Writing - January 2026

[smallhobbit]

January has got off to a good start, with 14,800 words, which surprises me.

For More Joy Day I wrote The Absolute Limit a Sherlock Holmes ficlet for sixbeforelunch  and also for Snowflake for brumeier A Werewolf in Scotland

For whatif_au Fake Relationship Challenge Miss Marple's Nephew

And for allbingo Public Domain Challenge Combatting the Enemy which is a Spooks (MI5) 1920s AU.

Those two turned out longer than my usual challenge works.

I've also been writing one or two three sentence fills for threesentenceficathon every day, and I've prepared the first few drabbles for next months small_fandoms drabblethon.

Comments

[lucy_roman]

That's a lot of writing, well done.

[smallhobbit]

Thank you! My overall aim is 8.5K-10K per month, with a total of 100K for the year, so I was surprised at how much I'd written. It buys me time for later in the year, especially when I'm away for a week.

[lucy_roman]

That's quite a target! I'm really bad at tracking how much I write mostly because I write longhand a lot or when I type directly onto my tablet there's no word count on it.

[smallhobbit]

It should be possible, most years I achieve 120K. I generally use word docs so can count that way, and even if I've been away from home and written longhand I'll type them up before posting (having deciphered some of the hieroglyphics!) I also use an online character/word counter if it's for a drabble I'm posting directly, when I need to know the word count anyway.

[lucy_roman]

For drabbles I put them onto AO3 as drafts and get the word count that way.

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

Congrats on the wordage! You are off to a great start.

Thank you for reminding me about 3 sentence ficathon. If you post prompts, let me know. It's such a big posts that I would never find them otherwise.

[smallhobbit]

Thank you very much!

I haven't as yet posted any prompts, but I'll have a think :)

ETA: https://threesentenceficathon.dreamwidth.org/7020.html Pages 39 and 40, three prompts