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In today’s Journal * The Bradbury Challenge Writers Reporting * The Livestream on YouTube * Another Reason for Cycling * Of Interest * The Numbers The Bradbury Challenge Writers Reporting To take part, write at least one short story per week (or add to your novel), then submit the story title, word count, and genre to me each week for publication in the Journal on Monday. The whole point is to have fun and grow as a writer. You can join or rejoin the challenge at any time. There’s no cost. During the past week, in addition to whatever other … Read more

In today’s Journal * Two Reminders * Reading Your Own Work * Of Interest * The Numbers Two Reminders One, Bradbury Challenge information—for those who are in the Bradbury Challenge to write at least one short story every week, story information is required before the Journal goes live tomorrow morning (Monday). Two, tune-in at my YouTube channel this afternoon at 1 p.m. Arizona time to see whether it works this time. You know, if you want to. Reading Your Own Work I very seldom read my own work. For one thing, knowing I committed typos drives me nuts. For another, … Read more

In today’s Journal * Quotes of the Day * A New Short Story * Once More Into the Breach * Who Thinks Like That? * Of Interest * The Numbers Quotes of the Day “Do Androids Dream of Electic Sheep?” title of a novel by Phillip K. Dick And do schizophrenics dream of eclectic sheep? “I’m totally ready to set this thing on fire.” Stacy, my server tech at my webhost, venting her frustration re a “mailscanner” she was trying to get rid of a few days ago. A New Short Story “An Untapped Field of Endeavor” went live yesterday … Read more

In today’s Journal * Philip K. Dick, Anyone? * Of Interest * The Numbers Philip K. Dick, Anyone? From an article in 1440 Daily Digest: “Neuralink develops invisible, wireless brain implants designed to restore control and movement to people with limited mobility due to brain-related issues. “The procedure involves the use of a proprietary robot surgically implanting a coin-sized transponder underneath the skull. The Food and Drug Administration authorized Neuralink to conduct human trials in May. “The company also plans to offer the implant to healthy people to allow bodily integration with computers.” So as I titled this post, Philip … Read more

In today’s Journal * Quotes of the Day * Every Novel Writes Differently * It All Depends… * Of Interest * The Numbers Quotes of the Day “I’ve also been doing a ‘how I wrote these’ history of each [of six short stories and a few novelettes] on my website. Start here. [Scroll down.] It’ll lead you to the others.” Kristine Kathryn Rusch (See Of Interest) If you’d like to see how Kris came to write some of the stories featured in her current Kickstarter, click the link above. “When I stand before God at the end of my life, … Read more

In today’s Journal * Quotes of the Day * No, But I Saw the Movie * A Few Notes * Of Interest * The Numbers No, But I Saw the Movie This is a guest post by Michaele Lockhart. If it looks familiar, it was first posted in the old Pro Writers Writing (PWW) website for which Michaele was a weekly contributor. Ah, the movies…. Our lives brim with audio-visual cues. Movies and television shows and even YouTube videos clamor for our attention. We’re conditioned to experiencing the world accompanied by moving images and sound. Does this mean that writing … Read more

In today’s Journal * Personal Responsibility and Generative AI * A New Novel (or Series) * Of Interest * The Numbers Personal Responsibility and Generative AI Recently I was glad to see that Amazon now requires publishers (writers) to verify, by ticking a radio box, whether any part of the story or novel they’re publishing was the result of generative AI. Why? Because it goes to personal responsibility. Ticking the first box amounts to an admission that yes, the writer created the work at least in part using generative AI. Ticking the second box verifies that no generative AI was … Read more

In today’s Journal * Quotes of the Day * Bradbury Challenge Writers Reporting * Live from the Hovel… Wasn’t * Classic Country Music Radio * Of Interest * The Numbers Quote of the Day “To understand a concept and to do it in real life are two different things. I knew about cycling and I knew how to do it, but this time I did it for real. Practice is really the key.” Balázs Jámbor, fiction writer The Bradbury Challenge Writers Reporting Rules of the Challenge The challenge is to write at least one short story per week (or add … Read more

In today’s Journal * Quotes of the Day * Thought of the Day * Reminder * Hint: Enhance, Not Advance * The Novel Wrapped * Of Interest * The Numbers Quotes of the Day “The greatest advance of the digital era has been the rebranding of narcissism as sharing.” Cartoonist P. Byrnes in a captio of one of his cartoons that displays humans taking ‘selfies’ with smart phones “Every story or novel you write has value, not only in short-term sales, but in long term branding.” Dean Wesley Smith (See Of Interest) Thought of the Day I’ve never understood why … Read more

In today’s Journal * Quote of the Day * Chekov’s Gun * A New Short Story * Compiling a Novel * Of Interest * The Numbers Quote of the Day “There are at least 2 or 3 more short stories in this bunch and then it will be a novel.” KC Riggs Chekov’s Gun Thanks to the few who reminded me after yesterday’s post it’s “Chekov’s Gun” and has nothing to do with the Stanislavski Technique, which has to do with “Method Acting.” A New Short Story “Blackwell Ops: Sam Thurston” went live yesterday on my Stanbrough Writes Substack. To … Read more