In today’s Journal
* Short Story of the Week
* Emailing Programs
* Of Interest
Short Story of the Week
As I mentioned yesterday, I just posted a new free short story over at https://harveystanbroughwrites.com/category/short-story-of-the-week/.
Those of you who have social media accounts, please consider sharing the URL. I appreciate it.
Emailing Programs
In absence of word-of-mouth about the Stanbrough Writes website for readers, I’m also looking for a new program to send posts.
I felt like I wanted to use Substack, so I tried that first.
Turns out I was actually unable to upload a csv file to my Stanbrough Writes account on Substack even though I had just downloaded that same file from my HarveyStanbrough.com account on Substack. Seriously, does this sort of stuff happen to other people? (grin)
So anyway, it looks like I’ll be tied up with my search for awhile. So if I don’t post to the Journal for a day or two, that’s what’s going on.
I had planned to give this stuff my morning (yesterday), and then write all afternoon. However, apparently I’m not built that way. Once I get my teeth into something, I like to see it through.
So no writing yesterday, and thus far, no writing today. I’m checking various email sending outfits until I find one that feels like a good fit.
Talk with you again soon.
Of Interest
See “Just a note to say” at https://journal.neilgaiman.com/2022/11/just-note-to-say.html.
See “Top 41 Free Email Marketing Tools for 2022…” at https://influencermarketinghub.com/free-email-marketing-tools/. The article title mentions “41” tools but there were ony 39 listed.
See “Solving the JonBenet Ramsay Murder” at https://killzoneblog.com/2022/11/solving-the-jonbenet-ramsay-murder.html.
The Numbers
The Journal…………………………………… 260 words
Writing of The Stirchians (novel, tentative title)
Day 10… 1330 words. Total words to date…… 28459
Day 11… 2337 words. Total words to date…… 30836
Day 12… 2115 words. Total words to date…… 32951
Day 13… 2242 words. Total words to date…… 35193
Total fiction words for November……… 2242
Total fiction words for the year………… 163767
Total nonfiction words for November… 1870
Total nonfiction words for the year…… 177500
Total words for the year (fiction and this blog)…… 341267
Calendar Year 2022 Novels to Date…………………… 2
Calendar Year 2022 Novellas to Date……………… 0
Calendar Year 2022 Short Stories to Date… 0
Novels (since Oct 19, 2014)…………………………………… 68
Novellas (since Nov 1, 2015)………………………………… 8
Short stories (since Apr 15, 2014)………………… 217
Short story collections……………………………………………… 31
Disclaimer: In this Journal I promote Writing Into the Dark, a Zen-like letting go and trusting yourself and your characters. I have never said (and never will) that WITD is the “only” way to write, but it greatly increases both your productivity and the amount of practice you get as a writer, and it provides a rapid ascension along the learning curve of Craft. This is not opinion. It is all numbers and facts.