Not Moving, HarveyStanbrough.com and Mentorships

In today’s Journal

* Quote of the Day
* Sorry for the Confusion
* Not Moving
* The City That Is HarveyStanbrough.com
* Mentorships Slots Are Open
* Of Interest

Quote of the Day

“As a child, I felt that books were holy objects, to be caressed, rapturously sniffed, and devotedly provided for. I gave my life to them. I still do. I continue to do what I did as a child; dream of books, make books and collect books.” Maurice Sendak

Sorry for the Confusion

In yesterday’s Journal, I whined a bit about getting so few opens and click-throughs on my first newsletter sent from Revue.

I should have explained, that was a silly test newsletter to direct readers to check out the Welcome page and my free short story of the week, “Coralín.”

If you’re interested, that story is over at https://harveystanbroughwrites.com. Click the free short story tab. (In fact, I just added a new free short story this morning—”Rabbits & Wild Dogs”—but “Coralín” is still up too, for now. This time I remembered to include the cover too. (grin)

Not Moving

For awhile I was thinking about moving this Journal back over to my main site at HarveyStanbrough.com. I’d almost forgotten I’d mentioned that because it’s been at least a week ago. My brain is always in Race mode. Once I’ve seen that an idea works (or doesn’t) I move on. Guess I have an overdeveloped sense of urgency. (grin)

Anyway, just to clarify, if I ever DID decide to move the Journal, I would give you plenty of notice. I’d probably let you know a month in advance and then do a countdown of days from the announcement to the move. That would give everyone an opportunity to see the notice before I moved the Journal.

However, not long after I first mentioned that moving the Journal was an option, I decided I like it here. So the chance I’ll ever move the Journal is extremely slim. Ours is a nice, clean neighborhood. Folks stop by to visit now and then, and everything’s far cleaner here than it is at the dimly lit, scarred big city of HarveyStanbrough.com.

The City That Is HarveyStanbrough.com

For any newbies, I’ll talk for a moment about what I typically call “the big site” over at HarveyStanbrough.com. There are far more amenities over there than there are here. Here you have only the Journal itself, a link to my free tutorial on Microsoft Word for Writers, the free Journal Archives, and a few other things.

Over there you’ll find reader and writer resources, free downloads, my books in bundles (no doubt covered with dust and cobwebs), the audio lecture series, plus links to my publisher site and my novels, novellas, short stories and story collections, poetry collections and books on writing.

There are around 25 items on the Free Downloads page alone. On the Resources for Writers page are 20 links, most of which lead to other pages full of links.

For example, if you click Resources for Writers and then Conversion Tools, you’ll find 22 links to different conversion tools. If you click Dictionaries, you’ll find almost 20 free dictionaries or translators. And so on. When you have some spare time, I hope you’ll drop by and explore.

Mentorships Slots Are Open

I’ve had a few folks complete their mentorships, so I have a few slots open. The mentorships are conducted via email, cost only $25 per month, and cover whatever writing or publishing topics you want to talk about. There are also Extended Q&A Sessions available. For more details, see https://hestanbrough.com/new-mentorships/.

Go Vote, Please.

Talk with you again soon.

Of Interest

See “Go Vote!” at https://deanwesleysmith.com/go-vote-2/.

See “Dream Hacking” at https://killzoneblog.com/2022/11/dream-hacking.html. Stephen King often uses this advanced technique.

The Numbers

The Journal…………………………………… 620 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
Day 14… 1325 words. Total words to date…… 36518
Day 15… 1006 words. Total words to date…… 37524
Day 16… 2532 words. Total words to date…… 40056

Total fiction words for November……… 7105
Total fiction words for the year………… 168630
Total nonfiction words for November… 5300
Total nonfiction words for the year…… 180930
Total words for the year (fiction and this blog)…… 349560

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: Because It Makes Sense, I promote the idea of trusting your characters to tell the story that they, not you, are living. Duh. This practice greatly increases your productivity and provides a rapid ascension along the learning curve of Craft because you get a great deal more practice at actually writing. This is not opinion. It is all numbers and facts.