In today’s Journal
* A New Short Story
* Update on Writing Better Fiction
* An Update Re StoneThread
* Of Interest
* The Numbers
A New Short Story
“Little Bit: A Cautionary Tale of Love” went live yesterday on my Stanbrough Writes Substack. If you like emotional stories, you’ll want to read this one.
This one is not magic realism, but it was written by my persona and good friend, Gervasio Arrancado. I could not have written it myself.
To subscribe to Stanbrough Writes, click the link above and then the Subscribe button at the end of the story. You’ll receive a new short story every Friday, and it’s free.
Below the Subscribe button, there are other short stories you can read in most genres. Enjoy!
Update on Writing Better Fiction
Everyone on the list should have received their printable, searchable PDF copy.
The binder-ready PAPER edition will go out via USPS on Monday. So everyone who purchased one and every donor and every contributor will receive them soon.
An Update Re StoneThread
Yesterday, as soon as I sent the Journal, I went back to StoneThread Publishing and uploaded a bunch of PDF documents.
So now if you visit the Writing Books page and click on any cover in the bottom two rows of the page, that book will automatically download in searchable, printable PDF format.
As I reported earliler, if you click any cover toward the top of the page, you will be redirected to the individual page for that book. There you can read the book description.
If you want to buy it, you can click the Amazon or other external link, or you can purchase at a discount directly from me with one click. You’ll see what I mean.
The shopping cart opens on PayPal, and you can continue shopping (back to StoneThread) or you can pay for what you bought.
If you own a website, feel free to use (or more likely, improve on) anything you find there.
Yesterday, I finally returned to my current novel and wrote a little fiction. Seems like I’ve been away forever.
When the novel is finished, I’ll take a few days to build individual pages and add Buy Now links etc. for ALL the novels and novellas and short story collections on StoneThread Publishing.
Talk with you again soon.
Of Interest
2024 Rakuten Kobo Emerging Writer Prize Now Open for Submissions Note that this is open only to Canadian authors.
The Numbers
The Journal……………………………… 400
Writing of Blackwell Ops 21: Johnny Mercer
Day 1…… 4190 words. To date…… 4190
Day 2…… 2599 words. To date…… 6789
Day 3…… 3380 words. To date…… 10169
Day 4…… 2812 words. To date…… 12981
Day 5…… 1726 words. To date…… 14707
Day 6…… 1866 words. To date…… 16573
Day 7…… 4349 words. To date…… 20922
Fiction for March…………………….…. 14133
Fiction for 2024…………………………. 178725
Fiction since October 1………………… 481780
Nonfiction for March…………………… 12320
Nonfiction for 2024……………………… 111510
2024 consumable words……………… 290235
2024 Novels to Date……………………… 4
2024 Novellas to Date…………………… 0
2024 Short Stories to Date……………… 1
Novels (since Oct 19, 2014)…………… 86
Novellas (since Nov 1, 2015)…………… 9
Short stories (since Apr 15, 2014)…… 239
Short story collections………………… 31
Disclaimer: I am a prolific professional fiction writer. On this blog I teach Writing Into the Dark and adherence to Heinlein’s Rules. Unreasoning fear and the myths of writing will slow your progress as a writer or stop you cold. I will never teach the myths on this blog.
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