In Today’s Journal
* Quotes of the Day
* Nonfiction Omnibus Published
* Of Interest
* The Numbers
Quotes of the Day
“He doesn’t outline it, he writes it straight through.” Ajay Chowdhury in the documentary, “Icons Unearthed: James Bond,” speaking of Ian Fleming’s ‘stream of conscious’ writing style.
Thanks to my friend Robert J Sadler for the quote.
“I have the heart of a small boy. I keep it in a jar on my desk.” Stephen King
Nonfiction Omnibus Published
Okay, Nonfiction Omnibus is published. It contains the complete texts of
- Punctuation for Writers (2nd Edition),
- Writing Realistic Dialogue & Flash Fiction, and
- Quiet the Critical Voice and Write Fiction.
I read each one and updated here and there, but not enough to call any of the books a new edition. Which frankly was a relief.
Nonfiction Omnibus is available anywhere ebooks are sold for $24.99. Even at Amazon, though I had to bow to Amazon’s cheapskate 30% royalty.
Personal to Jeff Bezos: How do you sleep at night?
Anyway, Nonfiction Omnibus is also available at my own online store for only $19.99.
I realize all of you probably already have one or more of those titles. No worries. But if you want to spread the word about the omnibus to your writing friends, I would appreciate it. Do them a favor and send the link in the paragraph above.
My wife suggested I take this one to paper, but I just don’t know whether I’m up to spending anymore time with it, at least right now.
Plus taking on another learning curve does not pass Carpenter’s WIBBOW rule for me. I believe I absolutely would be better off getting back to my writing, so I’ll probably start a new novel today.
Or maybe I’ll put together a fiction omnibus or two. Or maybe I’ll do both. Being awake and breathing lends itself to all sorts of possibilities. (grin)
Talk with you tomorrow for the Bradbury report and maybe more.
Of Interest
Dr. Mardy’s Quotes of the Week: Learning From Experience Please keep Mardy in your thoughts, everyone.
The Numbers
The Journal…………………………… 340
Writing of
Day 1…… XXXX words. To date…… XXXXX
Fiction for February………………….. 37682
Fiction for 2025………………………. 159047
Nonfiction for February………………. 12300
Nonfiction for 2025…………………… 44280
2025 consumable words…………….. 196807
Average Fiction WPD (February)…….. 2899
Average Fiction WPD (Annual)……..… 3612
2025 Novels to Date…………………….. 4
2025 Novellas to Date…………………… 0
2025 Short Stories to Date……………… 7
Novels (since Oct 19, 2014)…………….. 108
Novellas (since Nov 1, 2015)…………… 10
Short stories (since Apr 15, 2014)……… 277
Short story collections……………………. 29
Disclaimer: Whatever you believe, unreasoning fear and the myths that outlining, revising, and rewriting will make your work better are lies. They will always slow your progress as a writer or stop you cold. I will never teach the myths on this blog.
Writing fiction should never be something that stresses you out. It should be fun. On this blog I teach Writing Into the Dark and adherence to Heinlein’s Rules. Because of WITD and because I endeavor to follow those Rules I am a prolific professional fiction writer. You can be too.