In today’s Journal
* Topic: In Protest of Hatred
* Another good day
* The Numbers
Topic: In Protest of Hatred
There are only two things I cannot personally tolerate: intolerance and hypocrites. But with that statement, when it comes to some writers, I repeat myself.
I despise writers (and people in general), who lade themselves with tons of unearned guilt, primarily to call attention to themselves and how wonderful they are, and then attempt to project that guilt onto others.
I despise writers who make absolutely certain they’re touching on all the accepted and expected social biases and preferences of the moment and then claim to be thinking or writing “outside the box” and pronounce themselve heroic for doing so.
I despise writers who decry capitalism in all its forms even as they make hundreds of thousands (or millions) of dollars per annum as capitalists.
I despise writers who project hatred in the name of equality and project themselves as defenders of people or groups who don’t want or need to be defended because they aren’t being attacked.
I despise writers who proclaim themselves a shining beacon of justice but shine their light in one very narrow direction.
And I despise writers who bite the hand that (no longer) feeds them.
But I find myself quite happy (though I am a little ashamed of that fact) that they are living in and enduring a private hell of their own construction.
Frankly, I would like it very much if writers in general (yes, even I) would all shut the hell up and remember they really don’t matter in the slightest (as they themselves constantly proclaim) and that their job is only to write stories that don’t matter either (yes, even mine) except as a few minutes’ or hours’ entertainment for those who enjoy reading them.
Perhaps it would do us all some good to understand that tolerance and “getting along” begins with each of us.
To all of those people, none of whom probably will read this anyway, I say “Pull up your big-person pants and just tell stories already.” Because seriously, seriously, you really aren’t all that. And if it doesn’t have to do with the writing craft, nobody cares what you think.
Another good day yesterday, the primary reason I posted today’s Journal.
Talk with you again soon.
Of Interest
See “12 Tips To Help Your Detective Become A Real Crime-Solving Pro” at https://leelofland.com/12-tips-to-help-your-detective-become-a-real-crime-solving-pro-2/.
See “Shake, Rattle, and Roll” at https://killzoneblog.com/2021/02/shake-rattle-and-roll.html.
See “I’m a Copyright Junkie” at https://www.deanwesleysmith.com/im-a-copyright-junkie/.
The Numbers
The Journal…………………………………… 400 words
Writing of How “Best” Is Defined (novel, tentative title)
Words brought forward……………………………………………… 6997
Day 1…… 5644 words. Total words to date…… 12641
Day 2…… 5799 words. Total words to date…… 18440
Day 3…… 6237 words. Total words to date…… 24677
Day 4…… 5620 words. Total words to date…… 30297
Total fiction words for February……… 44793
Total fiction words for the year………… 142270
Total nonfiction words for February… 9720
Total nonfiction words for the year…… 35050
Total words for the year (fiction and this blog)…… 182940
Calendar Year 2021 Novels to Date…………………… 2
Calendar Year 2021 Novellas to Date……………… X
Calendar Year 2021 Short Stories to Date… 1
Novels (since Oct 19, 2014)…………………………………… 56
Novellas (since Nov 1, 2015)………………………………… 8
Short stories (since Apr 15, 2014)………………… 215
Short story collections……………………………………………… 31