Harvey

In today’s Journal * Correction * Thought of the Day * The Bradbury Challenge Writers Reporting * The Novel * Storytelling at Depth: The Series * Special Thanks * Of Interest * The Numbers Happy Canada Day! And thanks to writer George Kordonis for bringing it to my attention. Correction Oops. In yesterday’s post, I advertised a Quote of the Day in the table of contents. There was no quote of the day. That was a holdover from earlier. Mark it up to Old Man Slippage. Thought of the Day Now and then I come up with a good one: … Read more

In today’s Journal * An Endorsement *Critiques *Copyediting * Tomorrow * A Note to Non-Subscribers * An Expansion on the Use of Parens and Em Dashes * No Writing Again * The Numbers An Endorsement Now that the smoke has cleared from my mini-vacation, I thought I’d trot out a few reminders here. Awhile back, Peter Armstrong, an excellent storyteller who needed a little help translating the story to the page, left the following excerpted comment on a TNDJ post regarding an opening critique and then eventual copyedit I did for him: “Doubt Harvey’s words at your own risk. I … Read more

In today’s Journal * Still Playing Catch-Up * Smiling Sharks (guest post) * Of Interest * The Numbers Still Playing Catch-Up I didn’t write on the novel at all the day before yesterday because I was recovering from remembering that I’m actually 71 years old after pretending for a few days I was 26. (grin) And I didn’t write on the novel at all yesterday (Monday) because I’m dealing with fallout from having lost my cell phone during the trip. My son drove about three hours back and then forward again to check the two possible places where I might … Read more