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It Started in 2025

It Started in 2025

Not only is it the beginning of a new year, but it’s also the beginning of a new month. That usually means I would be starting to write a Short Story within the next three days, but I don’t need to do that this month. After all, I already know the prompt is this month. It’s ‘Dear Me.’

For the last few weeks, I thought about writing this ‘Dear Me’ letter to myself. After all, it has been several years since I entered this contest, but I decided that I wouldn’t do it again this year for several reasons. One of those reasons is that I have too much writing to catch up on.

It’s true that this kind of a prompt I could get done in a day or two, but that’s a day or two that I can’t work on my scriptwriting projects. That’s what is more important to me now, especially since I never win these contests. I might as well continue working on my scriptwriting projects.

Another reason why I’m not writing a ‘Dear Me’ letter this year is that I only worked nine hours yesterday evening and early this morning. Only four of those hours were for the year 2025. The other five were for the year 2026. Yes, I know there is only an hour difference between these two years.

If I had started at my regular time of six PM WDC time, I probably would have treated it from last year, 2025. Then again, I may have written two blog entries for last year and this year, 2026. Unfortunately, I didn’t start at my regular time. I started three hours later.

That’s enough about where I’m going to be saving this blog entry for today. Now it’s time to write about my movie, ‘The Final Ritual of Hummannan,’ scriptwriting project. Unfortunately, I didn’t get too far on my Scene Outline during my nine-hour shift. I only got the Teaser Act One finished during this shift.

Of course, I only had about an hour and a half to work on my Scene Outline for this project. The rest of the seven hours that I had to work on my scriptwriting projects were needed to finish writing my sentences for my Story Outline. Unfortunately, that took me a little bit longer than I thought it would.

Overall, I got the equivalent of about twenty-four paragraphs written during that seven-hour shift at work yesterday evening and early this morning. That’s the equivalent of three paragraphs every hour. That isn’t too good when it comes to writing, but it’s not too bad either.

What does that leave me to write before I finish writing this phase of this project? It means that I still have two hundred and seventy-five sentences left to write before I finish writing it. Will I get these sentences written during my first twelve-hour shift this week?

It’s very unlikely that I will get that many sentences written during that twelve-hour shift. Especially, if it turns out to be a nine or ten-hour shift during my first official twelve-hour shift this week. I could still get that many sentences written during this shift, but it’s unlikely.