Hey Folks,
This just in, and I’m putting it right up front:
For anyone out there who is still looking for an agent or who HAS an agent for that matter, please do yourself a favor and read Kris Rusch’s Business Musings post “Writers, Scam Artiss, Agents and More” at http://kriswrites.com/2017/04/26/business-musings-writers-scam-artists-agents-and-more-sigh/.
Well, yesterday, even with my brain pretty much toast at around 2 p.m., I created a cover for “Suction Cups,” then a promo doc.
Then I published both “Suction Cups” and the story from a couple days ago, “How Hard the Ground” to D2D and Amazon, then uploaded both to BundleRabbit.
This morning I uploaded both to the website in the Free Short Story tab. One is up now, and the other is scheduled for a couple of weeks from now.
I also sent both of them to my donors. Thanks, all of you.
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During the process of preparing the stories to be posted on my site, I realized the second story (Suction Cups) feels like it’s part of a novel.
Maybe so, maybe no. I’m taking a couple nonwriting days today and tomorrow. I’ll fire up again on Monday, 1 May.
My goal this year is to write at least one novel per month as well as 15 novels on the year. Shouldn’t be all that difficult if I can stop frittering away days.
But the calendar thing gets me. After I finished the novella, there wasn’t time (the way I write) to begin and finish a second novel or novella this month.
That’s the main reason I wrote short stories over the past few days instead of starting a new novel.
But that’s just dumb. So beginning on May 1, no more wasting days to wait for the beginning of a new month.
I’ve written 4 novels in 4 months so far, plus a novella. So to hit my annual goal of 15, that means I have to write 11 novels in the remaining 8 months. I can do that.
Oh, I’m also tracking pretty much everything now down at the bottom of this.
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Hey, if any of you have a topic you’d like me to discuss, or one that you’d like me to discuss in greater detail, please email me. Many of my topics come from questions I’m asked in emails.
Today, and Writing
Rolled out at 3. I was very briefly busy with my routine stuff, then uploaded both short stories to my site, etc.
Back tomorrow.
Of Interest
Some interesting comments on Dean’s “A Novel Challenge” at http://www.deanwesleysmith.com/a-novel-challenge/#comments.
Then see his “Story Twenty-Eight” at http://www.deanwesleysmith.com/story-twenty-eight/.
Fiction Words: XXXX
Nonfiction Words: 380 (Journal)
So total words for the day: 380
Writing of May Novel (novel)
Day 1…… XXXX words. Total words to date…… XXXX
Total fiction words for the month……… 35487
Total fiction words for the year………… 244043
Total nonfiction words for the month… 16910
Total nonfiction words for the year…… 74250
Total words for the year (fiction and this blog)…… 318293
The Daily Journal blog streak………………………………… 521 days
Calendar Year 2017 Novel Goal (15 novels)… 4 novels
Novels (since Oct 19, 2014)……………………………………… 24
Novellas (since Nov 1, 2015)…………………………………… 3
Short stories (since Apr 15, 2014)…………………… 166