In today’s Journal
* Quote of the Day
* Here’s to Boring and Uneventful
* Peter Brandvold
* Of Interest
* The Numbers
Quote of the Day
“Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: It must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all.” William Faulkner
Here’s to Boring and Uneventful
I hope everyone had an enjoyable Thanksgiving. Ours was boring and uneventful, in a good way. Meaning there was no undue, unnecessary excitement and no drama. One more thing for which to be grateful. Unfortunately, Dean’s was something less than boring, as reported at “Well, That Was Fun”.
But as a bonus, yesterday my youngest son drove down from Flagstaff, so we’ll get to visit with him for a couple of days.
Peter Brandvold
This morning, a friend (Thanks, Patrick) brought to my attention Peter Brandvold. Mr. Brandvold is a prolific novelist who has written over 100 novels since his first was published by New York in 1996.
The first link in “Of Interest” will introduce you to him and provide some great advice about dealing with New York publishers.
Those of you who have a Facebook account (I don’t) might want to look up Peter Brandvold. Especially for an article he posted titled “Let Your Wolf Howl.” I hope to have him guest post on the Journal at some point.
Of Interest
See “Running off the leash” at https://peterbrandvold.com/2020/02/running-off-the-leash. Some stark truth from another prolific fiction writer.
See “True Crime Thursday – Thanksgiving Wine Heist” at https://killzoneblog.com/2021/11/true-crime-thursday-thanksgiving-wine-heist.html. I love posts about stupid criminals.
See “What is Buckshot?” at https://leelofland.com/what-is-buckshot/.
See “Tachyons: Facts about these faster-than-light particles” at https://www.space.com/tachyons-facts-about-particles.
See “Antifa Member Who Took Axe to Senate Office Given Probation and his Axe Back” at https://jonathanturley.org/2021/11/26/antifa-member-who-took-axe-to-senate-office-given-probation-and-his-axe-back/. You can’t make this stuff up. Of course, we don’t know all the details, but the photo of the perp that accompanies the article says a great deal.
The Numbers
The Journal…………………………………… 290 words
Writing of WCGN 5: Carmelita Ramos (novel)
Day 1…… XXXX words. Total words to date…… XXXXX
Total fiction words for November……… XXXX
Total fiction words for the year………… 623282
Total nonfiction words for November… 10480
Total nonfiction words for the year…… 188970
Total words for the year (fiction and this blog)…… 812252
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.
What a great read Peter’s article is! Thank you for sharing, Harvey.
I found a non-FaceBook link to his post ‘Let your wolf howl’ – https://peterbrandvold.blogspot.com/2015/07/on-starting-action-novel-or-drop-some.html
Cheers!
Thanks, Anitha. And I’m sure we’ll be hearing more from Peter soon.