As I try to do most Saturdays, I ran over to the library and sat down to do some writing. Okay, I always sit down to surf the internet--there's the priority, boys and girls--but I usually try to get writing in there too. Today, still without a new writing project in mind, I emailed myself two documents: a short story I wrote in 2017 called "Radio Ga Ga" (ugh), and my lil novella "My Friend of Misery." The plan was to open one of them, go through patching holes, and see where that gets me.
I chose "Radio Ga Ga" (sorry), and went through it line by line, in an attempt to fix its mistakes and/or make it better. I wrote that story for a Broken Mirror pseudocontest, but thought that maybe I'd run it on the Rish Outcast, since I currently have no story episodes to edit. I discovered quite a few typos (no wonder I didn't win), and a story that may not be good enough to run on the Outcast. But there's something to be learned, even from stories that turned out no-so-good*, so I'm pretty sure I'll still run it on the show, and probably soon.
Speaking of that, though, it was the only writing I did, and how do you count rewriting in a word count? Well, I guess I will take the word count of the original version of "Radio Ga Ga" (yikes), and subtract that from the rewrite's wordcount (dunno how else to do it). It ain't a lot, but I also created this logo for my daily bullcrap:
Words Today: 245
April Total: 8,595
Words Total: 31,949
*If we ever do another Dunesteef episode, it's gonna be about a sketch I produced last year that just plain didn't work. Afterward, Big and I would ask the musical question, "What do you do if it just ain't funny?" Even though I don't look forward to that episode (otherwise, we would've run it in August or so), I think it will be enlightening.
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