Hey Folks,
Well, one more day on Pulp 6, which is now called Stern Talbot, PI: The Case of the Troubled Actress. That’s the cover over on the left.
I read it aloud over the past two days to my wife, and during that process I heard some fat that needed to be trimmed.
So I’m going to make another pass at it, strictly to trim anything that’s unnecessary.
I don’t usually do this, but it’s all part of the learning process. I’ll still be reading over it in creative mind, but anytime my subconscious tugs on me with that “too much” feeling, I’ll look that section over and trim the fat.
I should say too that most of the fat trimming will come during the first third of the novel. I might get away with trimming only the first few chapters. I think I’ll know when I glop up out of the fat and wade onto shore. (grin)
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I finished the read through and fat trimming by about 10:30, did the cover (FREE photo courtesy of Alonso Moreno at Unsplash at https://unsplash.com/) and published the thing.
This is a combination PI-noir-mystery with a little thriller thrown in at the second half of the book. (grin)
It should be a quick read. And I’m feeling generous.
If any of you would like it, email me at harveystanbrough@gmail.com and let me know whether you’d like it in Kindle, Nook/Apple or PDF. I’ll send it right out.
The offer is good for the weekend, so before Monday please.
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Kristine Kathryn Rusch, on being a storyteller, wrote, “Other people have to deal with the realities they’re given. I get to change mine, almost every day.” I like that.
But there’s a lot that I don’t like, frankly, in her blog post referenced in “Of Interest” today.
For example, there’s “After 9/11, I had to evaluate what a career in fiction meant to me. It … took me a long time to remember that fiction’s escape was just as important as running into those buildings.”
Ugh. Writing fiction is just as important as putting your life in jeapordy to save the lives of others? Really?
And there’s a segment on Oprah, who, in my personal opinion, is a self-serving hypocrite. I can’t stand her and her “look at what I did for so and so” approach to life. Or that fact that she’d surrounded by gun-wielding bodyguards even at anti-gun rallies.
But there’s some good in the post too. That’s why I decided to reference it and share it in today’s Journal.
The first part, where she talks about the Anthology Workshop that just ended, is sort of enlightening. And the post is especially perceptive inthe section that begins with “When ebooks broke publishing open…”.
Anyway, you can access the whole thing below. Some of you will like what I didn’t like. And that’s fine. That’s part of what the folks who run into buildings ensure for the rest of us.
I wrote all of the stuff above, then almost forgot to post today’s Journal. (grin)
Be back soon.
Of Interest
See Dean’s “Hit an Exhaustion Wall” at https://www.deanwesleysmith.com/hit-an-exhaustion-wall/. More info on the Webinar classes if you scroll down.
See “Storytelling Universes” at https://kriswrites.com/2018/03/07/business-musings-storytelling-universes/.
Fiction Words: XXXX
Nonfiction Words: 530 (Journal)
So total words for the day: 530
Writing of (working title)
Day 1…… XXXX words. Total words to date…… XXXXX
Total fiction words for the month……… 20463
Total fiction words for the year………… 71768
Total nonfiction words for the month… 3200
Total nonfiction words for the year…… 22530
Total words for the year (fiction and this blog)…… 102318
Calendar Year 2018 Novels to Date………………………… 2
Calenday Year 2018 Novellas to Date…………………… 0
Calendar Year 2018 Short Stories to Date……… 0
Novels (since Oct 19, 2014)………………………………………… 29
Novellas (since Nov 1, 2015)……………………………………… 4
Short stories (since Apr 15, 2014)……………………………… 182