Hey Folks,
Okay, from the time I awoke this morning, I decided today would be a nonwriting day. My wife and I are in the midst of straightening, rearranging and cleaning our house, and it’s actually kinda fun.
Also I felt a day off might help separate my WIP and my probable next WIP from each other in my mind. As I’m writing in the former, it’s racing right along, no problem.
But bits and dregs of my probable next project keep squeezing out from between the polyps in my brain.
As I have only a few polyps left, I want to avoid stress on them. (I know they probably aren’t actually “polyps,” but they look kinda like polyps and that’s one of my current favorite words to say. It just sounds neat: polyps.)
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While I’m here, I thought I’d remind you that Kristine Kathryn Rusch offers a free short story of the week every Monday. Last week’s story was “The Voodoo Project” at https://kriswrites.com/2018/03/12/free-fiction-monday-the-voodoo-project-2/. If not, look around her site. If you’re serious about writing (and particularly about writing short fiction), there are no better works to study than those of Kris.
Okay, so I’m off to see what the day has to offer. I hope your day is as perfect as you’d like it to be.
Back soon.
Of Interest
See “Can Slick Marketing Sell Bad Books?” at https://killzoneblog.com/2018/03/can-slick-marketing-sell-bad-books.html. The answer is yes, but there are a couple of good resources in this article too.
For some truly great quotes from Raymond Chandler (talk about something that’ll put you in the mood to write), see https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/1377.Raymond_Chandler?page=1.
Fiction Words: XXXX
Nonfiction Words: 280 (Journal)
So total words for the day: 280
Writing of Stern Talbot, PI—The Early Years: The Case of the Sliced-Up Secretary
Day 1…… 3207 words. Total words to date…… 3207
Day 2…… 3079 words. Total words to date…… 6286
Day 3…… 3870 words. Total words to date…… 10156
Day 4…… 2481 words. Total words to date…… 12637
Day 5…… 3164 words. Total words to date…… 15801
Day 6…… 3140 words. Total words to date…… 18941
Day 7…… 1145 words. Total words to date…… 20086
Day 8…… 1656 words. Total words to date…… 21742
Day 9…… XXXX words. Total words to date…… XXXXX
Writing of Novel 1, New Thriller Series
Day 1…… 1339 words. Total words to date…… 1339
Total fiction words for the month……… 43544
Total fiction words for the year………… 94849
Total nonfiction words for the month… 7690
Total nonfiction words for the year…… 27020
Total words for the year (fiction and this blog)…… 129889
Calendar Year 2018 Novels to Date………………………… 2
Calenday Year 2018 Novellas to Date…………………… 0
Calendar Year 2018 Short Stories to Date……… 0
Novels (since Oct 19, 2014)………………………………………… 29
Novellas (since Nov 1, 2015)……………………………………… 4
Short stories (since Apr 15, 2014)……………………………… 182