The Journal, Wednesday, November 15

Hey Folks,

I started the day (and this Journal) with a brief write-up about an interview with Andy Weir, best-selling author of The Martian and now Artemis.

Some of his responses in the interview put me in mind of the film Idiocracy. If you haven’t seen it, I strongly recommend it. More of the world that’s conveyed in it becomes real every day.

But the write-up sounded curmudgeonly even to me, so I replaced it with this. Frankly, I thought the guy sounded like a moron, and I decided I probably don’t want to risk buying his books.

But you can decide for yourself. You can read his interview at https://www.space.com/38725-artemis-andy-weir-author-interview.html.
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Well, it’s already a wonderful day. I took care of a few things in Sierra Vista, and then returned to Saint David to check my mail. There was a complete collection of back issues of the old Pulphouse Magazine (c. 1991 – 1995) waiting for me. I am in Hebben.
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I still haven’t hit on anything for a new challenge yet.

Dean’s current “little” challenge is to write a short story every day for what remained (at the time) of November. He started on November 11, so that would be 20 stories in 20 days.

I’ve decided to jump into that just for the heck of it. I’ll write a short story every day for the rest of November. Should be a piece of cake. After all, I don’t have near as much going on as Dean does. So 15 stories in 15 days. If I’m having fun at the end of that time, I’ll just keep going with it.

See you tomorrow.

Of Interest

Not a lot out there on the Web today. If you’re interested in Dean’s progress on his story-a-day goal, you might stop by and check his second close call in as many days.

Fiction Words: XXXX
Nonfiction Words: 300 (Journal)
So total words for the day: 300

Writing of ()

Day 1…… XXXX words. Total words to date…… XXXXX

Total fiction words for the month……… 2238
Total fiction words for the year………… 451680
Total nonfiction words for the month… 6420
Total nonfiction words for the year…… 174483
Total words for the year (fiction and this blog)…… 626163

The Daily Journal blog streak……………………………………… 717 days
Calendar Year 2017 Novels to Date………………………… 9
Novels (since Oct 19, 2014)………………………………………… 27
Novellas (since Nov 1, 2015)……………………………………… 4
Short stories (since Apr 15, 2014)……………………………… 182