The event ended with my crushing the low bar of 30,000 words that I set (the official site wouldn't let me adjust anyway) and I finished with 53,000 words written.
This equated to 18 first drafts of short suspense, horror and/or supernatural stories. Since then I have dropped one but written two more for a total of 19 titles.
My next effort is concentrating on piecing them together into a full collection under the title:
The Rorschach Test - and other tales of suspense, horror and the supernatural
It may be tough going for me, as they are different lengths, and some decidedly different tones in some cases. You might jump from a ghost story, to a gruesome tale to a comedic piece.
My hope is that they will still hold together as a collection.
The next step for me is to collect them all together in one document and list out all the stories, though the order in which they are presented is subject to change. The book cover is just an idea so far but I have a mock up using some tweaked graphic that I found online. The final cover will be an original piece.
I am happy to have made progress beyond the original challenge and hope to publish before the end of August this year.
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