Hey Folks,
Well, it’s taking a little time to get used to everything.
The long and short of my personal stuff is that my heart function is down to 10-15% (from 45% for the past 18 years) and I’m wearing an external defibrillator for awhile. It’s an awkward device that makes every action a little different and a little more complicated. We’re hopeful everything will be resolved in the next few weeks.
Very late getting to the Hovel and the novel this morning. An old Marine Corps friend called and we talked for about an hour. He’s from the early days, maybe the mid-’70s. And then I no sooner got to the Hovel and settled in when my son called from Indianapolis. So that was nice.
Finally turned to the novel at 10. By 11:30, I’d cycled back over part of it, and I wrote a little, and by then I was worn out. I only added a few hundred words, so I’m not going to count this as a writing day.
So I’m gonna shelve it for the day and come back to it tomorrow. I’m going to try to keep this Journal going even on days when I don’t write fiction. Most days I’ll have something useful for you at least in “Of Interest.”
And I hope to be back in the full swing of the novel before too long. I’d still like to finish this one before the month is out and then schedule all three novels for release about a month apart.
Talk with you again soon.
Of Interest
Well, feast or famine. Yesterday I was playing catch up, and today there’s nothing in this section.
I do recommend you stop by http://leelofland.com and subscribe to his DyingWords blog, especially if you’re a crime writer. But the advice on his blog is good for writers in ANY genre. Bad guys and crime show up even in Romances, right? So at least check it out.
Fiction Words: XXXX
Nonfiction Words: 330 (Journal)
So total words for the day: 330
Writing of Nick 3 (novel, tentative title)
Day 1…… 3422 words. Total words to date…… 3422
Day 2…… 2664 words. Total words to date…… 6086
Day 3…… 3190 words. Total words to date…… 9276
Day 4…… 1090 words. Total words to date…… 10366
Day 5…… 1466 words. Total words to date…… 11832
Day 6…… 2859 words. Total words to date…… 14691
Day 7…… 3362 words. Total words to date…… 18053
Day 8…… 2465 words. Total words to date…… 20518
Day 9…… 1177 words. Total words to date…… 21695
Day 10… XXXX words. Total words to date…… XXXXX
Total fiction words for the month……… 21995
Total fiction words for the year………… 336726
Total nonfiction words for the month… 12410
Total nonfiction words for the year…… 130226
Total words for the year (fiction and this blog)…… 466702
Calendar Year 2018 Novels to Date………………………… 7
Calenday Year 2018 Novellas to Date…………………… 2
Calendar Year 2018 Short Stories to Date……… 11
Novels (since Oct 19, 2014)………………………………………… 33
Novellas (since Nov 1, 2015)……………………………………… 6
Short stories (since Apr 15, 2014)………………………… 193
Days of writing fiction every day………………………… 0
As I said before, take care of yourself. You’re more important than the next book or the next blog post. We will understand when you need to skip a day for whatever reason. Don’t put undue stress on yourself. We will still be here.
Hopefully the docs have a plan forward.
Thanks JR. No stress here. Just a little annoyance and new stuff to overcome.