In today’s Journal
* Quote of the Day
* Today
* Of Interest
* The Numbers
Quote of the Day
“Rejections are positive. … They are the best indicator in building a publishing career that you are doing a lot of things right. … My favorite rejection of all time was from Asimov’s Magazine back in 1982 or so. ‘Dear Dean, Sorry, we do not want to pioneer new roads into tastelessness. Signed George (Scithers).’ I sold that story to Damon Knight for his Clarion Awards anthology the very next month in early 1983.” Dean Wesley Smith
One of my cousins and his wife showed up yesterday to visit. I’ll write today (this morning, before everyone gets up, then probably spend much of today and tomorrow visiting.
So no topic today or tomorrow. But I wanted to push this out because of the quote above and “Of Interest” below.
Talk with you again soon.
Of Interest
See “Rejections” at https://www.deanwesleysmith.com/rejections/.
Also see “Listen To Rejection Slips” at https://prowriterswriting.com/listen-to-rejection-slips/.
See “Writing Boards and Other Silliness” at https://prowriterswriting.com/writing-boards-and-other-silliness/.
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The Numbers
Fiction words today…………………… 1490
Nonfiction words today…………… 210 (Journal)
Writing of Jonah Peach (tentative title)
Brought forward…… 4416 words
Day 1…… 1047 words. Total words to date…… 5463
Day 2…… 2254 words. Total words to date…… 7717
Day 3…… 1196 words. Total words to date…… 8913
Day 4…… 2972 words. Total words to date…… 11885
Day 5…… 1592 words. Total words to date…… 13477
Day 6…… 2705 words. Total words to date…… 16182
Day 7…… 1905 words. Total words to date…… 18087
Day 8…… 3818 words. Total words to date…… 21905
Day 9…… 2253 words. Total words to date…… 24159
Day 10… 1490 words. Total words to date…… 25649
Total fiction words for the month……… 23084
Total fiction words for the year………… 420649
Total nonfiction words for the month… 10500
Total nonfiction words for the year…… 313760
Total words for the year (fiction and this blog)…… 734409
Calendar Year 2019 Novels to Date…………………… 10
Calendar Year 2019 Novellas to Date……………… 1
Calendar Year 2019 Short Stories to Date… 4
Novels (since Oct 19, 2014)…………………………………… 44
Novellas (since Nov 1, 2015)………………………………… 8
Short stories (since Apr 15, 2014)………………… 197
Short story collections……………………………………………… 31