In Today’s Journal
* The TNDJ Challenges Report
* An Apology
* Of Interest
* The Numbers
The TNDJ Challenges Report
Participating in any challenge is a great way to have fun and grow as a writer.
There is no cost. Feel free to jump in at any time. To do so, email me at harveystanbrough@gmail.com with your results anytime before TNDJ goes live on any Monday.
Bradbury Challenge
The requirement is to write at least one short story or short-short story per week. During the past week, the following writers wrote these new stories:
- Erin Donoho “A Conversation About Conversation” 2600 words historical fiction
- Loyd Jenkins “Choice of the Water” 4280 Gothic Horror
- Vanessa V. Kilmer “Moonraker” 3001 Dystopian Syfy
- Christopher Ridge “The Spare Room” 2790 psychological
- Christopher Ridge “No Exit. No Spray” 4102 Action/ horror
- KC Riggs “Mud Puddles” 4291 General Fiction
- Dave Taylor “When the Morning Comes ” 2,247 Magical Realism/post apocalypse
- Dave Taylor “Red Sun” 3,825 Magical Realism/post apocalypse
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The Stephen King Challenge
The requirement is to average at least 1000 words per day. The words can go into any short or long fiction or both.
- Balázs Jámbor No report this week.
- Violet Vincent 6464 words this week.
Congratulations to all of these writers.
An Apology
Sorry I linked to the one-sided political commentary included in Dr. Mardy Grothe’s Quotes of the Week yesterday. I felt a little rushed so I didn’t vet his post before I linked to it.
Plainly put, I don’t promote political views in TNDJ.
We all have our own world view, and we don’t have to agree. That is as it should be. None of that has anything to do with writing fiction.
From this time forward, I will vet every post I link to in Of Interest. If I don’t have time to vet it, I won’t link to it.
Likewise, if I vet it and find that its value to fiction writers is outweighed by any other considerations, I also won’t link to it. This is a blog about writing fiction, after all.
Thanks for hanging around. I’ll be back soon with something good on the topic of writing fiction. If there are any topics on writing or publishing you’d like to see me cover, leave a comment or email me.
Of Interest
Dean Wesley Smith “Attitude of a Writer” Video, about 45 minutes
The Numbers
The Journal………………….. 380
Mentorship Words…………….. 0
Total Nonfiction…………………. 380
Writing of
Day 1…… XXXX words. To date………… XXXXX
Fiction for January………………………… XXXX
Fiction for 2026…………………………… XXXX
Nonfiction for January.…………………… 3500
Nonfiction for 2026………………..……… 3500
2026 consumable words………………… 3500
2026 Novels to Date……………………… 0
2026 Novellas to Date…………………… 0
2026 Short Stories to Date……………… 0
Novels (since Oct 19, 2014)…………….. 123
Novellas (since Nov 1, 2015)…………… 10
Short stories (since Apr 15, 2014)……… 310
Short story collections……………………. 29