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The Journal: On Daily Word-Count Goals

The Journal: Reader Taste—The Final Take

The Journal: Reader Taste?

The Journal: Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays

The Journal: Reflections

The Journal: A Little More on Goals and Myths and My Goal

The Journal: Goals and Challenges

The Journal: Links to Share

The Journal: A Few Brief Notes

The Journal: More on Challenges and Writing

The Journal: Learning and Challenges

The Journal: Flip-Flop?

The Journal: Back to the Future

The Journal: Going Wide vs. Exclusivity

The Journal: WITD and Writing Again

The Journal: "Fill a Stein...." Guest Post

The Journal: Peter Brandvold

The Journal: Thanksgiving Sale

The Journal: A "Fresh New Voice" Revisited

The Journal: All Knowledge is Pertinent

The Journal: What About Writing Are You Grateful For?

The Journal: "Natural" Storytellers

The Journal: Agents Want a Fresh New Voice

The Journal: A Turning Point

The Journal: Fiction Writing and Pulp Speed

The Journal: The DeepL Translator

The Journal: On Writing Scenes Out of Sequence

The Journal: Stomping on Chandler's Good Advice

The Journal: Why Do You Write?

The Journal: All About Items of Interest

The Journal: Atticus to Rival Vellum

The Journal: Censorship in the Name of Inclusivity

The Journal: Another DWS Kickstarter

The Journal: Write. Or Don't. Whatever.

The Journal: More on IP and Going to Print (Paper)

The Journal: Two Very Important Posts

The Journal: Rewriting and Hemingway

The Journal: Nothing Really

The Journal: Personas vs. Pseudonyms

The Journal: Sort-of WITD and Pseudonyms

The Journal: A Little More on Publishing to Paper

The Journal: D2D Paper Price Increase

The Journal: 10,000 Trillion Ants

The Journal: A Little More on Process

The Journal: Writing Into the Dark: Part 2

The Journal: What Is Writing Into the Dark?

The Journal: How to Write Faster

The Journal: Learn

The Journal: Insider Info About Traditional Publishing

The Journal: Selling Books Without Promo

The Journal: Traditional Publishing Contracts: Derivative Rights

The Journal: One More Benefit of Being Prolific

The Journal: WITD and Cycling

The Journal: A New DWS Series of Posts

The Journal: Filling in a Few Blanks

The Journal: Analogies and a Clarification

The Journal: A Pair of Real Writers

The Journal: Some Fun, and Serious Stuff

The Journal: An Inane Quote

The Journal: Checking In

The Journal: Making a Story Important

The Journal: A Day Out

The Journal: Insanity

The Journal: Special Edition

The Journal: Got my new pickup

The Journal: All About SF

The Journal: A Few Tidbits

The Journal: Yesterday

The Journal: Stopping for a Visit

The Journal: Just Checking In

The Journal: A Hiatus, DWS and Koontz

The Journal: Quotes and Of Interest

The Journal: Book Launch

The Journal: The Main Impurity

The Journal: Responses and the Journal

The Journal: What's Going On

The Journal: Dolly Parton, Russell Blake and James Patterson

The Journal: Nothing Really

The Journal: An Opportunity for Writers

The Journal: Good "Of Interest"

The Journal: Good to Be Back

The Journal: Despite the Bluster

The Journal: Anthony Trollope and Challenges

The Journal: The Novel Wrapped

The Journal: The novel will wrap today

The Journal: New Releases

The Journal: Why I Post Every Day

The Journal: Desperately Avoiding the Adverb

The Journal: Just Write Something Already

The Journal: Three Kinds of Fiction Writers

The Journal: More on Ideas, and Introducing Tidbits

The Journal: Writing Routines

The Journal: From B&N and Reader Kudos

The Journal: Amberries

The Journal: Critical Mind: A Diagnosis

The Journal: Feelin' a Little Snarky

The Journal: Sigh. Mentorships

The Journal: Rain

The Journal: Yesterday, a Topic, and Today

The Journal: Well, Fooey

The Journal: Some Cover Design Fundamentals

The Journal: SpaceRons, and Author Angst

The Journal: Unknowingly Trying?

