The Journal, Wednesday, February 7

Hey Folks,

Not sure what I’ll do today for writing, other than this. We’ll see. In the meantime, Dean and Kris have come up with two new workshops. See “Of Interest” below.

As it turned out, I wrote a blog post for HarveyStanbrough.com. Almost a thousand words. Some of you will like it. It’s titled “The Use of Italics, Revisited.” I moved the other pre-posted ones out, so the new one will post next Tuesday.

Well, also as it turned out, today I finished cycling through the short story that I’m turning into a novel. It took about two hours (so two sessions) and in that time I added a little over 1100 words.

Not too bad for cycling. When I return to the WIP in a day or two, I should be able to get back up to speed. Very interested to see where this is going to go.

See you in a day or two.

Of Interest

Check out “Two Brand New Workshops and Special Offer” at https://www.deanwesleysmith.com/two-brand-new-workshops-and-special-offer/.

See “Avoid Burnout With Strategic Breaks” at https://killzoneblog.com/2018/02/avoiding-burnout-with-strategic-breaks.html.

Just for fun, see “What Did That Sign Say?” at https://killzoneblog.com/2018/02/what-did-that-sign-say.html.

Fiction Words: 1120
Nonfiction Words: 1180 (200 Journal, 980 Blog)
So total words for the day: 2300

Writing of The Age Exchange (novel, working title)

Brought forward…… 6985
Day 1…… 1285 words. Total words to date…… 8270
Day 2…… 1120 words. Total words to date…… 9390

Total fiction words for the month……… 2405
Total fiction words for the year………… 40561
Total nonfiction words for the month… 1830
Total nonfiction words for the year…… 9850
Total words for the year (fiction and this blog)…… 50411

Calendar Year 2018 Novels to Date………………………… 1
Calenday Year 2018 Novellas to Date…………………… 0
Calendar Year 2018 Short Stories to Date……… 0
Novels (since Oct 19, 2014)………………………………………… 28
Novellas (since Nov 1, 2015)……………………………………… 4
Short stories (since Apr 15, 2014)……………………………… 182