The Journal: From our friend

In today’s Journal

* Quote of the Day
* From our friend
* In the second item
* Today
* Of Interest
* The Numbers

Quote of the Day

“Oh that tricksy critical mind. My biggest challenge. The only cure is writing anyway.” Karen Riggs, novelist

From our friend Bob B re the 20BooksTo50K writers’ conference in Vegas this week,

They’re already starting to post videos from this year’s conference at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTrqmZBt-FWUWnxWD2x5Ucg/videos.

Their Facebook Group is here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/20Booksto50k/.

Take advantage of this, folks. Tidbits like this don’t come along every day.
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In the second item in “Of Interest,” the author mentions difficulties he encountered with formatting his Word document for upload to Smashwords.

Apparently he hasn’t found my book, The Essentials of Digital Publishing, which is available, ironically, at Smashwords for only $10.

Of course, it’s also available as a free PDF download (the preferred format) by clicking https://harveystanbrough.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/DPubV2X.pdf.

Frankly, I don’t know why every writer doesn’t have a copy of this ebook. It’s free, informative, and entertaining to boot.

While you’re at it, look over all the other free stuff listed at https://harveystanbrough.com/downloads/.
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Today should be the penultimate day of the copyedit, coupled with some domestic tasks: picking up some meds, dropping off some used magazines, etc. I know. The uber-exciting life of a professional fiction writer, eh? (grin)

Talk with you again soon.

Of Interest

See “Why We Decided Next Year’s Business Master Class Will Be The Last” at https://kriswrites.com/2019/11/13/business-musings-the-reason-why-we-decided-next-years-business-master-class-will-be-the-last/. Glad Kris went ahead and released this.

See “Publishing Your Ebook Is Changing on Smashwords” at https://www.thebookdesigner.com/2019/11/publishing-your-ebook-is-changing-on-smashwords/.

See the comments on “Interesting Summary” at https://www.deanwesleysmith.com/interesting-summary/#comments. Don’t miss this, folks.

See “Old Advice” (and my comment) at https://www.deanwesleysmith.com/old-advice/.

See “Mistakes Many Writers Make” at https://killzoneblog.com/2019/11/mistakes-many-writers-make.html. I could add several to her list.

See “How and Why to Build a Twitter Following…” at https://www.janefriedman.com/twitter-for-unpublished-writers/. For what it’s worth.

The Numbers

Fiction words today…………………… 0
Nonfiction words today…………… 310 (Journal)

Total fiction words for the month……… 6481
Total fiction words for the year………… 391574
Total nonfiction words for the month… 9230
Total nonfiction words for the year…… 290310
Total words for the year (fiction and this blog)…… 681884

Calendar Year 2019 Novels to Date…………………… 7
Calendar Year 2019 Novellas to Date……………… 1
Calendar Year 2019 Short Stories to Date… 4
Novels (since Oct 19, 2014)…………………………………… 43
Novellas (since Nov 1, 2015)………………………………… 8
Short stories (since Apr 15, 2014)………………… 197
Short story collections……………………………………………… 31