The Journal, Thursday, 6/2

The Day

Rolled out a little after 2.

Well, first, very pleased to report all three of my blogs are now in one central location. In the upper right corner of my new website, you can now click a link to subscribe to the Story of the Week, The Daily Journal, and/or The Main Blog (Pro Writers category). When you subscribe, your email address will be added to whichever list(s).

If you’re subscribed to The Main Blog, you will receive that post in your email every ten days (1, 11, 21 of each month). If you’re subscribed to the Story of the Week, you will receive a freshly minted short story in your email every Monday. If you are subscribed to The Daily Journal, you will receive that post in your email every day just after 6 p.m.

Not a lot to the day today. Tweaked the website a bit more. Added a My Personas page and then a page for each persona. That was kind’a fun. I also put a new short story on the Harvey Stanbrough page and on the Eric Stringer page. So if you aren’t subscribe to the story per week and you’d like to read a couple of really good short stories, stop by there.

I wrote a little bit, then had to a pretty good walk, then tweaked the site a bit more. Then I wrote a bit more. That’s the whole secret to being a writer, as I think I talked about recently in a topic of the night. It isn’t just writing all the time (nobody deserves that much Heaven). It’s coming back and coming back and coming back.

Topic of the Night: Dean Wesley Smith is Insane

Of course, I mean that in only the best possible way. (grin)

Dean issued himself a new challenge. He’s going to write a new original short story every day during the month of July. Even I am not that insane. But I am thinking of starting a pool to bet on when he’ll break the streak. I might even tell him about the pool. Maybe that’ll keep him going for 31 stories in 31 days. (grin)

Also, remember that his “day” is not like most people’s day. His day begins at around 1 p.m. and goes until around 5 a.m. the next morning.

I urge you to go take a look at his blog today.

Also take a look at his topic of the night. It’s about creating and using a Title Generator. Interesting stuff, especially if you can write a story off a title. I often do that with my short fiction.

The Writing

Decent day of writing today. I feel like I’m building up slowly or something. I could have hit at least another thousand words today. The story’s really rolling. But when NYPD Blue came on, I psyched myself. I decided I’d turn on the TV and turn up the sound and just LISTEN to NYPD Blue but continue writing. Then I’d watch all five episodes on Sunday anyway.

Nope. It’s just too good a show. When I turned it on, I stopped for just a moment, was drawn in by the hook, and spent the next 45 minutes (no commercials on Audience) watching an excellent show.

So I got just a little over 2000 today. No biggie.

Today’s Writing
Fiction words: 2486

Writing of Book 8 in the Wes Crowley saga
Day 1…… 4125 words. Total words to date…… 4125
Day 2…… 2624 words. Total words to date…… 6749
Day 3…… 2766 words. Total words to date…… 9515
Day 4…… 1412 words. Total words to date…… 10927
Day 5…… 3441 words. Total words to date…… 14368
Day 6…… 1052 words. Total words to date…… 15420
Day 7…… 2486 words. Total words to date…… 17906

Total fiction words for the month…………… 3538
Total fiction words for the year……………… 408884