The Journal: Dylan Thomas and Dorothy Parker

In today’s Journal

* Quote of the Day
* From David Farland
* Today
* Of Interest
* The Numbers

Quote of the Day

“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.” Ralph Waldo Emerson (via The Passive Voice)

From David Farland,

“I have a free writing workshop that I teach with award-winning authors Orson Scott Card and Tim Power, based upon our popular Writers of the Future Workshops. Find it online at https://www.writersofthefuture.com/register/online-workshop/.”

I signed up for this workshop to see what it’s about. It feels to me like it might be a good thing for some writers. If you’re still looking around for what might work for you, this is one more place to look. You could do worse than learning from these three authors.

Today I’ll continue going through the novel I just finished. Then I’ll send it out to some of my first readers. There’s roughly a ton of writing ideas/scenarios/characters in “Of Interest” today. Enjoy.

Talk with you again soon.

Of Interest

See “The Story Behind Dylan Thomas’s “Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night” at https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-story-behind-dylan-thomas-s-do-not-go-gentle-into-that-good-night-and-the-poet-s-own-stirring. Includes Thomas reading the poem.

See “Dorothy Parker Reads “Inscription for the Ceiling of a Bedroom” in a Rare 1926 Recording” at https://www.brainpickings.org/2014/04/11/dorothy-parker-reads/.

See “Towing an Iceberg: One Captain’s Plan to Bring Drinking Water to 4 Million People” at https://getpocket.com/explore/item/towing-an-iceberg-one-captain-s-plan-to-bring-drinking-water-to-4-million-people.

See “Are Black Holes Actually Dark Energy Stars?” at https://getpocket.com/explore/item/are-black-holes-actually-dark-energy-stars.

See “Spiders Can Fly Hundreds of Miles Using Electricity” at https://getpocket.com/explore/item/spiders-can-fly-hundreds-of-miles-using-electricity.

See “Maxing Out Your Readership” at https://mystorydoctor.com/maxing-out-your-readership/.

See “Alice Munro, The Art of Fiction” at https://www.thepassivevoice.com/alice-munro-the-art-of-fiction/.

See “Readers mean well, but…” at https://prowriterswriting.com/readers-mean-well-but.

The Numbers

Fiction words yesterday…………………… XXXX
Nonfiction words today…………… 270 (Journal)

Writing of (novel)

Day 1…… XXXX words. Total words to date…… XXXXX

Total fiction words for the month……… 30061
Total fiction words for the year………… 309655
Total nonfiction words for the month… 7760
Total nonfiction words for the year…… 110870
Total words for the year (fiction and this blog)…… 420525

Calendar Year 2020 Novels to Date…………………… 5
Calendar Year 2020 Novellas to Date……………… X
Calendar Year 2020 Short Stories to Date… 12
Novels (since Oct 19, 2014)…………………………………… 50
Novellas (since Nov 1, 2015)………………………………… 8
Short stories (since Apr 15, 2014)………………… 208
Short story collections……………………………………………… 31