In today’s Journal
* Recap
* Quiet the Critical Voice (and Write Fiction) and Change of Plans
* Daily diary
* Of Interest
* The numbers
Yesterday I attended the Adding Suspense workshop and thoroughly enjoyed it. It’s more of an awareness workshop than anything else, bent toward teaching the writer how to study the suspense element in other works.
For the workshop, DWS broke suspense down into five major elements, yet those elements are intertwined when at work in the novel. It was interesting to see how they interact (and are interdependent) on the micro level.
No telling how much I picked up that will seep into my subconscious and flow out through my fingers as I write. (grin)
Before you take this workshop, I strongly recommend you know how to pull the reader deep into the POV character’s head, how to ground the reader deep in the setting, and how and how and when to use cliffhangers.
I didn’t do much else yesterday.
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For those who missed it, Quiet the Critical Voice (and Write Fiction) is now available through all vendors via this universal link: https://books2read.com/u/bWRDNW.
That’s the cover for it on the left. I set the official price at $8.99.
I found out yesterday, for some reason the Amazon edition does not have a table of contents. I’m not sure why.
I recommend you buy the book at either Smashwords — where you can download any version — or direct from me for 11% off by sending $8 via PayPal to harveystanbrough@gmail.com. Then email me to let me know which version(s) you’d like.
Thanks for your continued support of my writing and my books.
I also recently released the novella, Change of Plans, a western romance starring Sam Loredo. I won’t bore you with the cover. You can see it (and find the book) at https://books2read.com/u/b6jN2M.
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Rolled out at 3 this morning, groggy but determined.
Like yesterday, today and tomorrow also will be dedicated to learning. I’ll watch a series of tutorials on Affinity Publisher, then spend some time practicing what I learn.
Sometime this weekend I also plan to virtually attend Dean’s Pacing workshop again, just to see whether I glean anything new this time around.
Of course this being the weekend, both days will be relatively short.
And as I’ve been telling my subconscious, who’s chomping at the bit, we’ll begin writing fiction again on Monday. (grin)
Talk with you again tomorrow.
Of Interest
See Michaele Lockhart’s “Random Musings on Controversy” at http://prowriterswriting.com/random-musings-on-controversy/. Great post.
See “Paul McCartney Took My Night” at https://www.deanwesleysmith.com/paul-mccartney-took-my-night/.
See “False Crime” at https://killzoneblog.com/2019/06/false-crime.html.
Fiction Words: XXXX
Nonfiction Words: 380 (Journal)
Total words for the day: 380
Writing of ()
Day 1…… XXXX words. Total words to date…… XXXXX
Total fiction words for the month……… 45233
Total fiction words for the year………… 351338
Total nonfiction words for the month… 26740
Total nonfiction words for the year…… 182300
Total words for the year (fiction and this blog)…… 533638
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