Fireproof Garage #7 – The Greatest Stories Ever ‘Told’
September 3, 2015
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Fireproof Garage #5 – The Soundtrack Of My Life
May 30, 2015
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Fireproof Garage #4 – Fireproof Garage
April 15, 2015
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Fireproof Garage #3 – It’s Like Herpes
March 5, 2015
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Fireproof Garage #2 – If These Jerks Can Make A Podcast…
February 21, 2015
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Fireproof Garage #1 – Technical Difficulties
February 21, 2015
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Billy, Don’t Use My Number
March 13, 2013
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Writers love to tell you their word counts.
“Just did 500 words before breakfast!”
“Got my 1,000 words done for the day!”
“30,000 words done on the new novel!”
We take great delight in passing on the numbers we produce. I have been no exception. If you trawled back through my Facebook and Twitter posts, you would find statements similar to those above (though probably not without profanity).
Well, I’m here to tell you that’s all in the past. Aside from those punching the keyboard, no digits will ever again offer any implied measure of my authorial efforts. And if my colleagues on the shelves have a high regard for the craft – as I know they do – they will avoid any future reference to word counts, too.