The Journal, Friday, January 26

Hey Folks,

Wow. It’s been an eventful week, and it isn’t over yet. Mona and I both caught the creeping crud hyper-flu that’s apparently going around in various parts of the US. I am a writer, so my first thought was Conspiracy.

But I was too weak to even think about writing (or holding my head up) and besides, The Stand was already written.

Got another copyediting job in late last week or early this week. (Thanks for the referral, Robert!)

I’m publishing this today only to let you know things finally SEEM to be clearing around the Stanbrough camp, and I hope to be back in full force (no idea what that means, but I’ve always liked the sound of it) by Monday.

Well, and to pass along a few interesting items. See you again on Monday, I hope.

Of Interest

See Dean’s “Tip of the Week” at https://www.deanwesleysmith.com/tip-of-the-week/.

Via The Passive Guy, see “New Author Earnings Report” at http://www.thepassivevoice.com/2018/01/new-author-earnings-report-2/. I recommend you don’t just skip to Dean’s place to read the OP, but see PG’s take on the whole thing.

And see “Walmart Now Kobo’s Retail Partner…” at https://the-digital-reader.com/2018/01/25/walmart-now-kobos-retail-partner-us-will-sell-kobo-ereaders-store/. Very exciting.

Fiction Words: XXXX
Nonfiction Words: 200 (Journal)
So total words for the day: 200

Writing of (working title)

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

Total fiction words for the month……… 38156
Total fiction words for the year………… 38156
Total nonfiction words for the month… 7280
Total nonfiction words for the year…… 7280
Total words for the year (fiction and this blog)…… 45436

Calendar Year 2018 Novels to Date………………………… 1
Calenday Year 2018 Novellas to Date…………………… 0
Calendar Year 2018 Short Stories to Date……… 0
Novels (since Oct 19, 2014)………………………………………… 28
Novellas (since Nov 1, 2015)……………………………………… 4
Short stories (since Apr 15, 2014)……………………………… 182