One Day Left

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In Today’s Journal

* One Day Left
* A New Contest
* I’ll Be Away
* The Numbers

One Day Left

on the True Pulp Kickstarter. To repeat my last offer from a few days ago,

If you donate at least $15 to the True Pulp Kickstarter today or tomorrow and then email me to let me know, I’ll send you a coupon code to score

  • the One-Off Mysteries Omnibus
  • OR the complete, 10-volume set of The Journey Home SF Saga (a $35 value)
  • OR the Nonfiction Omnibus PLUS Writing Better Fiction (a $34 value).

And of course you’ll also get the True Pulp anthology itself when the editors get it out (August, if I remember correctly).

A New Contest

In case you missed it, I’m running a new contest.

Check the rules at the link above, then send me your best work.

I’ll Be Away

I’ll be on the road for a few days, so my email access and response times will be limited. Thanks for your patience.

The Numbers

The Journal…………………………… 160

Writing of Blackwell Ops 47: Sam Granger | Special Duty

Day 1…… 3250 words. To date…… 3250

Fiction for July..………………………. 5840
Fiction for 2025………………………. 526647
Nonfiction for July…………………….. 13370
Nonfiction for 2025…………………… 163000
2025 consumable words…………….. 682033

2025 Novels to Date…………………….. 13
2025 Novellas to Date…………………… 0
2025 Short Stories to Date……………… 31
Novels (since Oct 19, 2014)…………….. 117
Novellas (since Nov 1, 2015)…………… 10
Short stories (since Apr 15, 2014)……… 301
Short story collections……………………. 29

Whatever you believe, unreasoning fear and the myths that outlining, revising, and rewriting will make your work better are lies. They will always slow your progress as a writer or stop you cold. I will never teach the myths on this blog.

Writing fiction should never be something that stresses you out. It should be fun. On this blog I teach Writing Into the Dark and adherence to Heinlein’s Rules. Because of WITD and because I endeavor to follow those Rules I am a prolific professional fiction writer. You can be too.

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