The Daily Journal, Monday, March 11

In today’s Journal

▪ Daily diary
▪ Of Interest
▪ The numbers

Rolled out at 2 and found some amazing stuff for “Of Interest.” If you write fiction and have the means, consider signing up for Dean’s Anthology Workshop for next year.

I’m a little stuck on the WIP. Somewhere along the way I lost interest in it. I’ve done this enough to know that means somewhere along the way the story veered in a wrong direction.

So at 4 when I opened the file, I scrolled up to the top and started reading. I’m not even cycling. Just reading. I think I’ll find the glitch this way.

Found it, fixed it, and added about a thousand new words. To the house for a break at 7:20.

I had plenty of time to write today, but instead I did various other things. So I had an okay writing day, but still not up to my normal numbers.

Talk with you again tomorrow.

Of Interest

See “2019 Goals Recap – Week #10” at https://phillipmccollum.com/2019-goals-recap-week-10/. MUCH more than a personal goals recap, Phillip offers insight into Dean’s Anthology workshop.

See “Lean Mean Opening Scenes – Superstars Writing Recap 8” at https://terryodell.com/lean-mean-opening-scenes-superstars-writing-recap-8/. This is not only a great post, but a whole host of possible post topics. I wonder how our Pro Writers Writing bloggers might handle the opening setting in their own work, for example, or characters, etc. (Hint hint.)

See “Nifty Blogs” at https://www.deanwesleysmith.com/nifty-blogs/. He lists two blog posts, one of which is below.

See “Face the Strange, The Adventures of a First-time Editor” at http://typosphere.com/2018/03/10/face-the-strange-the-adventures-of-a-first-time-editor/. A longer recap of the same workshop a year ago.

See “What Did You Say? Writing Realistic Dialogue” at https://killzoneblog.com/2019/03/what-did-you-say-writing-realistic-dialogue.html. I was pleased to see Elaine Viets’ post was not only titled Writing Realistic Dialogue (the title of one of my nonfiction books) but advises some of the same things I’ve been teaching for years. Be sure to check out the comments, especially the one from John Gilstrap. He nailed it.

See “Free Fiction Monday: Track 61” at https://kriswrites.com/2019/03/11/free-fiction-monday-track-61-2/.

Fiction Words: 1780
Nonfiction Words: 350 (Journal)
Total words for the day: 2130

Writing of Stern Talbot, PI: The Case of the Wayward Bullet (novel)

Day 1…… 2412 words. Total words to date…… 2412
Day 2…… 1563 words. Total words to date…… 3975
Day 3…… 1407 words. Total words to date…… 5382
Day 4…… 1373 words. Total words to date…… 6755
Day 5…… 1780 words. Total words to date…… XXXXX

Total fiction words for the month……… 23080
Total fiction words for the year………… 182138
Total nonfiction words for the month… 7430
Total nonfiction words for the year…… 58650
Total words for the year (fiction and this blog)…… 240788

Calendar Year 2019 Novels to Date………………………… 4
Calendar Year 2019 Novellas to Date…………………… X
Calendar Year 2019 Short Stories to Date……… X
Novels (since Oct 19, 2014)………………………………………… 41
Novellas (since Nov 1, 2015)……………………………………… 7
Short stories (since Apr 15, 2014)……………………… 193
Short story collections…………………………………………………… 31