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July 16, 2014

Scribings 4 Giveaway at Goodreads

We’re giving away 6 signed copies of the Scribings, Vol 4: Miscreations paperback at Goodreads! Goodreads Book Giveaway Scribings, Vol 4 by Jamie Alan Belanger Giveaway ends August 15, 2014. See the giveaway details at Goodreads. Enter to win


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Published on July 16, 2014 20:24

July 10, 2014

Half a Million Words (A Special Writing Update)

Oh yes… It’s true… Today I passed that milestone. I’ve writtenmore thanhalf a million words of original fiction so far this year. I’m excited at the accomplishment, and a little apprehensive about having to edit all of this fiction. At least it will give me something to do for the next few years, lol. What? […]


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Published on July 10, 2014 13:50

July 9, 2014

Scribings, Vol 4: Miscreations ebook now available!

This morning we published the ebook version of Scribings, Vol 4:Miscreationsin the Smashwords and Kindle stores. I and the other members of the Greater Portland Scribists have been working hard on these stories for months, and we’re overjoyed to announce that they are finally ready for publication. It’s been a long road, and we delayed […]


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Published on July 09, 2014 12:46

July 1, 2014

Jamie’s Writing Update for June 2014

Day Skipper I’ll admit, I skipped a few days of writing this past month. The first two were understandable, as I was helping my brother and sister-in-law in New Hampshire move. The third day I skipped, however, was just a total lack of motivation. I didn’t even feel bad about it; I just didn’t write. […]


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Published on July 01, 2014 07:53

June 22, 2014

Scribings Vol 4 Coming Soon!

Volume 4 of the Scribings anthology series is almost done… we’re putting the finishing touches on the stories and should be ready to publish the ebook this week. The paperback will take another couple of weeks to get all the formatting just right, but that should be out at some point in July. It took […]


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Published on June 22, 2014 10:49

June 1, 2014

Jamie’s Writing Update for May 2014

The first failure was inevitable Near the end of this month, I took a trip to visit my brother in Texas, and did not write at all for five days. Yes, technically, it was a vacation. But I still feel somewhat bad about it. I wanted to write, even with my recent feelings of being […]


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Published on June 01, 2014 09:00

May 1, 2014

Jamie’s Writing Update for April 2014

Earlier this year, I talked a little about my goal to write 2,014 words a day, every day this year. The quest continues… I did write at least that many words every day, although I didn’t have any dayswhere I got into a groove and just kept writing. In general, I’ve been tapering off. This […]


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Published on May 01, 2014 08:36

April 1, 2014

Jamie’s Writing Update for March 2014

Earlier this year, I talked a little about my goal to write 2,014 words a day, every day this year. The quest continues, and I did stick with it for yet another month. Some other cool and interesting things happened as well… Quarter Million Words Yes, I passed that milestone a few days ago. […]


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Published on April 01, 2014 12:00

March 27, 2014

Fun With Word Count Statistics

While writing my post yesterday about my word count statistics, I ran some other numbers through the ol’ spreadsheet and came up with some other interesting facts. I made these word count statistics by highlighting the actual stories, so if you compare to word counts at places like Smashwords, it won’t match up… I didn’t […]


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Published on March 27, 2014 13:00

March 26, 2014

Quarter Million: A Mid-Month Writing Update

Today I passed a milestone with my writing: I’ve written a quarter of a million words so far this year… 251,542 words to be exact. Out of curiosity, I looked through some of my notes and statistics to see exactly how many words this is. Since I started publishing in 2010, I’ve published 212,878 words […]


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Published on March 26, 2014 14:00