In today’s Journal
* Quotes of the Day
* Nothing to Talk About Today
* A Reminder
* Of Interest
* The Numbers
Quotes of the Day
“I think it is not just about not planning, but not thinking at all while writing. I just follow my characters and write down how their stories unfold. When I think about how the story should go, I step into the way of my characters.” Balázs Jambor
“This week I struggled with my writing, until I got to the revelation that I don’t have to wait to write until I feel good enough to do it (until my muse calls). [W]riting is what makes me feel good.” Balázs Jambor
Nothing to Talk About Today
The Quotes of the Day are good and there are some good links in “Of Interest.” I’ll have more for you tomorrow, probably. I’m in a bit of a writing frenzy. (grin)
A Reminder
You Challenge folks be sure to get your titles and numbers in to me before the Journal goes live tomorrow morning.
Talk with you again soon.
Of Interest
See “…conceive babies in space” at https://interestingengineering.com/science/startup-creates-ivf-incubator-to-conceive-babies-in-space.
See “My Total F’ Up!” at https://www.youtube[dot]com/live/aHLpipJOrBs.
See “Nahanni – Valley of the Headless Human Cadavers” at https://dyingwords.net/nahanni-valley-of-the-headless-human-cadavers/.
See “Arizona Rangers State Museum – Tombstone, AZ” at https://azrangers.us/arizona-rangers-museum/.
See “The Pulp Magazines Project” at https://pulpmags.org/. (Thanks to A. Nakul)
The Numbers
The Journal……………………………… 220
Writing of Blackwell Ops 10: Jeremy Stiles
The Way Things Go
Day 1…… 1635 words. To date…… 1635
Day 2…… 2464 words. To date…… 4099
Day 3…… 1615 words. To date…… 5714
Day 4…… 3808 words. To date…… 9522
Fiction for September…………………… 21504
Fiction since August 1………………… 124159
Fiction for 2023………………………… 173813
Nonfiction for September……………… 6530
Nonfiction for the year……………… 181000
Annual consumable words………… 354813
2023 Novels to Date……………………… 3
2023 Novellas to Date…………………… 0
2023 Short Stories to Date……………… 4
Novels (since Oct 19, 2014)…………… 74
Novellas (since Nov 1, 2015)…………… 9
Short stories (since Apr 15, 2014)… 232
Short story collections…………………… 31
Disclaimer: I am a prolific professional fiction writer. On this blog I teach Writing Into the Dark and adherence to Heinlein’s Rules. Unreasoning fear and the myths of writing will slow your progress as a writer or stop you cold. I will never teach the myths on this blog.