In today’s Journal
* Quote of the Day
* Diary Continued
* Rules for Dealing with Traditional Magazine Editors
* The Numbers
Quote of the Day
“A year from now you will wish you had started today.” Karen Lamb
Diary Continued
Yesterday I got quite a bit done. I designed (or redesigned) 13 covers for novels (I cheated in that 11 of those used the same art for branding), wrote sales copy for 9 novels, republished two to D2D and Amazon, published one new one to D2D and Amazon (The Journey Home: Part 3) and scheduled one for preorder to be released on March 30 (The Portals) at the same two places.
Today I already made and sent off a few recommended minor additions and adjustments (that I agreed with) to one of the stories I sent Dean for the Cave Creek shared world anthologies. Still waiting to hear back on the other one.
Update: Heard back on the other one. Not surprisingly, he said that one didn’t end. (grin) That was really no surprise because I tried to force an ending just short of the word count limit. That’s the story I turned into a novel (The Portals), the one that will be released on March 30.
For the rest of today I’ll upload The Journey Home: Parts 4 through 8 for preorder and release. Because I’m fairly prolific and am playing catch up, I’ll probably release them every two weeks or so. And that will be that. I’ll spend what remains of today visiting with my son, then start the new novel tomorrow.
Rules for Dealing with Traditional Magazine Editors
There are only two rules, really, aside from sending them your best work at your current skill level in the first place:
1. Never keep an editor waiting.
2. Be patient while they keep you waiting.
Talk with you again soon.
Of Interest
See “The Period is Your Friend” at https://killzoneblog.com/2021/03/the-period-is-your-friend.html.
See “More Reading To Buy” at https://www.deanwesleysmith.com/more-reading-to-buy/.
The Numbers
The Journal…………………………………… 310 words
Writing of The Journey Home: Part 9 (novel)
Day 1…… XXXX words. Total words to date…… XXXXX
Total fiction words for March……… 36988
Total fiction words for the year………… 235996
Total nonfiction words for March… 11420
Total nonfiction words for the year…… 57450
Total words for the year (fiction and this blog)…… 293446
Calendar Year 2021 Novels to Date…………………… 5
Calendar Year 2021 Novellas to Date……………… X
Calendar Year 2021 Short Stories to Date… 3
Novels (since Oct 19, 2014)…………………………………… 59
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 it both regularly and publicly, I will continue to do so, among myriad other topics.