Hey Folks,
Wow. Nothing but whole lot of nothing going on yesterday in a writerly way. Did a little work around the yard, did some reading, but very little else.
My business computer was all messed up (the last Lenovo I’ll ever buy) so I spent a few hours messing with it. Finally got it working again, or at least limping along.
I did spend a little time online finding things for “Of Interest” and they’re below. Nothing time sensitive, so I figured it would keep until today.
Hence no Journal yesterday.
I stayed up too late on Sunday night, rolled out late as a result this morning, then allowed myself to be sucked into a meaningless discussion (in dumbed-down America) concerning ignorance and all its seemingly endless ramifications. Sigh.
Still managed a walk, though we just went into the open desert east of the house and walked around the 1 mile, uneven dirt path out there. Hurt my back, so I won’t be doing that again.
When we got back I got to work, which means I started poking through the usual websites looking for items for the “Of Interest” section. Found a couple and added them.
Then I opened a game of spider solitaire and tried very hard to forget I’d wasted over an hour earlier in the day on a person who probably wouldn’t give me the time of day if her middle finger was a watch. Ahh, the wonders of Facebook.
Then I came inside to write all this gibberish. Finally to the Hovel around 10.
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I had three really good sessions today and knocked out over 3800 words. Feels good to be working my way back into a routine.
See you soon.
Of Interest
There are 16 more comments on Dean’s “Many Deaths” post at https://www.deanwesleysmith.com/the-many-deaths-of-a-fiction-writer/#comments. Many good, meaty comments there. Also, often I find new “resources” by clicking the linked name of a commenter. Few and far between, but they’re out there.
See James Scott Bell’s “Be Clear About WHO and WHERE in the Opening” at https://killzoneblog.com/2018/06/be-clear-about-who-and-where-in-the-opening.html. I would add, also be clear about the What. It doesn’t have to be “the” problem of the story/novel, but every opening should have a character with a problem (the what) in a setting.
See “Author Website Visitor #5 – Event Coordinator Evelyn” at http://www.authormedia.com/author-website-visitor-5-event-coordinator-evelyn/.
See Sue Coletta’s “Let Me Tell You a Story” at https://killzoneblog.com/2018/06/let-me-tell-you-a-story-video.html. (There’s a video but an annotated transcript below it.)
Fiction Words: 3827
Nonfiction Words: 390 (Journal)
So total words for the day: 4217
Writing of Dread (novel)
Day 1…… 3391 words. Total words to date…… 3391
Day 2…… 3827 words. Total words to date…… 7218
Total fiction words for the month……… 7218
Total fiction words for the year………… 214182
Total nonfiction words for the month… 1550
Total nonfiction words for the year…… 65070
Total words for the year (fiction and this blog)…… 278972
Calendar Year 2018 Novels to Date………………………… 5
Calenday Year 2018 Novellas to Date…………………… 1
Calendar Year 2018 Short Stories to Date……… 11
Novels (since Oct 19, 2014)………………………………………… 31
Novellas (since Nov 1, 2015)……………………………………… 5
Short stories (since Apr 15, 2014)………………………… 193