In today’s Journal
* Quote of the Day
* Dean’s Kickstarter
* Of Interest
* The Numbers
Quote of the Day
“[T]he CEO of The American Booksellers Association described the shipment of a book to a large numbers of bookstores as a ‘serious, violent incident.’ Quite an accomplishment for a small stack of dried pulp from a dead tree.” The Passive Guy
Nothing really to talk about today. Just some good items in “Of Interest.”
If you didn’t get in on Dean’s Kickstarter yesterday, you might want to stop by today and donate $5. Though really it isn’t a donation. Really, in addition to whatever reward to sign up for, you’ll also get all the stretch rewards. At this point, those include four pop-up workshops for a total value of $600. Not a bad purchase for $5. To join in the feasting, visit https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/403649867/pulphouse-fiction-magazine-subscription-drive-2021.
With any luck, once this Kickstarter’s in the past, Dean will get back to writing and talking about writing in his blog. And with any luck, so will I.
Talk with you again soon.
Of Interest
See “An Insider’s View of Audio” at https://killzoneblog.com/2021/08/an-insiders-view-of-audio.html.
See “Politics and the English Language” at https://www.thepassivevoice.com/politics-and-the-english-language/.
See “American Booksellers Association Apologizes for Accidentally Promoting Candace Owens Book” at https://www.thepassivevoice.com/american-booksellers-association-apologizes-for-accidentally-promoting-candace-owens-book/. What a crock of particularly foul-smelling waste.
The Numbers
The Journal…………………………………… 210 words
Writing of WCGN 5: Tentative Title (novel)
Day 1…… XXXX words. Total words to date…… XXXXX
Total fiction words for August……… 6933
Total fiction words for the year………… 623282
Total nonfiction words for August… 4140
Total nonfiction words for the year…… 150570
Total words for the year (fiction and this blog)…… 773852
Calendar Year 2021 Novels to Date…………………… 13
Calendar Year 2021 Novellas to Date……………… 1
Calendar Year 2021 Short Stories to Date… 3
Novels (since Oct 19, 2014)…………………………………… 66
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 WITD both publicly and regularly, I will continue to do so, among myriad other topics.