Generate Press, and Using Science in Fantasy

In today’s Journal

* Generate Press
* Using Science in Fantasy
* The Fabric of Reality
* The Writing
* Of Interest
* The Numbers

Generate Press

This is too important to hide away down in the Of Interest section.

A few days ago I mentioned Generate Press. It is hands-down the best, most pliable, and most responsive WordPress theme I’ve ever found.

If you run a WordPress.org site hosted by your own web hosting company (so not WordPress.com) I strongly recommend it.

And Tom Usborne, the founder and developer of Generate Press, is having a cyber sale. But according to an email I received yesterday, it’s almost over. Be sure to check it out soon if you’re interested. From the email,

“This is our BIGGEST SALE of the year! Check out the sale on our premium licenses.”

Even if you get there too late to take advantage of the sale, I suggest you go for it. There is no better WordPress theme, period.

Using Science in Fantasy

This article needs to be featured prominently too. This was written by Peggy Kurilla, one of our very own Journal readers, and it’s a great article.

You will probably note that it’s about twenty years old, but so what? Good advice and good information never goes stale. I recommend you check it out.

To do so, click “Using Science in Fantasy”.

The Fabric of Reality

Rikki Mongoose left this comment on yesterday’s post:

I like the extended idea of this paradox as it is described [in] The Fabric of Reality by David Deutsch.

Time traveller comes to room, turns time machine on and sets destination to 5 mins in past. Then he waits 5 mins and comes to portal.

He appears in same room in front of same time machine. Then he sees that door opens and he-in-the-past comes to the room, turns time machine on…

So every 5 mins a new copy of time traveller will appear in room.

I can’t solve it. But I once have written a sci fi story totally based on this paradox.

The Writing

Well, I won’t finish the current novel in 10 days. Probably closer to 13 or 14. I think I have around 10,000 to 15,000 words to go, maybe a little more.

This one wrote slowly. Every novel writes differently. But yesterday I cleared 4,000 words for the first time since my previous novel. So that felt good. (grin)

Talk with you again soon.

Of Interest

The Do’s and Do Not’s of Author Photos

The Numbers

The Journal……………………………… 410

Writing of Blackwell Ops 14: Charlie Task

Day 1…… 1359 words. To date…… 1359
Day 2…… 3002 words. To date…… 4361
Day 3…… 3349 words. To date…… 7710
Day 4…… 1687 words. To date…… 9397
Day 5…… 2271 words. To date…… 11668
Day 6…… 3095 words. To date…… 14763
Day 7…… 3924 words. To date…… 18687
Day 8…… 3278 words. To date…… 21965
Day 9…… 4093 words. To date…… 26058

Fiction for November…………………… 78426
Fiction for 2023…………………………. 397070
Fiction since August 1………………… 282525
Nonfiction for November……………… 27690
Nonfiction for the year……………… 255580
Annual consumable words………… 649143

2023 Novels to Date……………………… 8
2023 Novellas to Date…………………… 0
2023 Short Stories to Date……………… 7
Novels (since Oct 19, 2014)…………… 79
Novellas (since Nov 1, 2015)…………… 9
Short stories (since Apr 15, 2014)…… 235
Short story collections…………………… 31

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