In today’s Journal
* The Missing Days
* Just dinging along
* Of Interest
* The Numbers
The Missing Days
Well, I think the matter with the Journal subscriptions is resolved. I ran a validity check on my RSS feed and found it was broken and why. So once I got rid of the problem (about 9:30 yesterday morning), the Journal posted at 10.
To make it a little easier to read the issues you might have missed, here are the links:
Apr 19: The Origins of Rider Jones—Bragging just a little and why I’m writing about Rider Jones in the first place (440 words)
I didn’t post on April 20-21.
Apr 22: Catching Up—Some good quotes, etc. (410 words)
Apr 23: Working and Having Fun—Topic, quotes, etc. (750 words)
Apr 24: Lansdale, Orwell, and Farland—The headline kind’a speaks for itself. (1000 words)
Apr 25: Fiction Lengths and Much More—Quotes, something for patrons, etc. (670 words)
Just dinging along on the Rider Jones story. I could have wrapped it as a novelette at a little over 11,000 words, but it sort of wanted to keep going and I sort of wanted to continue exploring the character.
So I went back to the front and typed Part One, then went back to the end and typed Part Two and kept going. (grin) We’ll see what happens.
Talk with you again soon.
Of Interest
See the comments on “Using Pop Culture References in Fiction” at https://killzoneblog.com/2021/04/using-pop-culture-references-in-fiction.html#comments.
See “Character Name Crisis!” at https://killzoneblog.com/2021/04/character-name-crisis.html. Help a pro writer figure out a name for her character.
The Numbers
The Journal…………………………………… 250 words
Writing of The Origins of Rider Jones (short story, maybe longer)
Day 1…… 4293 words. Total words to date…… 4293
Day 2…… 2458 words. Total words to date…… 6751
Day 3…… 3722 words. Total words to date…… 10473
Day 4…… 2144 words. Total words to date…… 12617
Total fiction words for April……… 68345
Total fiction words for the year………… 355422
Total nonfiction words for April… 14980
Total nonfiction words for the year…… 82380
Total words for the year (fiction and this blog)…… 437802
Calendar Year 2021 Novels to Date…………………… 7
Calendar Year 2021 Novellas to Date……………… X
Calendar Year 2021 Short Stories to Date… 3
Novels (since Oct 19, 2014)…………………………………… 61
Novellas (since Nov 1, 2015)………………………………… 8
Short stories (since Apr 15, 2014)………………… 217
Short story collections……………………………………………… 31
Disclaimer: In this blog, I provide advice on writing fiction. I advocate a technique called Writing Into the Dark. To be crystal clear, WITD is not “the only way” to write, nor will I ever say it is. However, as I am the only writer who advocates WITD both publicly and regularly, I will continue to do so, among myriad other topics.