The Journal: One Writing Process

The Journal: David Farland and a Royal Model O Typewriter

The Journal: Are You Like Me?

The Journal: Short Writing Day

The Journal: Some Next-Level Stuff on Pacing

The Journal: On "Making" Good or Great Writers

The Journal: Computers and Programs and Novels, Oh My

The Journal: Don't Cut Off Your Nose...

The Journal: Another Brief Note on Focusing Down

The Journal: Whose Story Is It?

The Journal: Journaling, Focusing Down and More

The Journal: Good Days

The Journal: Cigars Are on the Way Out

The Journal: On Taking Your Time and Focusing Down

The Journal: Gems About Writing

The Journal: Whalin's 10 Publishing Myths

The Journal: Tough Love

The Journal: On the Use of Language

The Journal: Mentorships Updated

The Journal: Marketing and Promotion

The Journal: In Memory of Casey

The Journal: The Becoming A Writer Mentorships

The Journal: Weird and Weirder

The Journal: NOW the novel is wrapped

The Journal: The Novel Wrapped, But

The Journal: A New Phishing Scam

The Journal: Punctuation for Writers

The Journal: Quotes and Of Interest

The Journal: Mentorships, and Just for Fun

The Journal: You Can't Sell an Idea

The Journal: Focusing Down

The Journal: A Cat Picture

The Journal: On Censorship and Cancel Culture

The Journal: A Non-Productive Personal Day

The Journal: A Short Post Today

The Journal: There Are Five Physical Senses

The Journal: A Short Post Today

The Journal: Alison Naomi Holt and Robert J. Sadler

The Journal: A Day Off and Writing Sales Copy

The Journal: The Novel Finished

The Journal: A Story Idea

The Journal: Absorbing Story

The Journal: Four-Book Give-Away

The Journal: Great Advice from DWS

The Journal: The Saguaro Cactus

The Journal: Character Descriptions

The Journal: An Epiphany

The Journal: More Good Input

The Journal: Opportunities, and Misinformation

The Journal: Mentorships vs. Nonfiction Books

The Journal: Yesterday, and Computers

The Journal: The Novel Wrapped

The Journal: David Farland and Dan Baldwin

The Journal: Not Much Today

The Journal: The Novel and the Free Ebook

The Journal: I love a good argument

The Journal: Appreciate and Be Loyal to Your Creative Subconscious

The Journal: Sigh. Regarding "Deep" POV

The Journal: No

The Journal: Writing Your Story Description

The Journal: Readers Like to Fill-in the Blanks (Uh, No)

The Journal: Yesterday and Bundlerabbit

The Journal: If I May Share

The Journal: Again I got a question

The Journal: Analysis Paralysis

The Journal: Reader Taste vs. Writer Skill

The Journal: A New Writing Process to Try

The Journal: Rider Jones Wrapped

The Journal: Nada

The Journal: Bitter Mountain Moonlight

The Journal: On the Use of "Blue" or "Bad" Language

The Journal: How do you know which story idea to write?

The Journal: How Do You Get So Many Ideas?

The Journal: Standard Writer Think

The Journal: Audio—It's Not What's for Breakfast

The Journal: Rider Jones is back

The Journal: Rider Jones Wrapped

The Journal: IP Valuation

The Journal: The Missing Days

The Journal: Fiction Lengths and Much More

The Journal: Lansdale, Orwell, and Farland

The Journal: Working and Having Fun

The Journal: Catching Up

The Journal: The Origins of Rider Jones

The Journal: Pulp Speed Revisited

The Journal: Forgetfulness—Blessing or Curse?

The Journal: The Five Most Important Things

The Journal: A Trip, Feedburner, Refreshers and Hemingway

The Journal: "Info Dumps" vs. POV

The Journal: Poetry Techniques for the Fictionist

The Journal: Questions 2: Dialogue Tags and Interruptions

The Journal: The Question Rules

The Journal: Standard Manuscript Format, Sort Of

The Journal: Point of View

The Journal: It's Good to Be Back

The Journal: Off for a Few Days

The Journal: Willie Nelson wrote a song

The Journal: Waxing Philosophical

The Journal: On Writing "Fast"

The Journal: Six Novels in 90 Days? Almost...

