In today’s Journal
* Bitter Mountain Moonlight is out!
* The novel continues
* Of Interest
* The Numbers
Bitter Mountain Moonlight is out!
Not a lot to talk about today. But hey, if anyone out there would like to see Bitter Mountain Moonlight, the Cave Creek anthology containing my short story, “Rider Jones and the Portal,” you can read about it at https://www.wmgpublishinginc.com/project/bitter-mountain-moonlight-a-cave-creek-anthology/.
Amazon’s Cave Creek series page is at https://amzn.to/3gW3tyO.
You can also find links to every book retailer where the ebook is available using this universal link: https://books2read.com/u/4ERdXz. (Amazon wasn’t there yet as of this morning.)
If you couldn’t tell, I’m very proud of this story. Not to mention it’s the story that spawned the novel I’m working on now. (grin)
The novel continues to go well, plugging along at a few thousand words per day. No end in sight, yet I feel like it might wrap in the next few days. At the moment I’m thinking of writing the 12th and final volume of the Wes Crowley saga when this one is finished. That will take a major time leap forward in the life of Rider Jones. And of course leave a lot of room for more novels about his life between the two events.
For some reason I dropped off of David Farland’s subscriber list to his writing tips. I’ve corrected that and am playing catch-up in “Of Interest” below.
Talk with you again soon.
Of Interest
See “THE 2021 WRITE STUFF STORYBUNDLE” at https://www.deanwesleysmith.com/the-2021-write-stuff-storybundle/.
See “Appealing to the Senses” at https://mystorydoctor.com/appealing-to-the-senses/. (I added this one to put the series together.)
See “Appealing to the Senses, Part 2” at https://mystorydoctor.com/appealing-to-the-senses-part-2-2/.
See “Appealing to the Senses, Part 3” at https://mystorydoctor.com/appealing-to-the-senses-part-3/.
See “What Makes A Good Author Newsletter?” at https://killzoneblog.com/2021/05/what-makes-a-good-author-newsletter.html.
The Numbers
The Journal…………………………………… 290 words
Writing of Rider Jones (novel)
the novella brought forward………… 17309 words
Day 7…… 3288 words. Total words to date…… 20597
Day 8…… 5145 words. Total words to date…… 25742
Day 9…… 2732 words. Total words to date…… 28474
Day 10… 4092 words. Total words to date…… 32566
Day 11… 2537 words. Total words to date…… 35103
Day 12… 2813 words. Total words to date…… 37916
Day 13… 3925 words. Total words to date…… 41841
Total fiction words for May……… 13367
Total fiction words for the year………… 384646
Total nonfiction words for May… 3460
Total nonfiction words for the year…… 88320
Total words for the year (fiction and this blog)…… 472966
Calendar Year 2021 Novels to Date…………………… 7
Calendar Year 2021 Novellas to Date……………… 1
Calendar Year 2021 Short Stories to Date… 3
Novels (since Oct 19, 2014)…………………………………… 60
Novellas (since Nov 1, 2015)………………………………… 9
Short stories (since Apr 15, 2014)………………… 217
Short story collections……………………………………………… 31
Disclaimer: In this blog, I provide advice on writing fiction. I advocate a technique called Writing Into the Dark. To be crystal clear, WITD is not “the only way” to write, nor will I ever say it is. However, as I am the only writer who advocates WITD both publicly and regularly, I will continue to do so, among myriad other topics.