The Journal: A Stuffed-Sausage of a Chihuahua

In today’s Journal

* Quote of the Day
* Yesterday
* Today
* Of Interest
* The Numbers

Quote of the Day

“Jesus, where the hell is everybody when they first deliver the typing paper? Where are all the ‘helpers’ when those boxes full of silence come in? Blank. Both sides. No clue, no instructions enclosed on how to take just twenty-six letters and endlessly rearrange them so that they can turn them into a mirror of a part of our lives. Try it sometime.” Larry Gelbart

Yesterday I fell short of my new word-count goal by around 900 words (see Day 13). In fact, I didn’t get as much done as I did the day before.

I’ll start this morning by reading over my reverse outline, then the last chapter I wrote to see whether maybe I took a wrong turn.

Today I rolled out early thanks to the neighbor’s idiot dog, an ugly little stuffed-sausage of a chihuahua with a hyper-shrill bark. I’ll never understand why, when a dog barks incessantly at night, the owner won’t get up to at least see what the dog’s barking at. Which 99.999% of the time is Nothing. Or a moth. Or a leaf.

Well, I have writing to do. Maybe he’ll shut up soon.

Talk with you again soon.

Of Interest

See “May Workshops Starting” at https://www.deanwesleysmith.com/may-workshops-starting/.

See “Ebook Formatting with a Mac” at https://www.thepassivevoice.com/ebook-formatting-with-a-mac/. (Alison? Robert? Any other Mac users out there? Maybe you can help the guy out.)

See “I’d like to introduce Mr. Cliff Hanger” at https://prowriterswriting.com/id-like-to-introduce-mr-cliff-hanger.

See “The @PublishrsWeakly Twitter Account Is Calling Publishing to Task” at https://www.thepassivevoice.com/the-publishrsweakly-twitter-account-is-calling-publishing-to-task/.

See “Indie Publishing in the Time of Covid” at https://www.thepassivevoice.com/indie-publishing-in-the-time-of-covid/.

See “28 Themed Calls for Submissions” at https://www.authorspublish.com/28-themed-submissions-calls-for-writers-may-2020/.

Under the Sure, Why Not? department, if any of you are still chasing agents, see “5 Literary Agents Reveal the 9 Pitching Mistakes Authors Make” at https://www.livewritethrive.com/2020/05/04/5-literary-agents-reveal-the-9-pitching-mistakes-authors-make/.

See “Obscura Academy Challenge: Make Your Own Amazing Maps” at https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/obscura-academy-map-challenge. Some good stuff here down in the article.

The Numbers

Fiction words yesterday…………………… 4121
Nonfiction words today…………… 330 (Journal)

Writing of The Good of the Galaxy 2 (novel)

Day 9…… 3258 words. Total words to date…… 34842
Day 10… 4682 words. Total words to date…… 39524
Day 11… 3881 words. Total words to date…… 43405
Day 12… 4361 words. Total words to date…… 47766
Day 13… 4121 words. Total words to date…… 51887

Total fiction words for the month……… 17045
Total fiction words for the year………… 296639
Total nonfiction words for the month… 3580
Total nonfiction words for the year…… 106690
Total words for the year (fiction and this blog)…… 403329

Calendar Year 2020 Novels to Date…………………… 4
Calendar Year 2020 Novellas to Date……………… X
Calendar Year 2020 Short Stories to Date… 12
Novels (since Oct 19, 2014)…………………………………… 49
Novellas (since Nov 1, 2015)………………………………… 8
Short stories (since Apr 15, 2014)………………… 208
Short story collections……………………………………………… 31

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