The Daily Journal, Saturday, June 22

In today’s Journal

* Daily diary
* Of Interest
* The numbers

Well, my son was coming down to spend the weekend with us, but the interstate between here and Flagstaff was closed near Phoenix due to a wildfire. So he ended up having to turn around and go back to Flag.

It’s all right. We’ll see him again soon.

In the meantime, I slept for only a few hours, restlessly, and finally got up. But I was wide awake, so I came to the Hovel and went straight to the WIP.

It wrapped as a novella after an hour and a half or so of writing.

Now I’m gonna check for items of interest, and then I’m going back inside a get a few more hours of sleep.

Talk with you again tomorrow.

Of Interest

See Michaele Lockhart’s “Words—To Take Your Heart Away” at http://prowriterswriting.com/words-to-take-your-heart-away/.

See “Challengers Doing Great!” at https://www.deanwesleysmith.com/challengers-doing-great/.

See “How To Create A Good Leader” at https://killzoneblog.com/2019/06/how-to-create-a-good-leader.html. It’s been my experience that those things in the article are true. However, the character reveals those traits as the story unfolds. There is no “creating” involved.

See “30 Free Ebooks” at https://jakonrath.blogspot.com/2019/06/30-free-ebooks.html. Free ebooks, plus maybe some marketing tips for your own work.

Fiction Words: 1473
Nonfiction Words: 220 (Journal)
Total words for the day: 1693

Writing of Sam Loredo and the Point of No Return (novella)

Day 1…… 2803 words. Total words to date…… 2803
Day 2…… 1035 words. Total words to date…… 3838
Day 3…… 4247 words. Total words to date…… 8085
Day 4…… 2540 words. Total words to date…… 10625
Day 5…… 2495 words. Total words to date…… 13120
Day 6…… 1591 words. Total words to date…… 14719
Day 7…… 1705 words. Total words to date…… 16424
Day 8…… 1473 words. Total words to date…… 17897 (done)

Total fiction words for the month……… 45233
Total fiction words for the year………… 351338
Total nonfiction words for the month… 22430
Total nonfiction words for the year…… 177990
Total words for the year (fiction and this blog)…… 529328

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