that the Reader who produced the critique hasn’t even seen
I want to be true to YOU and show you I can progress this thing.
Happy typing and creative writing all of you fiction writing buddies 🖌
Let’s make a pact here and now – to encourage each other between now and Monday lunchtime when I have to leave, to have increased our wordcount 🥂
Your wordcount or your life? I jest. Obviously.
My wordcount now is: 25,207
Tell me in comments what your present wordcount is and where you’d like it to go in four days?
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I challenge you to a wordcount update;
Mike2all a blogger who is reinventing his brilliant fiction born some years ago, now with the hindsight of more life lived, more miles cycled and mental health studied .. I love this man’s writing 👏🏼
JonBeckett a travelling family man and a writer with a passion for fiction. Great tone in his posts, I know I’m going to enjoy what he creates.
Joseph Beech a blogger with an intriguing mind, creating fiction from a science-based world where he works but is often found to be thinking outside the box 📦
ALittleBookProblem a book reviewer who is also writing fiction 🖌
A chilling piece that – just when you thought it might have all been over. WIP finished at 66,000, now into editing mode.
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That’s awesome – I’m inspired by you!
I also attended a first of six workshops, one a month, and we set ourselves goals. On paper. To be accountable by the final meeting.
My goal is another 60,000 words .. so ten thousand each month; that makes 2,500 per week in my book? 🤗
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Nothing like a deadline to enforce productivity 🙂
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Exactly!! 👏🏼
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My mother and father have been on vacation in Lake Tahoe, I took Thursday Friday and Monday off, my sister brother and I took a plane from Seattle to San Jose waited for 4 hours in San Jose and took another flight to Reno and from Reno we drove to Lake Tahoe and surprised the parents, looks like we’re both on a small vacation.
MY PRESENT WORD COUNT IS 0 I CAN ONLY GET BETTER FROM HERE !! 😂😂😂😂😂
Ill aim to write a bit every night ! plus I alraedy pinky sweared to my readers that I would be posting something every other week
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Wait hold on is my word count to cumulative amount of words I’ve written this year?
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*the cumulative
How do find out what my word count is?
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There should be a title within the stats page which when you scroll down will give you automatic feedback for 2018 on wordpress.
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Originally I was thinking a piece of ongoing fiction, but that’s only because it’s how I want to play wordcount this weekend 🤣 (and, actually, I’ve deleted so many unnecessary scenes today I’ve actually lost words! But I was like .. “who the hell are YOU? Get out of my book.. your story adds nothing!!”
You can have accumulative if you like … Jon was certainly blown away by the stats when he looked at blogging last year and this.
We are a talkative bunch aren’t we 😂🥂
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You did!! I recall 🤗
Have a fabulous time .., what did the parents think of you guys surprising them? That’s seriously cute
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Many thanks viloa, They were cheerfully exited! my mother got teary eyed gave me great hug and emidiatly remarked ” You look awfully skinny are you eating enough?” ….I haven’t felt more self depricatingly american than today , I had a hot dog for lunch , a buger mid afternoon pizza for dinner , and an inordinate amount of sugar. BREAKING EVERY SINGLE DIETERY GUIDELINE THAT I FOLLOW 🤦♂️😩 On the plus side I visited where Mark Twain began wrting maybe being in the same space he inhabited will bring me literary invigoration 😂😁
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That’s amazing – what a day 👌🏼💫🖌
Mothers do that sort of thing; they can’t stop themselves!! 🤣
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Nice compliment. Many thanks. You are a star yourself.
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I’ll take that today … 💫 … in case you change your mind when you read my work 🤣🙈
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Thankyou for the shout-out! I’m not actively working on a writing project, but I suppose the blog posts count. I write nearly every day (or every other day at the moment), but only write a few hundred words for each post. Of course now you’re challenge is going to be there at the back of my mind, encouraging me to empty my head spectacularly 🙂
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Of course blog posts count 👌🏼💫
I’ve blogged over 120,000 words since January .. so either I’ve a lot to waffle on about or my writing mind is getting up to speed.
I rather like the latter ☺️
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I just did a bit of nerding with the backup of my blog (I write in a text editor) – last year I wrote 160,000 words – this year so far I have written 101,000 words 🙂
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😍 isn’t it amazing.
If we didn’t blog, where would all those thought processes go?!!
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Minor setback…. hand surgery! Unable to write for at least four days. Dominant hand! No worries… minor repair. Enjoy reading your fiction!!!! Frightening piece, this morning…. ! Write on! 👍
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Oh deary me Patty, how did you manage that 😞
Take care of it and get back writing soon x
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My current word count is 59,357. Would like to make it to 60,000 in my next draft.
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👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
You can DO that over next three days 🥂
We will check in again (I’ve done 200 so far this morning, then daughter woke up and we are now talking about life!)
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