In today’s Journal
* Quote of the Day
* I’m posting today mostly
* That there was a glitch
* The Numbers
Quote of the Day
“PG suggests that a more widely recognized term for deplatforming is political censorship. What punched PG’s deplatforming button was not the criticism of Mr. Peterson’s ideas and writings, but rather the verbal lobbying directed to [Penguin Random House] to pressure the company to cease publication of Mr. Jordan’s writings.” The Passive Guy
I’m posting today mostly to get “Of Interest” out to you, and mostly the first item in that section.
I hope you will read the article, and especially The Passive Guy’s addendum to the article.
It struck me that with the omission of one word (“who”) the first sentence in the original post reads like the first line of a Stephen King novel. And it would make an excellent epigraph for any 1984- or Fahrenheit 451-style dystopian novel:
“Jordan Peterson, the Canadian psychology professor and lobster-loving life coach … came to public attention after refusing to use the preferred pronouns of transgender people.” (Citation: The preceding quote is from an article written by Nathan Robinson, a person or per-it [my sister-in-law’s non gender term for ‘human biped’] at The Manchester Guardian. I have no way of knowing whether Nathan Robinson would prefer a particular pronoun him-, her-, them-, xe-, ze-, sie-, co-, ey- or it-self but I meant no offense with my omission of the same.)
This is not a political blog, so to avoid harming the sensibilities of any who believe they have the right to control how others think or what they believe or what particular words they use, I’ll stop now.
That there was a glitch in the novel occurred to me on Saturday night as I watched an episode of a science fantasy TV show. So on Sunday I searched for a particular word, repaired the glitch throughout the manuscript, and then did some other cycling. As of 10 a.m. on Sunday, I’d added only 1000 words to the novel. Given that, it was a relatively good writing day.
I’m always anxious to get back to the blank space and keep writing as the story unfolds. Still, the process-per-novel has to move at its own pace, so I’m doing my best to be patient. (grin)
Talk with you again soon.
Of Interest
See “Publishers are not obliged…” at https://www.thepassivevoice.com/publishers-are-not-obliged-to-give-bigots-like-jordan-peterson-a-platform/. See The Passive Guy’s take. This is a very important post.
See “Mr. Know-It-All” at https://fourknightspress.com/f/mr-know-it-all.
The Numbers
The Journal…………………………………… 410 words
Writing of The Journey Home: Part 2 (novel)
Day 1…… 4955 words. Total words to date…… 4955
Day 2…… 5068 words. Total words to date…… 10023
Day 3…… 6513 words. Total words to date…… 16536
Day 4…… 7467 words. Total words to date…… 24003
Sigh. Closed without saving after Day 4…… 19000
Day 5…… 0792 words. Total words to date…… 19792 (cycling)
Day 6…… 6788 words. Total words to date…… 26580
Day 7…… 3242 words. Total words to date…… 29822
Day 8…… 3342 words. Total words to date…… 33164
Total fiction words for December……… 28144
Total fiction words for the year………… 480675
Total nonfiction words for December… 4770
Total nonfiction words for the year…… 189980
Total words for the year (fiction and this blog)…… 670655
Calendar Year 2020 Novels to Date…………………… 7
Calendar Year 2020 Novellas to Date……………… X
Calendar Year 2020 Short Stories to Date… 13
Novels (since Oct 19, 2014)…………………………………… 52
Novellas (since Nov 1, 2015)………………………………… 8
Short stories (since Apr 15, 2014)………………… 214
Short story collections……………………………………………… 31