The Journal: Recognizing the Critical Voice

The Journal: Conscious Mind

The Journal: On Ernest Hemingway

The Journal: Do Poets Outline?

The Journal: Nothing Much Today

The Journal: The world is chock full

The Journal: Update on Heinlein's Rules Stuff

The Journal: The Internet, blah blah blah

The Journal: Statement by the ALA

The Journal: A "New" Computer and Logging a Day

The Journal: Get a Beverage and Settle In

The Journal: I'm a Fortunate Guy

The Journal: Second Novels and Mentorships

The Journal: Started a New Novel

The Journal: On Getting Paid in Copies

The Journal: All Caught Up

The Journal: Diary Continued

The Journal: A Diary Entry

The Journal: Post 5 on Heinlein's Rules

The Journal: Post 4 on Heinlein's Rules

The Journal: Post 3 in the Heinlein's Rules Series

The Journal: Post 2 in the Heinlein's Rules Series

The Journal: Awhile Back: An Introduction

The Journal: The upcoming topics and a short tale

The Journal: Great Topics Coming

The Journal: Why I won't write...

The Journal: Mad Genius Club

The Journal: The Journey Home: Part 7 Is Finished

The Journal: I almost didn't post

The Journal: Reminiscing

The Journal: A Gentle Reminder

The Journal: Random Thoughts

The Journal: Why I Write the Journal

The Journal: I Have a Question

The Journal: A Minor Glitch

The Journal: Focusing Down, Revisited, Briefly

The Journal: Focus Down and Mentorships

The Journal: Critical Voice vs. Creative Voice

The Journal: Not a lot

The Journal: Maybe an Exciting New Source

The Journal: On Solitude, and Openings

The Journal: Kenneth Flowers, Yarmulkes and Tattoos

The Journal: WITD, the Novel and Dean

The Journal: Shared Worlds and Poetry

The Journal: Succinct Titles

The Journal: In Protest of Hatred

The Journal: Copyright: It Isn't Rocket Science

The Journal: A Primer on Learning to Write Fiction

The Journal: Garbage Runs in Cycles

The Journal: The Shared World short story

The Journal: Today, Yesterday, Sometime Later

The Journal: The Journey Home: Part 6

The Journal: An Addendum

The Journal: Writer's Block and Coming Up with Ideas

The Journal: Fact or Fiction Indeed

The Journal: Quotes, Comments and an Email

The Journal: Practice in Writing

The Journal: My Recent Novels, and Numbers

The Journal: Character with a Problem, Part 3

The Journal: Character with a Problem, Part 2

The Journal: Character with a Problem

The Journal: Information

The Journal: Trust Your Process

The Journal: A New Nonfiction Book Is Coming

The Journal: A Mind-Control Technique

The Journal: A Bestseller Goes Indie (and Why)

The Journal: Decisions, Decisions

The Journal: Story Ideas

The Journal: A Run-on Sentence? Nope.

The Journal: An Excellent Quote for Writers

The Journal: Most generations are given a fight

The Journal: What the Journal Is Not

The Journal: What We Keep

The Journal: Feedback and Thinking Out Loud

The Journal: Dialogue Tag vs. Brief Descriptive Narrative

The Journal: An Opportunity to Learn

The Journal: Gripes of the Day

The Journal: Writer Seeks Actual Publisher

The Journal: A Thought on Priorities and Writing

The Journal: Writing "Fast"

The Journal: Yes, That's What Happens

The Journal: MOM (Moaning Over Misery)

The Journal: Just Rambling

The Journal: Opening Up a World Early

The Journal: The Ongoing Saga

The Journal: Mourning Characters, and Rewriting vs. Recasting

The Journal: Happy New Year, Yesterday, Cycling and Heinlein's Rules