Welcome to the Heibel Media Newsletter 
July 2014   


Why do summer months fly by while the winter months drag?  June is history and what a month it was!

  • I posted my 150th blog post with the release of the back cover of  Reunion.  
  •  I missed a story release due to creative issues with a story.   
  • I wrote two new short stories that revisit two stories I wrote in 1988.  
  • I finished the first draft of the fantasy novel and titled it Metal Harvest.  
  • I revised 114 pages of material, 87 pages of Reunion and two short stories.  
  • I wrote every single day in June totaling 43,783 words or 187 new pages!
 
When I summarize all this I see why the month flew by!


Read on and enjoy my stories!



Edition 11
In this issue
July Short Story Release
Write 365 Initiative Progress Report
Writing 500k Words Update
What's Ahead in July
As I Write Blog Update
Digital Subscription
Links to All Heibel Media Sites
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New Short Story Wind in the Wires Revisited Now Available!  
 
In 1981 I wrote a story called The Wind in the Wires which tells the story of an 8 year-old boy's confrontation of a childhood fear.  I rewrote the story in 1988 and wrote a companion story called When Monsters Die that tells the same story from the monster's perspective.

This month I finished a short story called Wind in the Wires Revisited which tells the story of the boy, now 52 and back in his boyhood home facing the same childhood fear.  I also am finishing up When Monsters Die Revisited which tells the same story from the monsters perspective.

This month I am re-releasing The Wind in the Wires and releasing Wind in the Wires Revisited with it.  In August, I'll release the Monster's stories.

For those of you wondering about The Glass Man, I hope to have that story offered up for September.

Download the two Wind in the Wires stories on the link below!

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 write365

 Write 365 Initiative  2014-15 Progress Update!

 
The Write 365 Initiative is a year-long project of mine to write at least 1 new page of fiction every single day for a year.  I keep a chart that is updated weekly on the website of my progress.  Follow this link to see the chart and read about the progress of all my stories:  http://heibelmedia.com/asiwrite365.html

Here is an up to date (as of 6/30/14) summary of everything I've written since I started this on April 11, 2014:

Met Goal Initiative 100%:  81 Days Completed Successfully of 81 Days!

 

466 New Pages Written Total!

 

112,268 Words Written 

 

Novels:  new pages total 
  • Untitled: 217  new 1st draft pages written
  • The Metal Saga (Working Title): 231 new 1st draft pages written and FIRST DRAFT DONE!


Short Stories: 25 new pages total  

 

  • Spilled Cereal 6 pgs.
  • Wind in the Wires Revisited 11 pgs.
  • When Monsters Die Revisited 8 pgs.

 

 

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 Writing 500,000 Words in 2014

As of June 30  

 

Total Words to Date: 214,924      Words Left to Write 285,076

 

                      Short of Goal by 32,222 words    

   

Novels: 197,091 new words written total 
  • Untitled Contemporary Drama: 73,031 Words
  • Metal Harvest: 122,134 Words   1st Draft Finished

Short Stories: 12,942 new words written total 
  • Letting Go:  4,365 Words 
  • Bed Wetting:  1,440 Words
  • The Happiness Bug:  4.124 Words
  • At the Intersection: 1,926 Words  
  • The Glass Man:  1,575 Words
  • Spilled Cereal: 1,438 Words
  • Wind in the Wires Revisited:  2,851
  • When Monsters Die Revisited:  2,040
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 What's Ahead in July?    

   


Short Stories:
  • Finish When Monsters Die Revisited and The Glass Man  
  • Revise The Happiness Bug, When Did We Get Old, Spilled Cereal
 
Novels:
  • Finish Revision of Reunion
  • Continue 1st Draft of Untitled contemporary drama
  •  
Write 365 Goal:  50,000 words written to bring deficit down by 7,500 words
 
 blog

 As I Write:  My Blog  

 

Every Tuesday and Friday at 10:30 a.m. I post an article about writing.  It may be what I'm working on or something about stories and writing in general.  It's a fun and interesting look at how a writer looks at things.  I'm looking for people to read the blog, comment on the articles and follow my blog.

Here are the topics from June:  
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Books:  Overture to Rain, New Blood, Termination Notice and Reunion (coming Fall 2014), and an untitled collection of short stories (coming in late 2014)

Stories:  30 Day Notice; Ugly People; Will You Please Listen, Please; The Bird Who Wouldn't Fly; The Woman Who Refused to Die, When Did We Get Old?, Baby Blues Revisited, Letting Go, Bed Wetting, At the Intersection, The Wind in the Wires, Wind in the Wires Revisited

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