In today’s Journal
* Still not back
* Stormy weather
* Of Interest
* The Numbers
Yeah, I’m still not back. Not really. Not as a writer of fiction. Soon, I think, but who knows. I did write a little fiction yesterday, but nothing I’m including in my word count anywhere.
I’ll probably write more today and tomorrow and so on until one day it “takes” and I’ll be off and running again.
Really, I’m posting this today mostly to get the items in “Of Interest” out to you. If I drop away for another day or three, don’t worry about it. Just working through the fog.
In the meantime, apparently a gnat passed gas in Montana somewhere, which caused a power outage here in St. David Arizona.
But about the time I got into a good grumble about that, clouds DID pile up in every direction but Down. I dragged a chair out into the driveway so I could watch the artistic flashes from the lightning storm to the east. And a half-hour or so later, the wind picked up (a lot), and the clouds all met in the middle. I and my chair went back into the yard. We retained our dignity. We did not run.
We got one and a quarter inches of rain in roughly an hour, and this morning another half-inch had been added. So yay. Rain is good, gas-passing gnats aside.
Talk with you again soon.
Of Interest
See “Things to Consider for Successful Book Signings” at https://killzoneblog.com/2021/08/things-to-consider-for-successful-book-signings.html.
See “She Thinks My Tractor’s Sexy” at https://www.thepassivevoice.com/she-thinks-my-tractors-sexy/. MAN i love the truth, and PG’s take is definitely the truth.
See “Stop the Lies” at https://dailyreckoning.com/stop-the-lies/. A great (and increasingly rare) honest article, and chock full of story ideas.
The Numbers
The Journal…………………………………… 290 words
Writing of WCGN 5: Tentative Title (novel)
Day 1…… XXXX words. Total words to date…… XXXXX
Total fiction words for August……… 6933
Total fiction words for the year………… 623282
Total nonfiction words for August… 3530
Total nonfiction words for the year…… 149960
Total words for the year (fiction and this blog)…… 773242
Calendar Year 2021 Novels to Date…………………… 13
Calendar Year 2021 Novellas to Date……………… 1
Calendar Year 2021 Short Stories to Date… 3
Novels (since Oct 19, 2014)…………………………………… 66
Novellas (since Nov 1, 2015)………………………………… 8
Short stories (since Apr 15, 2014)………………… 217
Short story collections……………………………………………… 31
Disclaimer: In this blog, I provide advice on writing fiction. I advocate a technique called Writing Into the Dark. To be crystal clear, WITD is not “the only way” to write, nor will I ever say it is. However, as I am the only writer who advocates WITD both publicly and regularly, I will continue to do so, among myriad other topics.