The Journal: Mad Genius Club

In today’s Journal

* Quote of the Day
* Thanks to a relatively obscure post
* I started
* The Numbers

Quote of the Day

“[I]n the [traditional publishing[ industry, it’s never about publishing what people want to read. It’s about ‘educating’ the public. Which has taken them from 100K plus printruns for midlist to 10k printruns for high list. The problem is it’s not a business plan. It’s a virtue signaling plan.” Mad Genius Club

Thanks to a relatively obscure post at The Passive Voice and a little digging, I stumbled across what might be a treasure trove at a place called Mad Genius Club.

You can find the trove with no digging at all by visiting https://madgeniusclub.com/navigating-from-writing-to-publication/. As always, I advise you to forget what doesn’t work for you and absorb what does.

As a personal note, I have to say I absolutely love the subhead of their site: “We’re not really mad. We’re just a little miffed.”

There’s no clear link to their blog posts, but if you visit the link in the second post in “Of Interest” below, you’ll see roughly a ton of archives in the sidebar.

I started a new novel yesterday. Numbers below.

Talk with you again soon.

Of Interest

See “Locard’s Exchange Principle for Mystery & Thriller Writers” at https://killzoneblog.com/2021/03/locards-exchange-principle-for-mystery-thriller-writers.html.

See “Time has come to talk of many things” (a new trend in covers) at https://madgeniusclub.com/2021/03/03/time-has-come-to-talk-of-many-things/. Thanks to PG.

See “UK Author Unions Launch Investigation Into
‘Partner [Subsidy] Publishing'” at https://www.thepassivevoice.com/uk-author-unions-launch-investigation-into-partner-publishing/. See PG’s take.

The Numbers

The Journal…………………………………… 250 words

Writing of The Journey Home: Part 8 (novel)

Day 1…… 4891 words. Total words to date…… 4891

Total fiction words for March……… 9118
Total fiction words for the year………… 208126
Total nonfiction words for March… 2530
Total nonfiction words for the year…… 48560
Total words for the year (fiction and this blog)…… 2566886

Calendar Year 2021 Novels to Date…………………… 4
Calendar Year 2021 Novellas to Date……………… X
Calendar Year 2021 Short Stories to Date… 3
Novels (since Oct 19, 2014)…………………………………… 58
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 it both regularly and publicly, I will continue to do so.