Hey Folks,
I’m slow on the uptake lately. For example, I feel bad when I don’t have a lot of writing to report in this Journal. But I realized, finally, that’s just silly.
A lot of writers (most, even?) intentionally take time off between projects. Well, we assume they’re taking time off. In reality, we don’t know whether they’re just busy with other things, are in a slump, or are fighting some other battle.
The difference here is that I’m slathering great gobs of my writing life (and my regular life as it affects my writing life) in public. Probably I should be arrested.
Is slathering in public against the law? If it isn’t, possibly it should be. Something to consider for that next town council meeting.
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Well, I almost left a placeholder post for today and headed out on a fairly long turnaround trip to NM. Eight hours each way plus the hour or so of turnaround in the middle.
Turned out it was a good thing I rethought the trip because there were a lot of considerations I hadn’t, you know, considered. Mostly because I didn’t know they existed.
Anyway, over the past 3+ hours I’ve settled tons of stuff. As you know, settled stuff ALWAYS beats unsettled stuff, even if you weren’t aware of it a short time before you settled it.
Back tomorrow.
Of Interest
Via The Passive Voice, see “Donald Bain, Widely Read Author (but Not by That Name), Dies at 82” at http://www.thepassivevoice.com/2017/10/donald-bain-widely-read-author-but-not-by-that-name-dies-at-82/.
Fiction Words: XXXX
Nonfiction Words: 260 (Journal)
So total words for the day: 260
Writing of Pulp Novel 5 (a Stern Richards novel)
Day 1…… 1080 words. Total words to date…… 1080
Day 2…… 2167 words. Total words to date…… 3247
Day 3…… 1370 words. Total words to date…… 4617
Day 4…… 1840 words. Total words to date…… 6457
Day 5…… 1193 words. Total words to date…… 7650
Day 6…… 1407 words. Total words to date…… 9057
Day 7…… 1180 words. Total words to date…… 10237
Day 8…… XXXX words. Total words to date…… XXXXX
Total fiction words for the month……… 12462
Total fiction words for the year………… 446608
Total nonfiction words for the month… 13760
Total nonfiction words for the year…… 166443
Total words for the year (fiction and this blog)…… 613051
The Daily Journal blog streak……………………………………… 698 days
Calendar Year 2017 Novels to Date………………………… 9
Novels (since Oct 19, 2014)………………………………………… 27
Novellas (since Nov 1, 2015)……………………………………… 4
Short stories (since Apr 15, 2014)……………………………… 182