The Journal, Thursday, May 3

Hey Folks,

Well, I saw that MailChimp added the May 1st post to the May 2nd post. Weird.

In his post today, Dean’s hawking a new writing-book bundle Kris put together. Even if you’re otherwise not interested, this one includes The Heinlein’s Rules lecture. That alone is worth the money for the bundle if you haven’t heard that lecture. Just sayin’. See https://www.deanwesleysmith.com/writing-books-bundle-and-lecture/.

Yesterday I reported writing over 6000 words of fiction in what was my personal biggest day ever.

This morning I went back and double checked. It was difficult for me to believe that total. Honestly, I felt fresh enough that with another short break, I probably could have written another thousand words.

But nope. The total was correct.

This morning I didn’t get out to the Hovel until around 8:30. Took a small break about an hour later, then a longer one around 10:30 to check the PO and put some gas in my truck.

Then back to the Hovel. I forgot Mona would be home early today, so when she got here I wrapped it up in the middle of another story. I also wrote what will be the first half of the Epilogue to the overall novel. So a pretty good day.

See you soon. ​

Of Interest

See “On the Precipice…” at https://killzoneblog.com/2018/05/on-the-precipice-what-new-things-are-you-doing-with-your-writing.html. I mention this mostly for the information on Radish. But other subtopics might interest you as well.

See The Passive Guy’s take (Cultural Change And The Traditional Writer) on Kris Rusch’s post at http://www.thepassivevoice.com/?p=88200.

Then, if you want, see “Business Musings: Cultural Changes” at https://kriswrites.com/2018/05/02/business-musings-cultural-change-and-the-traditional-writer/.

Fiction Words: 3857
Nonfiction Words: 270 (Journal)
So total words for the day: 4127

Writing of The Storytellers
Brought forward………………………………………………………………… 1304

Day 2…… 2966 words. Total words to date…… 4270
Day 3…… 4475 words. Total words to date…… 8745
Day 4…… 1718 words. Total words to date…… 10463
Day 5…… 3825 words. Total words to date…… 14228
Day 6…… 3328 words. Total words to date…… 17616
Day 7…… 3899 words. Total words to date…… 21515
Day 8…… 1227 words. Total words to date…… 22742
Day 9…… 1135 words. Total words to date…… 23877
Day 10… 1108 words. Total words to date…… 24985
Day 11… 6073 words. Total words to date…… 31058
Day 12… 3857 words. Total words to date…… 34915

Total fiction words for the month……… 9930
Total fiction words for the year………… 171216
Total nonfiction words for the month… 910
Total nonfiction words for the year…… 50380
Total words for the year (fiction and this blog)…… 221326

Calendar Year 2018 Novels to Date………………………… 3
Calenday Year 2018 Novellas to Date…………………… 1
Calendar Year 2018 Short Stories to Date……… 0
Novels (since Oct 19, 2014)………………………………………… 30
Novellas (since Nov 1, 2015)……………………………………… 5
Short stories (since Apr 15, 2014)……………………………… 182