In Today’s Journal
* Quote of the Day
* Only for Readers of TNDJ!
* Of Interest
* The Numbers
Quote of the Day
“Our First Teacher is our own heart.” Cheyenne proverb
Only for Readers of TNDJ!
An Off-the-Grid Stretch Goal!
You might consider this Stretch Goal Zero. (grin)
Our TRUE PULP Kickstarter surpassed its initial funding goal yesterday. Yay!
Now we’re reaching for that first stretch goal. But I want to do something special just for readers of TNDJ.
The Reward(s)
ANYONE who donates at least $20 to the True Pulp Kickstarter will receive
- EITHER the complete, 10-volume set of The Journey Home SF Saga (a $35 value)
- OR the Nonfiction Omnibus PLUS Writing Better Fiction (a $34 value).
- And if you donate at least $35, you get both (a $69 value).
Rewards are delivered as ebooks in PDF, .mobi, and .epub formats.
And yes, this offer is retroactive! If you’ve already supported the TRUE PULP Kickstarter for $20 or more, you can forward me the verification you received from Kickstarter and I’ll send your chosen reward.
Here’s how it works:
To qualify and receive your prize immediately,
- donate to TRUE PULP, then
- forward the verification email Kickstarter sends you to me at harveystanbrough@gmail.com.
- Be sure to let me know which prize (or prizes) you want.
- I’ll send your chosen gift or gifts within an hour or so.
But Don’t Delay!
This offer is good for only the next ten days, through June 16, and there’s no guarantee I’ll repeat it.
About the Prizes
The Journey Home Saga is a 10-volume ‘we went there’ science fiction saga featuring a generation ship and the interactions among the Repops (the repopulation passengers) and the crew of The Ark.
You can even sample the saga free. The first book is unfolding day by day in serial installments at Your Morning Serial. Did I say it’s free? Read the first installment here.
The price for this saga on Amazon and all other ‘big box’ stores is $39.99. At my StoneThread Publishing discount store the price is $34.99.
But you can get it right now from me by backing the TRUE PULP Kickstarter for only $20.
The Nonfiction Omnibus PLUS Writing Better Fiction includes my 4 best-selling books for fiction writers:
- Punctuation for Writers
- Writing Realistic Dialogue & Flash Fiction
- Quiet the Critical Voice and Write Fiction
- Writing Better Fiction
In the big-box stores, the four books total $39.98. At my StoneThread Publishing discount store the price is $33.98.
But again, you can get these four books right now from me by backing the True Pulp Kickstarter for only $20.
OR you can donate $35 to the Kickstarter and get the SF Journey Home Saga AND the writer’s bundle of four books.
Support the TRUE PULP Kickstarter today!
Thanks!
Of Interest
Inkers Con Use the Draft2Digital Coupon Code D2D25 to get $50 off.
ADVANCED MAGIC BAKERY… Chapter Three
My Co-Editor of “True Pulp” Joins Me to talk Kickstarter! This is a repeat, but it’s A LOT more than just about the Kickstarter.
Kristen Lamb and I Talk AI, the Future of Publishing, and the End of the World as We Know It! A little over an hour.
The Numbers
The Journal…………………………… 510
Writing of Blackwell Ops 45: Sam Granger | Ghost Trail 2
Day 1…… 2637 words. To date…… 2637
Day 2…… 3648 words. To date…… 6285
Day 3…… 3483 words. To date…… 9768
CUTS…… -4437 words. To date…… 5331
Day 4…… 3212 words. To date…… 8543
Day 5…… 2715 words. To date…… 11258
Day 6…… 2044 words. To date…… 13302
Day 7…… 2280 words. To date…… 15582
Day 8…… 2901 words. To date…… 18483
Day 9…… 2863 words. To date…… 21346
Day 10…. 3922 words. To date…… 25268
Fiction for June………………………. 11966
Fiction for 2025………………………. 475418
Nonfiction for June……………………. 4880
Nonfiction for 2025…………………… 131030
2025 consumable words…………….. 599938
2025 Novels to Date…………………….. 11
2025 Novellas to Date…………………… 0
2025 Short Stories to Date……………… 27
Novels (since Oct 19, 2014)…………….. 115
Novellas (since Nov 1, 2015)…………… 10
Short stories (since Apr 15, 2014)……… 297
Short story collections……………………. 29
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.
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