IWSG Day and 1st Tri-annual Writing Progress Report

Happy IWSG Day! Can you believe it’s May already? Oh well. That means we’ve had five months of sharing our writing woes. Five months of encouraging our fellow writers in our snug writing community. And with many more to come. All thanks goes to ninja extraordinaire Alex Cavanaugh for bringing us together.
And thanks to the awesome co-hosts posting today: E.M.A. Timar, J. Q. Rose, C.Lee McKenzie, and Raimey Gallant!
Interested in joining us? Click on the badge above. Our Twitter hashtag and handle are #IWSG and @TheIWSG.
So what’s going on with me this month?

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85K90 Catch Up Month Update

Okay, I’m using April to catch up on the final word count to make goal of 85k words. Did I make it?

Well, let’s see…

85K90 Month Three Update

It’s the final writing month part of 85K90. I’m no good with Math, but I tried to calculate the words written by month.  And find out exactly the total words I’d have to commit to complete the challenge.

First I came up with a total of 39,176 words written from January to February. But my project tracker on 85K90 states my word count is at 42,227. If so, then the word count up to March 23 should be 48,244.

Now let’s see what, if any, progress I made in March.:

Creating Names in Fiction

When it comes to creating names it’s hit or miss for me. Sometimes I know right away what I want to name a character, a city, etc. But what happens when I don’t? Or can’t choose between two or more names?

For the latter, sometimes I ask you, my followers, through a poll? Like this one.: