The Journal, Sunday, 6/18

Hey Folks,

Okay, first, Happy Father’s Day to all the dads out there. I hope you have a great day. I’m sending this out early, and then I plan to have a good day myself.

Topic: Website Stuff

This morning I worked to revise the postings on my new Writing in Public blog at hstanbrough.com.

I deleted the old email plugin and added a new one. Then I scheduled Jobs Like That (the novella) to repost in several parts.

It should go out every two hours from 9 a.m. this morning through 11 p.m. tonight. Tomorrow it will resume at 7 a.m. again, and the final post will go out at 5 p.m. tomorrow.

The “posts” page on the site is The Stories.

Pretty much any plugin will send an email when a new post happens. (JetPack comes to mind.)

But this one is supposed to send an email each time a new post happens per category.

Subscribers can subscribe to one or more categories.

So two or five or twenty writers can post scenes from their own short stories in their own category. Subscribers will receive emails only for the categories to which they’re subscribed.
But all from the same site. Amazing.

If the plugin works (fingers crossed), I’ll report that here in case any of you ever need to try something like this.

And when I’ve ironed out the bugs, I hope some of you will join me.

Today, and Writing

Rolled out really late this morning. I’ll correct that very soon. Nonwriting day today. I’ll be watching posts from Writing in Public. With any luck, there will also be a baseball game on somewhere.

If I get to do any fiction writing, I’ll report that in tomorrow’s Journal.

See you then.

Of Interest

Nothing that I saw.

Fiction Words: XXXX
Nonfiction Words: 290 (Journal)
So total words for the day: 290

Writing of

Day 1…… XXXX words. Total words to date…… XXXXX

Total fiction words for the month……… 45050
Total fiction words for the year………… 337957
Total nonfiction words for the month… 11550
Total nonfiction words for the year…… 1001530
Total words for the year (fiction and this blog)…… 439487

The Daily Journal blog streak……………………………………… 570 days
Calendar Year 2017 Novel Goal (15 novels or novellas)………………… 7 novels or novellas
Novels (since Oct 19, 2014)………………………………………… 25
Novellas (since Nov 1, 2015)……………………………………… 4
Short stories (since Apr 15, 2014)……………………………… 176