How many words did you write today?

Only 1589 words today. I was on track for more, but I got derailed by a broken furnace and having to drive 130 kilometres and back to procure a specific spare part or wait two days longer to have it repaired.

Hurray for more worldbuilding.

The furnace is working again and the house is warming up. Luckily, it failed when it wasn't too cold. And I wrote 1477 words, too.

Being happy and productive is life!

I rejiggered my psi list a bit. It
Now has 15 levels. So mini production.

1556 words today. Pretty good, considering I was tired and didn't feel well today.

Thanks, K'Sennia Visitor. I do feel a little better today and I wrote 1721 words.

Good work, Cora Faithful!!!!

We have missionaries staying here for the week from Germany. He's American military who married a German national, he took over a church there, and then ended up starting one of his own. I haven't talked to them cos I don't talk to people. I don't remember the city he said they were in. But it's a very international one.

That sounds fun! Camille Leguire wrote a story called, "Waiter, there's a clue in my soup" that was fun. But it wasn't about a murder that happened inside a restaurant. Although there are the culinary detective mysteries.

Yeah, I miss Camille. I always enjoyed her mystery posts. I imagine that a culinary assassin would be the natural enemy of the culinary detective. Fun series though. Every ace detective needs their equal rival. I used to watch Law & Order: Criminal Intent and I could not stand Detective Goren until Nicole Wallace showed up, and suddenly I was fascinated by both of them.

I used to be extremely into all of the detective shows in my late teens/early twenties, then I discovered sci-fi, and I started having trouble caring about anything that didn't involve aliens. Although, I've always carried an interest in crime stories. My brain has difficulty writing them.

I have a sort of detective/thriller idea where a woman is given a list and told she has to murder the 7 people on it or else the world will end.

Odd isn't it, since the English genre largely started with short fiction? Down to the demise of the magazines in which they were presumably originally published? I know that The Strand magazine published many of the famous ones (Father Brown, Sherlock Holmes, Poirot etc). Maybe it evolved differently in Germany.

I guess the closest thing we have here is the super short 100 word mysteries that pop up in this women's magazine, and the short stories in readers digest. You can still get nonfiction articles published in magazines, but I don't think very many even do short stories.

Hurrah on the new words!

General interest mags often had a bit of fiction, at least until recently (I haven't kept up), women's mags definitely and, at one time, the men's mags (Playboy et al) were the peak target for literary shorts. The major problem with all of them is the massive decline in sales.

I'm afraid it's made me think a bit about whether there is an opportunity in the market. Magazines are quite comforting, readers know what to expect even if the content is continuously changing it always feels the same. Would have to be an e-magazine (else costs are too high and inflexible). Monthly would work best. Would have to be cheaply run, relying on paying nothing to authors (though that could change if it ever became profitable). Would have to be free to readers too. Biggest expense would be editing, management, production and marketing. No way out of those. Advertising unlikely to be worthwhile until 1 year +. I doubt if it would break even until 5 years +, so quite a lot of money would need to be invested. No guarantee that there really is a market. Digital magazines aren't very popular.

Couldn't stop myself having a quick look at competition. The few I looked at didn't impress me (but that's hardly surprising if there isn't really a profitable market). I'm sure I will look further at some point over the next few months. Even though I don't want to publish a magazine and I certainly don't want to spend time organising or editing a magazine of any description (I do have previous experience). Even though I don't want to set up a new business, I just find it fun to work up a business plan. Although I don't really believe it will be viable, I'll do a bit more due diligence before I give up.

I have written words here, but mostly I've been reading star wars forums, watching yt vids on the heroes and heroines journey, and thinking about TUOK. I have waaaaaaaaaaaay too much info which wraps around my computer like a jungle trap, and so I get overwhelmed and confused. Plus hexabies.

But I keep trying every day, and today was another day where I tried.

Thanks!

Go you, Miss Culinary Assassin. Collections are fun!!!

Good words, Cora!!!

I just typed 948 words about TUOK. On shopping day I have lots of time for story musings and so now I have even more info to have to sort through. Yaays. But I think I like it. Even if it complicates things, that really isn't possible.