The Daily Journal, Thursday, August 22

In today’s Journal

* I kind of like
* Daily Diary
* Of Interest
* The numbers

I kind of like this new schedule, posting the Journal early and reporting fiction the following day. I don’t know that I’ll keep it, but I suspect I will.

For one thing it takes the pressure off. I can write fiction at any time of day or night, and I’m not limited by needing to get the Journal out at a particular time.

I had a fairly good day yesterday with a few thousand words (see below), especially after not writing fiction at all for 40 of the last 51 days. Ugh.

We’ll see how it works as the days continue to unfold. I already know today will probably be a nonwriting day as I’ll be in Tucson all day doing medical stuff.
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I prepped much of this Journal entry yesterday. This morning I came out to find items of interest, then post it and get ready to go to Tucson.

I was typing along just fine yesterday at 2:19 when the gods decreed that the power should go out. Because my writing ‘puter has practically no battery, I stopped and filled in the numbers below.

And this morning? This morning I rolled out at 3, thinking I might fool myself and get a little fiction writing done. Then I sidetracked myself listening to a few podcasts. So we’ll see. If I write fiction today, numbers tomorrow.

Talk with you again tomorrow.

Of Interest

See “Business Musings: The Decision Tree (Rethinking The Writing Business Part Eight)” at https://kriswrites.com/2019/08/21/business-musings-the-decision-tree-rethinking-the-writing-business-part-eight/.

See “Two Questions for Better Writing Productivity” at https://theprolificwriter.net/blog-podcast/2019/two-questions-for-better-writing-productivity.

See “Random Thoughts On Ghostwriting” at http://prowriterswriting.com/random-thoughts-on-ghostwriting/.

See “Pulphouse Subscription Drive” at https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/403649867/pulphouse-subscription-drive.

If you enjoy podcasts, listen to “TPW 105: J.P. Choquette on [Writing] Page Turning Thrillers” at https://theprolificwriter.net/blog-podcast/2019/tpw-105-jp-choquette-on-page-turning-thrillers. The interview begins at about 4:10.

Not about writing at all, but see “True Crime Thursday – Elder Fraud…” at https://killzoneblog.com/2019/08/true-crime-thursday-elder-fraud-and-a-book-giveaway.html.

Fiction Words: 2733 (yesterday)
Nonfiction Words: 330 (Journal)
Total words for the day: 3063

Writing of Blackwell Ops 7: Glen Marco (novel)

Day 1…… 3222 words. Total words to date…… 3222
Day 2…… 1170 words. Total words to date…… 4392
Day 3…… 3191 words. Total words to date…… 7583
Day 4…… 1374 words. Total words to date…… 8957
Day 5…… 1952 words. Total words to date…… 10909
Day 6…… 1021 words. Total words to date…… 11930
Day 7…… 2733 words. Total words to date…… 14663

Total fiction words for the month……… 14663
Total fiction words for the year………… 373400
Total nonfiction words for the month… 22000
Total nonfiction words for the year…… 240070
Total words for the year (fiction and this blog)…… 613470

Calendar Year 2019 Novels to Date…………………… 7
Calendar Year 2019 Novellas to Date……………… 1
Calendar Year 2019 Short Stories to Date… 2
Novels (since Oct 19, 2014)…………………………………… 43
Novellas (since Nov 1, 2015)………………………………… 8
Short stories (since Apr 15, 2014)………………… 195
Short story collections……………………………………………… 31

2 thoughts on “The Daily Journal, Thursday, August 22”

  1. So, business musings: wow. I’ll be rereading that before our next meeting. That looks like the path…
    Thanks! And hope today went well.

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