Hey Folks, Amazon’s despicability factor just grew again in my mind. For the past several days, I’ve received an email each day urging me to be sure my upload of The Professional Fiction Writer: A Year in the Life is the final version I want to sell. (It’s up for preorder and ships on January 15.) The thing is, if you remember, way back when I first tried to upload it, they wouldn’t allow it. They … Read more
Hey Folks, Well, I have to go get labs done this morning (fasting) so that will interrupt the day some. That plus I got up late this morning after staying up too late last night. But it’s already been a good morning. Probably I should mention some of the entries in this Journal will get a little light as I spend more time on the novel. I’ll still try to give you something worth reading, and … Read more
Hey Folks, It’s going to be a great day. I scanned through an earlier novel and highlighted sections of it for information. I consider this research. I gleaned characters, situations and places that will appear in the next novel. Unless something untoward happens today, I should have a good writing day. Of Interest Yet more good comments at Dean’s 1/1/17 Daily… Some Learning… (http://www.deanwesleysmith.com/1117-daily-some-learning/#comments) Also check his 1/3/17 Daily (http://www.deanwesleysmith.com/1317-daily/) Today, and Writing Rolled out at … Read more
Hey Folks, Long post today. First, happy new year. Again, I hope 2017 is the best year yet for all of us. And that is within our power. All we have to do is choose to make it the best year ever. Things will happen that are outside our control. But how we react is ALWAYS a matter of choice. From the For What It’s Worth department… There’s another 80/20 truism floating around among humanity. Most … Read more
Hey Folks, THIS JUST IN FROM KRISTINE KATHRYN RUSCH: If you have ANY books with All Romance Ebooks/OmniLit, read Kris’ post here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/business-musings-7624150. This is an advance look at her post from next week. Two other links that might help are these: All Romance Ebooks Closing All Romance Ebooks Suddenly Closing I hope none of you have books with ARE/OmniLit. So now back to the normal post: Happy new year’s eve. And I hope 2017 is … Read more
Hey Folks, Rolled out right at 3:30, wide awake, then honestly did nothing for almost the first two hours. Babies to take care of and all that, so I got nothing accomplished. I took care of some small things around the house, then turned my attention to the edit from around 8 until noon. In that time I got 36 pages done, so I increased the bank by one. Now to fiction for the balance of … Read more
Hey Folks, Rolled out at 3 this morning and started reading over an excerpt a friend sent me from his next novel. It’s gonna be a good story. The little girl is in the house this morning, though tapping on a glass pane near the bottom of the door now and again. She wants out, but there are two owls perched out there in the darkness. Uhh, no. When the moon set and the owls quit, … Read more
Hey Folks, Well, there is a very good chance this will be a nonwriting day. I’m working through a memoir for a long-time friend, and it’s fascinating. I hope to have it published for him as an ebook by the end of the day, so I’m going to stick with it for awhile and see what happens. Started the entry above (and working through the eformat and cover for my friend) around 4. By around 11:30, … Read more
Hey Folks, Wow. This is gonna be almost just a placeholder post. I rolled out around 4, did not much until around 7, helped clean house for awhile (sort of). Then I wrote a bit, then went to Sierra Vista for some stuff, then back here to write a bit more. A really flat day. Just not a lot going on. I’ll try to get back on task in the next day or two with a … Read more
Hey Folks, Well, after the usual morning routine I remembered to update my Short Fiction page at HarveyStanbrough.com. So a bit of admin stuff to begin the day. There are now 160 short story covers on the page that appears when you click the Short Fiction tab on the site. Another sort-of milestone. A short post today. After yesterday, I thought you might want a break. (grin) Of Interest Some good comments on Dean’s Belief and … Read more