In today’s Journal
* Quote of the Day
* Wes Crowley
* Thanks
* The Vote Wasn’t Close
* Stanbrough Writes
* The Little Writing ‘Puter
* Of Interest
Quote of the Day
“[Y]ou as a writer can prepare for success without dealing with the insecurity at all. It’s easier now than it ever was, because writers can publish their own work and keep it in print for decades.” Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Wes Crowley (giveaway)
In case you missed it in the mishmash of news yesterday or the day before, in honor of the 8th anniversary of starting my first novel (Oct 25, 2014) I’m giving that novel away.
You only have to email me at harveystanbrough@gmail.com and let me know which eformat you want: PDF, .epub, or .mobi. I’ll send it right out.
Thank You
I appreciate you stopping by, especially if you used to receive this blog in your inbox. I understand it’s a little inconvenient, and I appreciate the effort. Yesterday about noon I deleted my MailerLite account. Feels kind of freeing, really.
I DID export the subscriber list just in case I decided to try the email format again with another outfit. But I doubt that will happen. According to several comparison sources, MailerLite was hands-down the best, and they laid a massive egg as far as I was concerned.
The Vote Wasn’t Close
In case you were wondering, of 90-some email subscribers to the Journal, maybe 15 people voted at all. Two said they would rather continue receiving the Journal in their email but would put up with checking the site each morning. A third recommended I move the Journal to Substack.
Absolutely nobody recommended moving the Journal to Facebook. That surprised me, but I also saw it as a very good thing. And here we are.
Stanbrough Writes
If you didn’t see yesterday’s Journal or if you haven’t had a chance yet to drop by my new Stanbrough Writes: HS’s website for readers at https://harveystanbroughwrites.com, I hope you will do so. Read over the Welcome page and let me know what you think.
My goal, eventually, will be turning out this almost daily Journal, posting a new short story once a week over at the Stanbrough Writes, and writing articles over there once a week or so also on the characters and settings and situations that have occurred in my novels, novellas and short stories. Oh, and continuing to write fiction. (grin)
With any luck at all, I’ll spend at least 6 or so hours per day actually writing something at one keyboard or the other.
The Little Writing ‘Puter
I meant to add this to yesterday’s post, but didn’t. You’ll remember I was whining the other day because my little writing ‘puter Just Stopped Working.
Well, rather than buying another one right away, once I got to the point where I could at least see the desktop on this one again, I went to the Settings > Update & Security > Recovery and clicked Reset this PC. I figured at the worst I’d lose the computer, so really I’d be no worse off. The reset took about an hour, but when the smoke cleared I had a brand new installation of Windows.
Of course, I had to reset a lot of things and reload some of my programs, but I got finished with all that at least a few days sooner than a new computer would have arrived. And the money I would have spent on a new one is still in the bank.
Now we’ll see how well it works. I’m hoping for the best.
Talk with you again soon.
Of Interest
See “Book Cover Ideas & Design Tips for More Sales Conversions” at https://www.amarketingexpert.com/2022/10/25/book-cover-ideas-design-tips-for-more-sales-conversions/.
See “America’s quirkiest state governments” at https://www.kiteandkeymedia.com/videos/weirdest-state-governments-in-america. Good stuff for writers to know.
See “A Snopes Collection of Spooky ‘Unsolved’ Mysteries” at https://www.snopes.com/collections/solved-unsolved-mysteries/. Story ideas.
See “…woman claims her late father was a prolific serial killer” at https://edition.cnn.com/2022/10/26/us/iowa-serial-killer-claim-donald-studey/index.html. More story ideas.
See “Serial Killers Fast Facts” at https://edition.cnn.com/2013/07/09/us/serial-killers-fast-facts/index.html.
See “Some Updates” at https://deanwesleysmith.com/some-updates-4/.
See “Writing Horror vs. Writing Terror” at https://www.thepassivevoice.com/writing-horror-vs-writing-terror/.
See “Thinking Big” at https://www.thepassivevoice.com/thinking-big/.
The Numbers
The Journal…………………………………… 670 words
Writing of The Stirchians (novel, tentative title)
Day 10… 1330 words. Total words to date…… 28459
Total fiction words for October……… 36691
Total fiction words for the year………… 157073
Total nonfiction words for October… 18800
Total nonfiction words for the year…… 172020
Total words for the year (fiction and this blog)…… 329093
Calendar Year 2022 Novels to Date…………………… 2
Calendar Year 2022 Novellas to Date……………… 0
Calendar Year 2022 Short Stories to Date… 0
Novels (since Oct 19, 2014)…………………………………… 68
Novellas (since Nov 1, 2015)………………………………… 8
Short stories (since Apr 15, 2014)………………… 217
Short story collections……………………………………………… 31
Disclaimer: In this Journal, among many other things, I promote Writing Into the Dark. WITD greatly increases productivity and practice, and provides a rapid ascension along the learning curve of Craft. This is not opinion. It is all numbers and facts.
Thanks Harvey. Checking the website is not hard to do. I’ll be checking daily.
I’m glad. I was all set to forward it to you via email. 🙂