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In today’s Journal * Quotes of the Day * Welcome * Let the Characters Speak * Update on the Laptop Drama * Of Interest * The Numbers Quotes of the Day “‘I get pleasure out of it,’ says the pugnacious Harlan Ellison about typing on his Olympia SG3. This toylike aspect, the fun of using the machine itself, is indistinguishable from its utility as a writer’s tool.” Jeff Ward (see Of Interest) “And therefore education at the University mostly worked by the age-old method of putting a lot of young people in the vicinity of a lot of books and … Read more

In today’s Journal * Quote of the Day * Welcome * Session Three Posted * A New Short Story, Novella, Novel Template * Tumbleweed (Russian Thistle) Flowers * On Being Unstuck in Time in a Novel * Bradbury Challenge Writers Reporting * Of Interest * The Numbers Quote of the Day “I became my own shrink and asked myself, ‘What is your ultimate fear in writing?’ Answer is no one will read my work. Well, no one is reading it when it sits unfinished and/or unpublished, so it’s a self-fulfilling prophecy.” Philip “Big Philly” Smith Welcome Welcome to Kimberly S, … Read more

In today’s Journal * Quotes of the Day * Welcome * The Writing * Quiet the Critical Voice * Of Interest * The Numbers Quotes of the Day “You will lose someone you can’t live without, and your heart will be badly broken, and the bad news is that you never completely get over the loss of your beloved. But this is also the good news. They live forever in your broken heart that doesn’t seal back up. And you come through. It’s like having a broken leg that never heals perfectly—that still hurts when the weather gets cold, but … Read more

In today’s Journal * Quotes of the Day * From Yer Uncle Harv — Suspense * On Setting Goals and Being Prolific * Of Interest * The Numbers Quotes of the Day “No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly; and this self-deceit is even stronger with respect to the offspring of the mind.” Miguel de Cervantes “If you stuff yourself full of poems, essays, plays, stories, novels, films, comic strips, magazines, music, you automatically explode every morning like Old Faithful.” Ray Bradbury “The first step to being a writer is to hitch your unconscious mind to your writing … Read more

In today’s Journal * Quotes of the Day * Bradbury Challenge Writers Reporting * I Get Emails * Some Thoughts on Writing Fiction (guest post) * Of Interest Quotes of the Day “A serious writer draws from the well of his own soul, his own beliefs, and his own experience. The invitation for others to enter, mix, affect, alter and modify his work poisons the well.” Dan Baldwin “I’m never really alone writing fiction. My characters take over. The push, pull, cajole, entreat, beg and bully in a cacophony reminiscent of a third-grade classroom when the teacher had to step … Read more

I did not want to embed videos in this post. I wanted only to display links. Why does WordPress and other platforms (ahem, Substack) remove our ability to choose? What does it possibly matter to them? In today’s Journal * Quotes of the Day * Famous Writers Speak * A Novel Published * A New Novel * Of Interest Quote of the Day “[T]rust your own writing and voice. Act like an artist instead of a doormat for heaven’s sake.” Dean Wesley Smith Famous Writers Speak I hope I’ve been intelligent enough to share these with you before, but just … Read more

In today’s Journal * The Origin Story Wrapped * No More Stupid Streak Challenge * Too Necessary for “Of Interest” * Of Interest The Origin Story Wrapped Every novel writes differently. Yawn, stretch. How many times have I said that? I keep waiting for them to run out of new ways to write and start repeating. Hasn’t happened yet. As far as I can remember, I’ve never written any story of any length before in which I wrote the ending long before the entire story was laid out. I did that with this one. A few days ago (Writing Day … Read more