Hey Folks,
A LOT in “Of Interest” today. I even added a couple of them to my website Writer Resources page.
Absolutely nothing to report from yesterday. But this morning, after spending a couple of days getting over this cold or whatever it is, I feel better enough that I can at least think.
I mentioned a few days ago that I received a copyedit. It’s a re-edit, so it shouldn’t be all that difficult. Since it’s also prepaid, I’m going to set everything else aside and work on that until it’s finished. Some reshuffled priorities, in light of my current situation.
The copyedit shouldn’t take more than a few to several days, depending on how long I can go at it each day.
As I’m doing that, I’ll also read and judge the entries I received a few days ago for a short-short fiction contest. It probably will be my last one. In retrospect, I wish I hadn’t agreed so quickly. Probably my quick response was a holdover from the days when I was a regular conference speaker. (grin)
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The third item in “Of Interest” today is kind of interesting. But maybe more in the US than anywhere else, it’s incumbent on responsible citizens that we decide which “laws” we choose to ignore because they’re simply ludicrous. Blind obedience has never been my strong suit.
For example, I occasionally collect shed feathers from my yard, but I don’t use them to adorn my hats. Neither am I going to toss them out just because some bureacrat somewhere is laboring under an overwhelming sense of self-righteousness.
Talk with you again soon.
Of Interest
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See “How Beautiful Should Your Sentences Be?” at https://killzoneblog.com/2018/09/how-beautiful-should-your-sentences-be.html. IMHO, much ado about nothing. Just write the story.
See “Could a Feather Send You to Jail?” at https://killzoneblog.com/2018/09/could-a-feather-send-you-to-jail.html.
See Lee Lofland’s “An A-W Guide to Realism: A Pocket Dictionary” at https://www.leelofland.com/an-a-w-guide-to-realism-a-pocket-dictionary/.
See Lee Lofland’s “So, You’ve Committed a Federal Offense: How Much Time Will You Serve?” at https://www.leelofland.com/so-youve-committed-a-federal-offense-how-much-time-will-you-serve/.
See “What Do Tom Turkey and Writing Have in Common?” at https://killzoneblog.com/2017/11/what-do-tom-turkey-and-writing-have-in.html. Too much structure for me. I offer this mostly for the mention of the three dimensions of character. If the rest works for you, so much the better.
See “Big Publishing and Its Small-Town Syndrome” at http://www.thepassivevoice.com/big-publishing-and-its-small-town-syndrome/ specifically for The Passive Guy’s comments.
See “Free Fiction Monday: Strangers at the Room of Lost Souls” at https://kriswrites.com/2018/09/24/free-fiction-monday-strangers-at-the-room-of-lost-souls/.
Fiction Words: XXXX
Nonfiction Words: 420 (Journal)
So total words for the day: 420
Writing of Nick 3 (novel, tentative title)
Day 1…… 3422 words. Total words to date…… 3422
Day 2…… 2664 words. Total words to date…… 6086
Day 3…… 3190 words. Total words to date…… 9276
Day 4…… 1090 words. Total words to date…… 10366
Day 5…… 1466 words. Total words to date…… 11832
Day 6…… 2859 words. Total words to date…… 14691
Day 7…… 3362 words. Total words to date…… 18053
Day 8…… 2465 words. Total words to date…… 20518
Day 9…… 1177 words. Total words to date…… 21695
Day 10… XXXX words. Total words to date…… XXXXX
Total fiction words for the month……… 21995
Total fiction words for the year………… 336726
Total nonfiction words for the month… 13220
Total nonfiction words for the year…… 131036
Total words for the year (fiction and this blog)…… 467512
Calendar Year 2018 Novels to Date………………………… 7
Calenday Year 2018 Novellas to Date…………………… 2
Calendar Year 2018 Short Stories to Date……… 11
Novels (since Oct 19, 2014)………………………………………… 33
Novellas (since Nov 1, 2015)……………………………………… 6
Short stories (since Apr 15, 2014)………………………… 193
Days of writing fiction every day………………………… 0