In Today’s Journal
* Quote of the Day
* A New Short Story
* Bradbury Reminder
* Novel Didn’t Wrap
* Guest Posts Welcome
* Of Interest
* The Numbers
Quote of the Day
“Tension is how the conflict is laid out, with each step along the way raising the temperature.” Sarah Hamer
A New Short Story
“Incident on a Georgia Bridge” went live yesterday at 10 a.m. on my Stanbrough Writes Substack. Go check it out. It’s free.
If you enjoy the story, please click Like. Comments are welcome too. Both help with my Substack algorithms. Then tell Everyone else.
Bradbury Reminder
Today is Saturday. Just a reminder to get your Bradbury Challenge story info in to me before the Journal goes live on Monday.
Novel Didn’t Wrap
I expected the novel to wrap yesterday, but it didn’t happen. Shrug. It just kept running, so I kept writing.
I think it will wrap today, but who knows.
Blackwell Ops 39: More Paul Stone launched everywhere today, though.
Guest Posts Welcome
If there’s a writing or publishing topic you know well or if you want to talk about your process, consider sharing that with others by writing a guest post for TNDJ.
Note: I will not entertain posts that encourage the fear-based myths of fiction writing (outlining/plotting, rewriting X number of times, etc.), but anything else is welcome.
If you’re in doubt about whether your topic would make a good guest post for TNDJ, I welcome queries at harveystanbrough@gmail.com. Any editing I do will be necessary and light.
Also, I’d be happy to link to your website, Amazon or Facebook (etc.) page, to books you want to promote, and so on. (Please provide the links.)
Talk with you again soon.
Of Interest
The Numbers
The Journal…………………………… 290
Writing of Blackwell Ops 41: León Garras
Day 1…… 1847 words. To date…… 1847
Day 2…… 3410 words. To date…… 5257
Day 3…… 3452 words. To date…… 8709
Day 4…… 2915 words. To date…… 11624
Day 5…… 2311 words. To date…… 13935
Day 6…… 1610 words. To date…… 15545
Day 7…… 4129 words. To date…… 19674
Day 8…… 3889 words. To date…… 23563
Day 9…… 3313 words. To date…… 26876
Day 10…. 3373 words. To date…… 30249
Day 11…. 3424 words. To date…… 33673
Day 12…. 2506 words. To date…… 36179
Day 13…. 3875 words. To date…… 40054
Fiction for April……………………….. 38093
Fiction for 2025………………………. 305043
Nonfiction for April…………………….. 7950
Nonfiction for 2025…………………… 89480
2025 consumable words…………….. 388013
Average Fiction WPD (March)……… 3463
2025 Novels to Date…………………….. 7
2025 Novellas to Date…………………… 0
2025 Short Stories to Date……………… 17
Novels (since Oct 19, 2014)…………….. 111
Novellas (since Nov 1, 2015)…………… 10
Short stories (since Apr 15, 2014)……… 287
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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