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2024 Holiday Spectacular Kickstarter…
Scheduled to Start At Noon!! Thirty-five original stories by professional writers delivered one per day into your inbox from American Thanksgiving through January 1st. This is the sixth year and going all out on the writer stretch goals. All four quarters of the Bite-Sized Copyright plus two Focus Bundles, so $3,000 in workshops for writers. This campaign will last for two weeks and has already gotten before we launched a Kickstarter Project We Love! And three great ways to write for next year’s Holiday Spectacular. Plus some fantastic Holiday Merch. You can give the calendars as gifts as well so your friends and family can enjoy a story per day.…
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Last Day of Workshop Sale…
Until April… So it is fine to stock up on a few workshops and take them when you have time. Or get a challenge and start in January. Let me Repeat a Few Things… Kris told me a few nights ago that she had sent out the first assignments to her Kris Reading Program where she gives assignments to a few writers and they have two weeks to write her a story. Then she gives them feedback and a new assignment. She really limited the participants to start, but she said that she thinks she is really going to enjoy doing it and wouldn’t mind one or two more writers…
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I Will Be So Happy….
To Not Have To Talk Here About Workshop Sales… At least until next April. (If then.) I got so many other things I would rather talk about here. Like the stories I am reading and other learning stuff. Fun stuff. To be honest, even though the sales are a great deal for writers to keep learning, I am bored pushing them. Maybe that will change by April. So this 60% off workshop sale, the last sale until at least April, is done late Monday. Information in the last few posts. Now tonight I am going back to putting finishing touches on the fantastic WMG Holiday Spectacular 2024 Kickstarter that is…
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QUESTION… What’s In It??
Got That Question Three Times… About what was in the Everything Lifetime Subscription. Seems my answer of “Everything on WMG Teachable” was not enough of an answer. So for kicks and giggles here on this Friday night, I thought I would answer the question a little better so you can see why I say it is the best deal to really learn writing and publishing. To be honest, I have never done this so I am kind of curious how much is on sale at the moment. (grin) So here I go… No doubt I will miss something. All the misc classes… Things like Licensing, 50 Years…, and so on.…
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Steven Mohan, Jr.
Great Writer and Person… I met Steven Mohan Jr. over twenty years ago when he came to one of our master classes. He was a former officer in the Navy and was hungry to learn writing. And learn he did, selling stories regularly from that point forward. He ended up writing a lot of military science fiction under his name and another, including novels for Battle Tech. And he just kept on learning, working to be better. He attended a lot of our in-person classes over the years. Steve was also one of the nicest and funniest humans I have ever had the pleasure to meet. Brilliant and clear of…
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Misc. Stuff and Sale Extension…
A Number of Things… Kris told me tonight that she had sent out the first assignments to her Kris Reading Program where she gives assignments to a few writers and they have two weeks to write her a story. Then she gives them feedback and a new assignment. She really limited the participants to start, but tonight she said that she thinks she is really going to enjoy doing it and wouldn’t mind one or two more writers to jump in. Full information is https://deanwesleysmith.com/kris-reding-program/ But max two. So read the post on what it is about and follow the instructions there. Pretty amazing she is doing this. I doubt…
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A Branding Summary,,,
Figuring Out What I Missed… When you write a series of nonfiction posts on something, with no outline or path you are intending to go, unlike fiction, it can get really jumbled. And then do the posts over almost ten months of crazy busy stuff, it gets stupidly disorganized. Yeah, I did that. So now my attempt to start figuring out what I have missed in these branding posts turns out to be tougher than I thought it might be. I started doing branding posts back in February with a post titled: Fiction Branding Part 1… https://deanwesleysmith.com/fiction-branding-part-1/ About different types of branding using the Bryant Street books as an example.…
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Voted Today… Also Sale Continues…
I Dropped Off My Ballot Today… I was born in the Truman administration , vaguely remember the Nixon/Kennedy election, remember clearly Kennedy getting shot, remember being angry Nixon was elected in 1968 and I gave up being active when he was reelected in 1972. Kris got me paying attention again to politics in the late 1980s and ever since then I have been active. But in all those years, I never remember being as scared for the results of an election as I am now. I always had policy disagreements with one party or the other, always worried about what would happen. Sure. We all did. Nature of a democracy…
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Last Day of Workshop Sale!!!
The Office Move Still Going On… Ain’t moving fun? Taking loner than expected as always and desks don’t even arrive until later this week. The sale was in honor of the move. But even though not done, we still plan on ending the full WMG Teachable workshop sale late tonight (Monday night late)… Don’t miss this one. No sale coming in the future that we have scheduled or even talked about. Every Workshop, Every Class, Every Subscription 50% Off!!! As I said, this has been in honor of the WMG Publishing Offices moving to Las Vegas. So we put everything on WMG Teachable on sale at half off. Just hit…
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2 Days Left In Sale and Running Pictures…
First About the Sale… So we plan on ending the full WMG Teachable workshop sale late Monday… Don’t miss this one. No sale coming in the future that we have scheduled or even talked about. Every Workshop, Every Class, Every Subscription 50% Off!!! This has been in honor of the WMG Publishing Offices moving to Las Vegas. So we put everything on WMG Teachable on sale at half off. Just hit purchase what you want, and then put in the code on the next page and hit apply and you will have it for half price. Code is… OfficeMove This includes all lifetime subscriptions as well, and the Everything Lifetime…