The Journal: Quotes and “Of Interest”

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In today’s Journal

* Quotes of the Day
* Nothing much
* For those who are interested
* The Numbers

Quotes of the Day

“I realized that coming up with writing topics did not require anything greater than an attunement to the everyday things around me….” Christine M. Estel

“My barn having burned down, I can now see the moon.” Mizuta Masahide

“The Delete button on PG’s keyboard will never gather dust, but the scope of its domain will remain limited to characters, words, the odd paragraph and an occasional draft version of a finished document saved in at least two other places.” The Passive Guy

“Nothing much to talk about today,” he said, much to the surprise and relief of everyone in the room.

Enjoy the quotes and the “Of Interest” section below.

For those who are interested, the novel is coming along well. Yesterday was actually a bit of a rough writing day but I employed Keep Coming Back (one of my mantras) and eventually discovered another one: Don’t Stop While the Words Are Coming.

At what I thought was the end of the day, I tallied my word count and was pleased to see I’d written over 4600 words. But as I was adding that to my Journal template over on the business computer, a character said something in my head. So I swiveled back to the writing ‘puter and wrote it down. When I looked up again, my tally had increased to just over 5000 words.

Talk with you again soon.

Of Interest

See “Simple Ways to Generate New Writing Ideas” at https://www.authorspublish.com/simple-ways-to-generate-new-writing-ideas/. I’m always amazed that not having story ideas readily available is a thing.

See “Putting Up New Workshops” at https://www.deanwesleysmith.com/putting-up-new-workshops/. Dean says hold off on signing up for any new workshops until Jan 26 when they’ll start a new half-price sale.

See “Wreckage (2020 in Review)” at https://www.thepassivevoice.com/wreckage-2020-in-review/. That’s one perspective. Life (and writing) is what you make it.

See “Murphy’s Law and Its Offspring” at https://www.thepassivevoice.com/murphys-law-and-its-offspring/.

The Numbers

The Journal…………………………………… 340 words

Writing of The Journey Home: Part 3 (novel)

Day 1…… 1568 words. Total words to date…… 1568
Day 2…… 2963 words. Total words to date…… 4531
Day 3…… 4652 words. Total words to date…… 9183
Day 4…… 5506 words. Total words to date…… 14689
Day 5…… 4107 words. Total words to date…… 18796
Day 6…… 5001 words. Total words to date…… 23797

Total fiction words for December……… 73220
Total fiction words for the year………… 525751
Total nonfiction words for December… 13850
Total nonfiction words for the year…… 199060
Total words for the year (fiction and this blog)…… 724811

Calendar Year 2020 Novels to Date…………………… 8
Calendar Year 2020 Novellas to Date……………… X
Calendar Year 2020 Short Stories to Date… 13
Novels (since Oct 19, 2014)…………………………………… 53
Novellas (since Nov 1, 2015)………………………………… 8
Short stories (since Apr 15, 2014)………………… 214
Short story collections……………………………………………… 31

2 thoughts on “The Journal: Quotes and “Of Interest””

  1. Keep coming ba k is key. And dont stop while words are coming is truth!
    I also (thankfully) don’t understand what it feels like to be at a loss for ideas. I literally have them banging on the inside of my skull, trying to get my attention. Maybe I should start writing a few if them.
    And before I finished that sentence the Heinlein rule of “finish what you write’ stood up and coughed.
    Okay

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