In today’s Journal
* Terra 2
* Of Interest
* The Numbers
Terra 2 went live today. I only noticed because Books2Read (part of Draft2Digital) sent me a notice. (If you have a Draft2Digital account, you automatically have a B2R account with the same login information.) Anyway, here’s the skinny:
This is the tenth book in the Future of Humanity (FOH) series. After a long journey, General Amanda Lowrey has set the ship down on the new human home world: Terra 2.
But this is still an alien world, and the humans are not alone. Landing Site Eden and each of the satellite sites, each 50 miles from Eden to the north, east, south and west, have their own problems to deal with.
Come along and join the fun. Or the battles.
The universal link provided by Books2Read is one of the many reasons I use Draft2Digital as my main distributor. By clicking a single link, the prospective purchaser can choose to get the title from any major ebook store or subscription service.
Books2Read is clunky in only one way: If you distribute to any other stores yourself (separate from Draft2Digital), and if you want the B2R universal link to point to those stores, you will have to add those links manually to the B2R dashboard.
For example, I distribute to Amazon separately. So after the Books2Read generates a universal link, I have to go to my Books2Read dashboard and manually add the Amazon buy link.
When you have as many books as I do, and if you let it slide for awhile, that becomes a chore.
Talk with you again soon.
Of Interest
See “How Data Science Pinpointed the Creepiest Word in “Macbeth” at https://www.thepassivevoice.com/how-data-science-pinpointed-the-creepiest-word-in-macbeth/. Extremely interesting if you’re a word freak.
Also see “Short Story – The Immortal Bard – by Isaac Asimov” at http://www.mayofamily.com/RLM/txt_Asimov_TheImmortalBard.html.
See “Creating and Resolving Conflict in Your Novel” at https://killzoneblog.com/2021/08/creating-and-resolving-conflict-in-your-novel.html. Not sure why I bothered to post this. Just more regurgitation of the same old stuff.
The Numbers
The Journal…………………………………… 310 words
Writing of WCGN 5: Tentative Title (novel)
Day 1…… XXXX words. Total words to date…… XXXXX
Total fiction words for August……… 6933
Total fiction words for the year………… 623282
Total nonfiction words for August… 6150
Total nonfiction words for the year…… 152580
Total words for the year (fiction and this blog)…… 775862
Calendar Year 2021 Novels to Date…………………… 13
Calendar Year 2021 Novellas to Date……………… 1
Calendar Year 2021 Short Stories to Date… 3
Novels (since Oct 19, 2014)…………………………………… 66
Novellas (since Nov 1, 2015)………………………………… 8
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.