Another Q&A & Rewards

In today’s Journal

* Quotes of the Day
* Another Q&A & Rewards
* Free Journal Archives
* Off For Awhile
* Of Interest

Quotes of the Day

“Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.” Franklin D. Roosevelt

Um, writers, likewise.

“Do not grow old, no matter how long you live. Never cease to stand like curious children before the Great Mystery into which we were born.” Albert Einstein

Another Q&A & Rewards

Had another good comment from Heather H yesterday. You can read her comment and my response at https://hestanbrough.com/the-journal-dvds-mentoring-and-more/#comments.

Partly because of Heather’s comments these past two days and partly because it costs me nothing to leave it up there, I’ve decided to reinstate a system of patronage rewards. You can see that at https://hestanbrough.com/patronage-and-donations/.

But I emphasize, if you’re a patron and you want one or more of the rewards, you need to email me to let me know what you want and what eformat you prefer.

Free Journal Archives

Frankly, I’m not sure what I was thinking the other day when I slapped a price on the archives. I mean, they’re right there in the sidebar, and they’re right there in the Journal itself. All you’d have to do if you really wanted them is scroll through, copy and paste, and remember to click Save now and then. It isn’t even a copyright violation as long as they’re only for your own use and you never represent the thoughts there as being your own.

Putting a price on them was silly of me. So I’ve decided to make the archives free again. There y’go. You can find them with live download links again at https://hestanbrough.com/the-daily-journal-archives-gifts-dvds/.

And yes, Heather H, I expect I will create one more nonfiction book from what I’ve both practiced and written in the Journal over all these years. It will probably be titled Best Advice for Fiction Writers from a Prolific Professional Writer Who Knows What He’s Talking About and Isn’t Just Out to Make a Buck Selling You Books on How-to Outline and Plot and Plan and Squeeze Your Characters Beneath Your Control-Freak Thumb Until They Freakin’ Pop. Something like that.

It will add-to and greatly expand the free handout by a similar name on the Archives, Gifts & DVDs page. And frankly, I expect literally tens of people will buy it (grin) because what do I know? It isn’t like I have any experience other than having written over 70 novels (most in a month or less), 8 novellas, and over 220 short stories in several genres.

After all, I don’t even advocate all that plannning and plotting and crushing characters beneath the writer’s oppressive thumb and forcing them to the writer’s will and trusting strangers’ instincts more than you trust your own and all that bullsnot. Pure mushroom fodder, all of it.

Off For Awhile

I might be off here for awhile. Above everything else, writing fiction has always been fun for me, and I want to keep it that way. Or maybe get it back.

Recently I’ve allowed a little unnecessary internal pressure to creep in, partly on its own and partly in conjunction with some external life-happens pressures.

Overall the writing is less than fun right now, so I’m going to decompress a bit. Maybe even slip naked into a vat of Negra Modelo and just marinate. Hang in there, and I’ll talk with you all again before too long.

Of Interest

See “Derivative Rights in Bite-Sized Copyright” at https://deanwesleysmith.com/derivative-rights-in-bite-sized-copyright/.

The Numbers

The Journal…………………………………… 580 words

Writing of Wes Crowley: Deputy US Marshal 2 (WCG9SF4)

Day 1…… 3231 words. Total words to date…… 3231
Day 2…… 2990 words. Total words to date…… 6221
Day 3…… 1805 words. Total words to date…… 8026
Day 4…… 2025 words. Total words to date…… 10051

Total fiction words for January……… 46873
Total fiction words for 2023………… 46873
Total nonfiction words for January… 19600
Total nonfiction words for the year…… 19600
Total words for the year (fiction and this blog)…… 66473

Calendar Year 2023 Novels to Date…………………… 1
Calendar Year 2023 Novellas to Date……………… 0
Calendar Year 2023 Short Stories to Date… 0
Novels (since Oct 19, 2014)…………………………………… 72
Novellas (since Nov 1, 2015)………………………………… 8
Short stories (since Apr 15, 2014)………………… 217
Short story collections……………………………………………… 31

Disclaimer: I am a prolific professional fiction writer because of my zen-like non-process. If you want to learn it too, either hang around or download my Journal Archives at https://hestanbrough.com/the-daily-journal-archives/, read them, and try WITD for yourself.