Hey Folks,
Wow, strange day. I usually write a lot of what will become the day’s Journal entry early, then add to it off and on through the day.
Today was supposed to be another nonwriting day, but it turned out about like yesterday did.
But with a unique twist.
I was working on my current work in progress when an idea sprang into my head. It was a morbid little thought, one more suited for my person Eric Stringer than for me. Or maybe even for my character, Charles Claymore Task. Charlie would love it.
Anyway, for about an hour, I abandoned the big WIP to start the second one. The first will result in at least two novels, and I hope several more. But that’s all up to the characters.
The second, the one I started today, will result in a collection of short stories — a morbid collection of morbid stories, unless I miss my guess — called The Less-Relatable Tales of a Desperado. We shall see.
So I’m writing this at the (slightly early) end of my day. Oddly, I actually made my word count. Again, for what was to be a nonwriting day, not too bad.
Back soon.
Of Interest
See Linda Maye Adams’ “Respecting the Writing, Respecting Yourself” at https://lindamayeadams.com/2018/01/07/respecting-the-writing-respecting-yourself/.
On a somewhat related note, maybe, via The Passive Voice, see “Searching for the Self-Loathing Woman Writer” at http://www.thepassivevoice.com/2018/01/searching-for-the-self-loathing-woman-writer/.
Fiction Words: 2645
Nonfiction Words: 240 (Journal)
So total words for the day: 2885
Writing of The Origin Novel (working title)
BF…………… 32658 words.
Day 1…… 2689 words. Total words to date…… 35347
Day 2…… 2636 words. Total words to date…… 37983
Day 3…… 3189 words. Total words to date…… 41172
Day 4…… 2525 words. Total words to date…… 43697
Day 5…… 2609 words. Total words to date…… 46306
Day 6…… 2455 words. Total words to date…… 48761
Day 7…… 1341 words. Total words to date…… 50102
Writing of “The Storytellers,” the first story in The Less-Relatable Tales of a Desperado
Day 1…… 1304 words. Total words to date…… 1304
Total fiction words for the month……… 18748
Total fiction words for the year………… 18748
Total nonfiction words for the month… 3320
Total nonfiction words for the year…… 3320
Total words for the year (fiction and this blog)…… 22068
Calendar Year 2018 Novels to Date………………………… 0
Calenday Year 2018 Novellas to Date…………………… 0
Calendar Year 2018 Short Stories to Date……… 0
Novels (since Oct 19, 2014)………………………………………… 27
Novellas (since Nov 1, 2015)……………………………………… 4
Short stories (since Apr 15, 2014)……………………………… 182