In Today’s Journal
* A New Short Story
* Bradbury Reminder
* The Whirlwind Winds Down
* Of Interest
* The Numbers
A New Short Story
“Marisa” went live yesterday at 10 a.m. on my Stanbrough Writes Substack.
This one’s kind’a sort’a horror-ish maybe. 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.
Remember, if you finish a story earlier in the week, you can send the info to me early too. It never hurts to avoid pushing the deadline.
The Whirlwind Winds Down
Not a lot to report today, but I wanted to get yesterday’s free story of the week out to you and remind those in the Bradbury Challenge to get their stuff in before Monday.
I have it on good authority one previous success at the challenge is going to rejoin this week. Exciting!
I hope some of you other short story writers will jump in too. It really is fun to challenge yourself that way, and you never know what you can accomplish until you try. Chances are great you’ll surprise yourself.
I’ll be on the road today to complete what’s been a whirlwind trip. It will be good to be back in the Hovel.
Oh, and personal to Emilia P—I didn’t get to the critique of your opening yet. But I’ll get to it in the next day or two.
Talk with you again soon.
Of Interest
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The Numbers
The Journal…………………………… 300
Writing of Blackwell Ops 47: Sam Granger | Special Duty
Day 1…… 3250 words. To date…… 3250
Day 2…… 1110 words. To date…… 4360
Day 3…… 3323 words. To date…… 7683
Day 4…… 1656 words. To date…… 9339
Day 5…… 1413 words. To date…… 10752
Fiction for August..………………….. 7502
Fiction for 2025………………………. 534149
Nonfiction for August………………… 17850
Nonfiction for 2025…………………… 186250
2025 consumable words…………….. 712785
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