The Journal, Wednesday, October 10

Hey Folks,

Back to writing today. When the sun is up and I know the babies are safe inside or in the yard, I’ll head out to the Hovel.

I still run out of steam after only a few hours, so I want to spend those hours putting words on the page. I can rest after that. (grin)

In the meantime, there are a lot of great posts in “Of Interest” today.
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To the Hovel a little after 8. It was enjoyable to see my old friends again.

I spent some time going over the reverse outline and updating it, then put my fingers on the keyboard and listened to the characters, adding around 800 words.

A break up at the house, then back to the Hovel for another session. Around a thousand words later, I was getting tired, so I decided to call it a day.

It feels great to be writing again.

Talk with you again soon.

Of Interest

Via The Passive Voice, see “110 Type Ornaments to Use in Your Book (Plus a Free Download)” at https://www.thebookdesigner.com/2018/10/110-type-ornaments-to-use-in-your-book-plus-a-free-download/.

And again via The Passive Voice, see “How to Have an Opinion: The Criticism of Martin Seymour-Smith” at http://www.thepassivevoice.com/how-to-have-an-opinion-the-criticism-of-martin-seymour-smith/. Click through if you want, but be sure to read TPG’s take. (grin)

And yet again via The Passive Voice, see “How (Not) To Start a Publishing Company, a Case Study” at https://publishingperspectives.com/2018/10/richard-charkin-how-not-to-start-a-publishing-company-mensch/.

See “Stop and Frisk – A Legal Practice, or Not?” at https://www.leelofland.com/stop-and-frisk-a-legal-practice-or-not/.

See “Hangings and Strangulations: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of it All” at https://www.leelofland.com/hangings-and-strangulations-the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly-of-it-all/.

Some good comments on “B&N In Trouble” at https://www.deanwesleysmith.com/bn-in-trouble/#comments.

See “eBook: The definitive digital marketing guide to getting results” at https://www.talkwalker.com/marketing-essentials/the-definitive-digital-marketing-guide-to-getting-results. You might have to subscribe, but you can unsubscribe later.

Fiction Words: 1736
Nonfiction Words: 300 (Journal)
So total words for the day: 2036

Writing of Nick 3 (novel, tentative title)
Brought forward from September………… 21695

Day 10… 1736 words. Total words to date…… 23431

Total fiction words for the month……… 1736
Total fiction words for the year………… 338462
Total nonfiction words for the month… 3460
Total nonfiction words for the year…… 136556
Total words for the year (fiction and this blog)…… 474768

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 every day………………………… 1