The Journal, Wednesday, September 25

In today’s Journal

* I haven’t featured
* Rambling
* The numbers

I haven’t featured Lee Lofland for awhile in this Journal despite regularly receiving his posts in my inbox.

Lee is a retired detective with about a million years’ experience. I feel fortunate to have his inadvertent input for my crime and detective novels. His most recent offering, “Shooting Fish in a Barrel: Repeat Offenders,” is worth a look. See https://www.leelofland.com/shooting-fish-in-a-barrel-repeat-offenders/.
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Goodreads ticks me off. There, I said it. I’ve had an account with them for several years, but when I tried to log in today they said my login info was wrong and prompted me to log in with Amazon or Facebook. And frankly, it isn’t worth the effort. Assbags.
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Today I’ll meet with a mentoring student for a couple of hours. The face to face is nice because with the immediacy we discuss little nuances that might not come up in email discussions.

I’m still taking on mentoring students, but not for long. If you want to come aboard, email me (harveystanbrough@gmail.com). If you’re regional, we can meet from time to time to enhance email communications. If not, there’s always the phone.
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Be sure to see the comments at https://www.deanwesleysmith.com/playing-with-numbers-and-math/#comments.

Then read “Licenses Are Not The Ends of Roads” at https://www.deanwesleysmith.com/licenses-are-not-the-ends-of-roads/. The article is much better written than the title. (grin)
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The novel continues to move along well, a little here, a little there. No new fiction numbers to report today because I’m posting this early.

Tomorrow I’ll be interviewed (and recorded) for The Prolific Writer podcast. I look forward to it. The podcast itself will go “live” in a few weeks. In case you want to hear my cranky old voice, I’ll let you know here when and where to listen when Ryan tells me.

Talk with you again later.

The Numbers

Total fiction words for the month……… 5578
Total fiction words for the year………… 380231
Total nonfiction words for the month… 12680
Total nonfiction words for the year…… 259390
Total words for the year (fiction and this blog)…… 639621

Calendar Year 2019 Novels to Date…………………… 7
Calendar Year 2019 Novellas to Date……………… 1
Calendar Year 2019 Short Stories to Date… 2
Novels (since Oct 19, 2014)…………………………………… 43
Novellas (since Nov 1, 2015)………………………………… 8
Short stories (since Apr 15, 2014)………………… 195
Short story collections……………………………………………… 31