The Journal, Friday, October 4

In today’s Journal

* Quote of the Day
* Yesterday
* Licensing Stuff
* Today
* Of Interest
* The Numbers

Quote of the Day

“A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses the moment of experience from which to look back or from which to look ahead.” Graham Greene

Yesterday we just got out of the house for most of the day. We enjoyed lunch and shopping and then got the oil changed on my pickup over in Sierra Vista. It even got a bath in one of those car wash places that grabs your tires and pushes you through. Almost like a very slow carnival ride, plus I got a clean truck. (grin)

There are a couple of great opportunities in today’s “Of Interest,” as well as some insight into the writing craft. I hope you’ll take advantage of it.

Licensing Stuff

I got an email from Dean this morning to announce that there are 7 new videos up in the year-long Licensing Transition course. If you haven’t signed up yet, you still can. To look it over, go to https://wmg-publishing-workshops-and-lectures.teachable.com/courses/ and click Licensing Transition.

In only the first three months of this year-long journey, I’ve already learned things that are worth well over the price of admittance.

Those of us who are signed up truly are learning along with Dean and Kris. In these 7 videos, he promised “A few changes in things, some new ways of looking at getting IP.” And wow, did he ever deliver! It’s an exciting world, an exciting time to be a writer (and owner of IP).

Today, I listened to the most recent vids in the Licensing Transition. I read a little more on my novel, then spent a little time doing things on my truck. Later today I’ll spend more time on the novel, and probably won’t do much fiction stuff during the weekend.

Oh, and thanks to those who are concerned re my medical procedure, but if I forgot to mention it, the doc moved the procedure from Oct 3 to Oct 10. So still looking forward to that. I’ll let you know how it goes.

Talk with you again soon.

Of Interest

See “The 2019 NaNoWriMo Writing Tools Bundle” at https://storybundle.com/nano. (You don’t have to do NaNoWriMo to learn from this bundle. The lecture alone is worth $50.)

See “23 Physical Abnormalities of Serial Killers” at https://www.suecoletta.com/23-physical-abnormalities-of-serial-killers/.

See “Special Project” at https://kriswrites.com/2019/10/03/special-project/.

The Numbers

Total fiction words for the month……… 1338
Total fiction words for the year………… 381569
Total nonfiction words for the month… 810
Total nonfiction words for the year…… 263500
Total words for the year (fiction and this blog)…… 645069

Calendar Year 2019 Novels to Date…………………… 7
Calendar Year 2019 Novellas to Date……………… 1
Calendar Year 2019 Short Stories to Date… 2
Novels (since Oct 19, 2014)…………………………………… 43
Novellas (since Nov 1, 2015)………………………………… 8
Short stories (since Apr 15, 2014)………………… 195
Short story collections……………………………………………… 31