Hey Folks,
Watched an excellent baseball game last night and stayed up late (for me) to do so. I seldom watch baseball on TV through the season, but I almost always watch the division and league series and then the world series.
I’m of the generation that remembers games being played only in the daytime, teachers allowing us to listen to the radio broadcast during class, etc. (grin)
I’m old enough to remember men asking other men (as a test of their manhood) whether they knew who won the previous world series. I’m glad the custom didn’t persist; my memory isn’t all that. The question was allegedly even used during World War II to determine whether a new guy in the unit was possibly a spy.
Baseball is part of American Culture, which has been of great interest to me of late. Probably because so many proponents of open borders proclaim so loudly that Americans as a whole have no unique culture.
Of course, that’s silly. Our culture, like that of every other nation on Earth, is a great blending of cultures from around the world. And nowhere is that blending more apparent or more openly on display than in baseball. Long live the game.
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I actually got out to the Hovel early this morning, a little after 6, a little before sunrise. That’s the joy of the Hovel. When the outside temp hovers around 40°, it’s a toasty 65° inside the Hovel. (grin)
This weekend, I’m going to enlist my wife to help me rearrange my Hovel office, though. I not only write “into” the dark, but “in” the dark, and currently there’s a window directly above my writing desk. The light blinds me and after a short time my eyes get fuzzy.
In a darker setting, I can lower the display intensity from 100% to around 50%. My eyes do better and I can spend longer with my fictional friends.
I wrote all of the above, then started on the WIP again at 6:30.
About 900 words later, I headed up to the house for breakfast and a shower.
Back to the Hovel at 8:30. Another 900 words, then to the house for a break.
While I was there, I remembered I received a request yesterday for a free critique of the first 500 words. I meant to do it earlier this morning. Oops. (grin) So I did that, then went back to the Hovel and the WIP at 10:30.
Only a half-day today, but I’m wearing thin anyway.
Talk with you again soon.
Of Interest
See “Business Musings: Barnes & Noble” at https://kriswrites.com/2018/10/17/business-musings-barnes-noble/.
See “Real Things and the Proof of Truth: Look Up, Look Down, Look All Around” at https://www.leelofland.com/real-things-and-the-proof-of-truth-look-up-look-down-look-all-around/.
See “Because of Last Night’s Comments” at https://www.deanwesleysmith.com/because-of-last-nights-comments/.
Then see those comments at https://www.deanwesleysmith.com/the-threat-of-perfect/#comments.
Fiction Words: 2677
Nonfiction Words: 480 (Journal)
So total words for the day: 3157
Writing of Nick 3 (novel, tentative title)
Brought forward from September………… 21695
Day 10… 1736 words. Total words to date…… 23431
Day 11… 1468 words. Total words to date…… 24899
Day 12… 2796 words. Total words to date…… 27695
Day 13… 1719 words. Total words to date…… 29414
Day 14… 2677 words. Total words to date…… 32091
Total fiction words for the month……… 10396
Total fiction words for the year………… 347122
Total nonfiction words for the month… 8630
Total nonfiction words for the year…… 141726
Total words for the year (fiction and this blog)…… 488598
Calendar Year 2018 Novels to Date………………………… 7
Calenday Year 2018 Novellas to Date…………………… 2
Calendar Year 2018 Short Stories to Date……… 11
Novels (since Oct 19, 2014)………………………………………… 33
Novellas (since Nov 1, 2015)……………………………………… 6
Short stories (since Apr 15, 2014)………………………… 193
Days of writing fiction……………………………………… 4