Month: July 2023

In today’s Journal * Happy Independence Day * Squash Blossom * Of Interest * The Numbers Happy Independence Day Here in the ‘States we celebrate our independence from England. It’s quite a kerfluffle over here, though I fear most of our citizens and permanent visitors have given up on the true meaning and gravitated more toward July 4 as a chance to blow stuff up and gorge on hotdogs and hamburgers. As I wrote a few days ago, here’s wishing all of you a safe, enjoyable Independence Day. Enjoy the brats and burgers and ‘dogs and sodas and suds, but … Read more

In today’s Journal * Quote of the Day * The Power of Word Count Goals (and Tracking Them) * Bradbury Challenge Writers Reporting * Of Interest * The Numbers Quote of the Day “My perfect day is sitting in a room with some blank paper. That’s heaven. That’s gold and anything else is just a waste of time.” Cormac McCarthy The Power of Word Count Goals (and Tracking Them) K.C. Riggs The following is a guest post by K.C. Riggs, who is easily among my favorite writers. I highly recommend her novels, The Widow’s Circle and Number 5 in the … Read more

In today’s Journal * Quotes of the Day * What Hell Looks Like * Restarting My Restart * My New Webcam * Of Interest * The Numbers Quotes of the Day “I never read reviews. My job is to write the stories. It’s none of my business what the reader thinks of them, and every reader will have a different opinion. (Same reason I don’t seek or accept critiques of my writing.) ” Me, yesterday, on a post in TKZ “Jay Lake, who sadly passed away in 2014, used to say ‘stories belong to the reader,’ meaning that readers own … Read more

In today’s Journal * Quote of the Day * A New Story * Another New Story * My New Webcam * Revising My Schedule and Routine * Of Interest * The Numbers Quote of the Day “I did some financial planning, and it looks like I can retire at 85 and live comfortably for 11 minutes.” Anonymous (Thanks to Sam Turner for the Quote of the Day) A New Story “Spider” posted yesterday (Friday). You can read it over at https://stanbroughwrites.substack[dot]com/. You can subscribe there too, to get a new short story every week. It’s free. Another New Story I … Read more