The Daily Journal, Friday, July 19

In today’s Journal

* Ridiculous Quote of the Day
* Update
* Daily diary
* Of Interest
* The numbers

Ridiculous Quote of the Day

Via the Kill Zone blog, “Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist or understand.” – George Orwell

LOL. Poor guy. Did nobody ever tell him writing is an elective process? He should’ve found something fun to do. (grin)

Update

First, today’s “Of Interest” is a self-publishing (not vanity publishing) crash course. I suggest you take notes, and take the time to visit the in-post links.

Yesterday we got most of the storage (all the major items) moved from the Hovel to the bay. We also began straightening up/rearranging the Hovel.

The front part of the Hovel (about a 20′ x 10′ space) looks a lot more like a writer’s garret now than a chunk carved out of a storage room.

That took up most of the morning. Then we drove into Benson for a Mexican food lunch, then to shop briefly for groceries, then home.

We had planned to watch and listen to Dean’s first few License Transitioning videos. But frankly, we were both too exhausted from the morning’s efforts to do that. First time we’ve missed our schedule, but we’ll get back to it tomorrow, situation willing.

Yesterday Mona also printed out several StoneThread Publishing URL stickers to place inside some of my remaining print books. She plans to distribute those to libraries, indie bookstores and used bookstores in the area. Great advertising. We’ll also probably offer some for sale on ebay (rare signed print editions still in the persona’s name).
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Rolled out a little late this morning at 4. Today I’ll straighten out and clean the Hovel. (We swept it yesteray. Took out shovels full of dirt, and everything’s covered with dust.) Then maybe I’ll write a little.

Nah, no writing fiction today. I worked on spreadsheets to figure out my inventory: novels and novellas, short stories, short story collections, poetry collections and nonfiction books. I also noted where and when each of those has been licensed up to this point.

It’ll be a little harder to find all the essays and other publications. I probably won’t ever find them all.

Later I’ll also catalogue all the individual poems and where they were published, at least those I can find. I have a lot more IP than I thought I had.

Well, my son should be here soon, so I’ll post this.

Talk with you again tomorrow.

Of Interest

See the comments on “Wow, What A Bad Ending” at https://www.deanwesleysmith.com/wow-what-a-bad-ending/#comments.

See “Photographer’s Copyright Claim Against Officer of Company over Photos on Website Moves Forward” at https://www.thepassivevoice.com/photographers-copyright-claim-against-officer-of-company-over-photos-on-website-moves-forward/. I list this because of PG’s take, which has a great deal to do with writing.

See “Amazon Self-Publishing Royalties and Costs: Here’s What You Need to Know” at https://blog.reedsy.com/amazon-self-publishing-royalties/.

See “The 13 BEST Self-Publishing Companies of 2019” at https://blog.reedsy.com/best-self-publishing-companies/.

See “What is the Best Service for Print on Demand Books?” at https://blog.reedsy.com/print-on-demand-books/.

See “Attempting To Explain What WITD/WITU Means to Me” at http://prowriterswriting.com/attempting-to-explain-what-witd-witu-means-to-me/.

Fiction Words: XXXX
Nonfiction Words: 530 (Journal)
Total words for the day: 530

Writing of ()

Day 1…… XXXX words. Total words to date…… XXXXX

Total fiction words for the month……… 7399
Total fiction words for the year………… 358737
Total nonfiction words for the month… 22650
Total nonfiction words for the year…… 206850
Total words for the year (fiction and this blog)…… 565587

Calendar Year 2019 Novels to Date…………………… 7
Calendar Year 2019 Novellas to Date……………… 1
Calendar Year 2019 Short Stories to Date… 1
Novels (since Oct 19, 2014)…………………………………… 44
Novellas (since Nov 1, 2015)………………………………… 8
Short stories (since Apr 15, 2014)………………… 194
Short story collections……………………………………………… 31