The Journal, Thursday, 5/25

Hey Folks,

Not a lot to report today. A lot of little nonwriting problems swimming around in my world right now. Most of them aren’t mine, but they belong to family members so I’m not getting as much done as I’d like.

I’m almost looking forward to June 1, just because my focus will be one day at a time, one story at a time, even one scene at a time.

Not that I’ll necessarily nail it, but I think I’ll have a good chance because of that different focus.

I’ve found too that I’m going to almost have to reopen my office in the Hovel. There are times when it’s just too hot to write outside.

Today, and Writing

Rolled out at 4 after kind of a rough night. Today will be another day of writing as I’m able, as I have time. A keep-coming-back day. We’ll see how that turns out.

As I expected, I wrote off and on all day intermixed with a ton of other things.

See you tomorrow.

Of Interest

“Damn the Facts…” on The Digital Reader at https://the-digital-reader.com/2017/04/27/damn-facts-ebook-sales-narrative-must-maintained-costs/.

Fiction Words: 2988
Nonfiction Words: 190 (Journal)
So total words for the day: 3178

Writing of A Fresh Kill (tentative title, novel)

Day 1…… 2751 words. Total words to date…… 2751
Day 2…… 2986 words. Total words to date…… 5737
Day 3…… 2961 words. Total words to date…… 8698
Day 4…… 2612 words. Total words to date…… 11310
Day 5…… 2205 words. Total words to date…… 13515
Day 6…… 3739 words. Total words to date…… 17254
Day 7…… 2988 words. Total words to date…… 20242

Total fiction words for the month……… 35656
Total fiction words for the year………… 283250
Total nonfiction words for the month… 12130
Total nonfiction words for the year…… 86820

Total words for the year (fiction and this blog)…… 370070

The Daily Journal blog streak……………………………………… 547 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)……………………………… 167