Hey Folks,
A fairly short Journal entry today. I’m sure you’re relieved after the past few days. (grin)
Wow, what a day. A dear friend asked yesterday for a copy of a short story I wrote a couple of years ago titled “Ila and the Piñon Tree.” She wanted to review it for me. So I sent it to her.
This morning, she emailed to say some of the text was missing.
She was right.
What made it even worse is that this edition also contained the Spanish translation by the editor of EstePaís magazine.
After about a 20-minute search (yeah, I left the WIP at that point), I realized the American text didn’t match the translation. At all. I’d somehow managed to publish the wrong version of the original story!
So I rushed around, got the right version done, then uploaded it to Smashwords, D2D and Amazon. Tragedy averted. I’m just glad it was only a short story.
Well, and another tragedy appeared. While I was working on that, I got an email from D2D saying I needed to review one of the anthologies I released a long while back. Seems one or more of the retailers didn’t like that I had listed myself on the cover as the editor but hadn’t listed all the authors.
Fine. So I redid the cover, then uploaded that. About a half-hour gone. So an hour total at that point.
And while I was at Smashwords to upload Ila, I found that another anthology required review. Seems one of the retailers didn’t want any hyperlinks included At All. (My other anthologies with Smashwords have hyperlinks, no problem.)
So I went through and deactivated all the hyperlinks, then resubmitted that. Another hour gone. (The upstart is that I won’t be editing anymore anthologies for other authors. WAY too many weird proprietary rules, and they’re far too arbitrarily applied.)
I was going to do a load of laundry today, but I think I’ll put that off until tomorrow and go limping back to my WIP now. Sigh. At least there I can be among friends, no wolves nipping at my heels, and enjoy myself.
Got a fairly good day, but missed my 4000 word day for the second day in a row. That’s all right though. The magic of a daily goal is that it resets every morning. (grin) And with the time lost and all the gnome encounters this morning, I don’t feel too bad.
Talk with you again soon.
Of Interest
See “An old typewriter and a big idea” at http://www.thepassivevoice.com/an-old-typewriter-and-a-big-idea/.
See “How Could 1 Body Decompose at 3 Different Rates?” at https://www.suecoletta.com/how-could-1-body-decompose-at-3-different-rates/. Just wow.
See “Morality and the Modern Writer” at https://killzoneblog.com/2019/01/morality-and-the-modern-writer.html. Yet one more reason, offered by a traditionally published author, to avoid traditional publishing.
See “Free Fiction Monday: Local Knowledge” at https://kriswrites.com/2019/01/07/free-fiction-monday-local-knowledge-2/.
Fiction Words: 3250
Nonfiction Words: 430 (Journal)
So total words for the day: 3680
Writing of The Case of the Mourning Widow (novel)
Day 1…… 2784 words. Total words to date…… 2784
Day 2…… 3250 words. Total words to date…… 6034
Total fiction words for the month……… 7662
Total fiction words for the year………… 7662
Total nonfiction words for the month… 6970
Total nonfiction words for the year…… 6970
Total words for the year (fiction and this blog)…… 14632
Calendar Year 2019 Novels to Date………………………… X
Calenday Year 2019 Novellas to Date…………………… X
Calendar Year 2019 Short Stories to Date……… X
Novels (since Oct 19, 2014)………………………………………… 37
Novellas (since Nov 1, 2015)……………………………………… 7
Short stories (since Apr 15, 2014)……………………… 193
Short story collections…………………………………………………… 31