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New Fun Project…
DETECTIVES COLLIDE: A Make 100 Kickstarter Project For six years now, Kris and I have been doing this Collides Series of 100 of our short stories. 50 of hers, 50 of mine. On different subjects and topics each year. This time, for the sixth year’s topic, we are doing DETECTIVES COLLIDE. The detective stories move across all genres for both of us and there are a bunch of original stories in these books this time, plus stories never seen in any of the other Collides volumes. Yes, we do have that many stories. The previous five Collides Series volumes of five books each are: Colliding Worlds (6 books) Crimes Collide…
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8 JANUARY REGULAR WORKSHOPS…
That’s Right… Eight… Pulp Speed, Power Words, and Heinlein’s Rules. All this month. And remember that these are half price until the 5th. Details below. The list of regular JANUARY workshops that last for six weeks and have five assignments are… WRITING INTO THE DARK TEAMS IN FICTION WRITING WITH DEPTH KILLING THE CRITICAL VOICE ADVANCED DEPTH GETTING TO PULP SPEED POWER WORDS HEINLEIN’S RULES To search for them on WMG Teachable, just add the word “January” before each title. For Workshop Lifetime Subscribers or Everything Lifetime Subscribers, simply write me for the code to any of the classes you would like to take live in January. These workshops start…
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2026 Challenge Is Also Half Price
Everything On Teachable is Half Price… Until January 5th late. And here are a few pictures of me holding up a Beautiful Trophy you could get if you hit the challenge of 2026 words per day in 2026. These are hand-blown glass floats, made on the coast in Oregon. Everyone one is different. We will be shipping four of these to the winners of the challenge in 2024. Sure sorry for the delay. And in January I will know how many more we need to order. The 2026 word challenge is starting on the 1st. And since it is part of WMG Teachable, it is half price right now. Here…
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A Hidden Streak and A Sale
156 Week Streak Ends Tonight For 156 weeks, three straight years, I have recorded and put up videos every Monday. Usually eight videos on different topics every Monday. Now, tonight after I finish this, or tomorrow early, I will record the last weeks and I have no plan on doing another of these kinds of workshops in 2026. So the Monday streak of teaching videos will come to an end. I am sort of surprised it lasted as long as it did, to be honest. But all the learning is still recorded and there. And I would suggest that if you are interested, you take them as they were intended,…
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A Look Back At 2025 Workshops
Just For Fun… Kris and I are very aware that over the last few years, writers have put their faith in us and our workshops and teaching to spend the money for workshops and for a Lifetime Everything Subscription on either Teachable or the WMG Writer Store. Difference is that the WMG Writer Store can handle webinars and as of my last check, Teachable can not. So classes where it is important to have a webinar are put on the WMG Writer Store. Pretty much that simple. In both places, there is a lot of content, but Teachable is where there are over 400 active classes, workshops, Pop-ups, and lectures.…
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Kickstarter Friday
Not One Fiction Campaign This Week That Is Worth Studying and Backing… I do this every Friday when I have a few campaigns I think are worth putting here. Tonight there are none that I saw. Holiday and that makes sense. Horrid time to try to run a campaign. I will not say much negative about a campaign. If there is too much or it is going to fail, I won’t post it here. And for those wondering where I get off judging Kickstarter Campaigns by fiction writers, I have now done 59 of them, every one funded and made money. My first campaign was in the very early days…
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Extending the Early Bird Discount…
Through Monday the 29th… Kris and I both realized that ending the discount on Christmas was silly, and she wanted it extended so she could let her newsletter folks know. So the Early Bird discount has been extended until late Monday the 29th. And we still have seven spots open. Anyone signed up will get the basic information on Tuesday or Wednesday and the first videos will appear on Monday the 5th. Here is all the basic information. Hope you can join us. FEAR AND PRODUCTIVITY SEMINAR Preparation for the New Year January Seminar January 5th through January 30th It is about craft, publishing, mindset, work habits, belief systems, getting…
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Seven Days Left In the Year…
Time to Wrap Up, Look Back, and Then Turn Forward… You got a week. And rest is a great idea as well. The last three days here we spent really wrapping up a ton of stuff, making decisions, and setting up systems. Now we turn forward completely and finish cleaning up and turning our attention to new projects. And a ton new learning for me and Kris. Actually, a lot of it is relearning, just been a few years since we have done some things. And we are resting. So thank you all for the holiday wishes and I hope in return your holiday is a great one. And a…
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For Those Who Celebrate This Holiday…
Enjoy! We have three Christmas trees here in our condo, and a dwindling plate of holiday sugar cookies Kris made. Pizza with friends tomorrow night, Jewish deli on Thursday for lunch. But mostly we will be writing through the entire time because that’s what we do. Hope you all have fun doing what you do on this holiday.
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3 Days Left On Early Bird Discount…
FEAR AND PRODUCTIVITY SEMINAR Preparation for the New Year January Seminar January 5th through January 30th It is about craft, publishing, mindset, work habits, belief systems, getting past fear, and so much more. Anything that is slowing you down or holding you back is a fair topic for you to ask about and us to help you with. As with most seminars, this will be interactive in many ways, with questions being answered in videos each day and 4 weekly webinars. The webinars will be recorded so that everyone can go back and watch them. They will be on Wednesdays at 4 pm West Coast time. The webinars will be…