In today’s Journal
* Quote of the Day
* Not a lot
* Thank you
* What is a Y gate?
* Of Interest
* The Numbers
Quote of the Day
“Simply put, adding information, such as a message or data, to a particle in one location will make the data appear at the other location: the essence of teleportation.” Dan Hurley quoting on the forthcoming quantum internet
Not a lot in today’s Journal. I’m posting today mostly for what’s in “Of Interest.”
I wrote a little on the short story yesterday, but (again) I forgot to get caught up in Dean’s Covers 101 class. I’ll attend to that today, then write more on the story.
This thing might turn out to be something longer than a short story. Maybe a novella. Maybe a series of novellas. (Like I need another series.) But at the moment I just don’t know, and it doesn’t really matter. I’m having fun writing it, and that’s what matters.
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A friend wrote to say she loves the American west but never got a chance to live here. She also wanted to see a photo of a Y gate.
In this photo of the one I put up a few days ago, the bottom of the Y extends to the left (east, three strands of barbed wire) from the t-post on the left.
The top of the Y splits at that t-post. One section of it (in regular field fencing) runs to the post on the far right to form the north opening (gate) and the other section runs to the white t-post, second from the far right, to form the south opening.
The tall t-post (second from the left) is a little over a foot inside the top of the Y. More barbed wire fencing extends to the west from that post all the way past my house.
The idea is that a large mammal (cow or horse) will poke his nose into the opening between the white t-post and the taller one, then realize s/he can’t bend well enough to make the turn and will back out. The US Forest Service often uses these.
Beyond the t-post on the left, you can see part of the wide path I cut to the well, which is just around the turn in the path to the left and out of the picture.
Oh, and the black wire you see at the top of the tall t-post leads from my modem in the house and into the Hovel so I have internet out there. (grin)
Talk with you again soon.
Of Interest (Story Ideas Abound)
See “Men They Couldn’t Hang” at https://www.suecoletta.com/men-they-couldnt-hang/.
See “The Quantum Internet…” at https://www.discovermagazine.com/technology/the-quantum-internet-will-blow-your-mind-heres-what-it-will-look-like. From the article: “Simply put, adding information, such as a message or data, to a particle in one location will make the data appear at the other location: the essence of teleportation.”
See “The Virtual You” at https://killzoneblog.com/2020/10/the-virtual-you.html.
See “Why Do Canadians Say ‘Eh’?” at https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/why-do-canadians-say-eh. A little linguistic fun.
See “Your Brain Chooses What to Let You See” at https://www.quantamagazine.org/your-brain-chooses-what-to-let-you-see-20190930/.
See “What is the mysterious ‘global Hum’…” at https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2019/mar/13/what-is-the-mysterious-gl-hum-and-is-it-simply-noise-pollution.
The Numbers
The Journal…………………………………… 650 words
Writing of “Turnaround” (short story, probably)
Day 1…… 1092 words. Total words to date…… 1092
Day 2…… 1287 words. Total words to date…… 2379
Day 3…… XXXX words. Total words to date…… XXXX
Writing of Blackwell Ops 8 (novel)
Day 1…… 1653 words. Total words to date…… 1653
Day 2…… 1043 words. Total words to date…… 2696
Day 3…… 1711 words. Total words to date…… 4407
Day 4…… 1221 words. Total words to date…… 5628
Day 5…… XXXX words. Total words to date…… XXXX
Writing of Body on the Beach (novel, working title)
Day 1…… 1135 words. Total words to date…… 1135
Day 1…… 1409 words. Total words to date…… 2544
Total fiction words for the month……… 1287
Total fiction words for the year………… 336481
Total nonfiction words for the month… 2790
Total nonfiction words for the year…… 153180
Total words for the year (fiction and this blog)…… 489661
Calendar Year 2020 Novels to Date…………………… 5
Calendar Year 2020 Novellas to Date……………… X
Calendar Year 2020 Short Stories to Date… 12
Novels (since Oct 19, 2014)…………………………………… 50
Novellas (since Nov 1, 2015)………………………………… 8
Short stories (since Apr 15, 2014)………………… 213
Short story collections……………………………………………… 31