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Word Count Dropped Under Pulp Speed One…
Four Difficult Months in a Row… I know that happens, but now we shall see what I can do for the last six months of the year. But going to take a climb to get back over Pulp Two (1.2 million consumable words in a year.) I keep my running monthly word count on the right of this blog. Math is my friend. I need about 720,000 words in six months. Or about 120,000 words a month. About 4,000 words a day roughly, so about 3.5 to 4 hours a day. Yup, I can do that. Hope everyone is doing well on their yearly challenges or their reset challenges. And…
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1 Day Left At Reduced Rate
Writing Career Camp… One day left at the reduced rate. And still spots open so no problem there. And yes, you can be on vacation. No assignments to do, everything recorded so you can be on vacation for part of it without missing a thing. And most importantly, since a lot of this will be advanced, you can come back and watch the recordings in the future at any point. So here is the full first post once again. A lot of great questions answered four or five posts back. And remember, the reduced price is only good until July 1st. Just 1 day left… And spots still available. —–…
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ADVANCED MAGIC BAKERY… Chapter Ten
STARTING OFF WITH LINKS… I am getting a hunch that many people have started this series in the middle and have not read all the chapters and such. And are reading like every third chapter. Now I am pretty good at helping readers understand things, but only reading every three chapters is beyond my skill to help you. So for quick reference, here are links to the other chapters before jumping into Chapter Ten… Introduction: Chapter One: A Magic Pie Chapter Two: Market or No Market Chapter Three: Moral Rights Chapter Four: Starting a Business Chapter Five: What You Sell Chapter Six: Who Are Your Customers? Chapter Seven: The Magic…
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Calling It A Short Night…
Friday Night Before a Major Holiday… Not many people around and I need to spend some time on my writing, so going to call this a night here. And by typing this in, I am just about one month short of 14 straight years of blogging every night without a miss. I had been blogging regularly before August 1st, 2011, but not daily. That was the day for some reason I thought it would be fun to do this every day. So on August 1st, 2025 it will be 14 straight years of not missing one single day. 5,110 days in a row. Yup, no power in streaks at all.…
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3 Days Left At Reduced Price!!
Writing Career Camp… And yes, you can be on vacation. Getting that questions a lot, especially since it is summer. No assignments to do, everything recorded so you can be on vacation for part of it without missing a thing. And most importantly, since a lot of this will be advanced, you can come back and watch the recordings in the future at any point. So here is the full first post once again. A lot of great questions answered four or five posts back. And remember, the reduced price is only good until July 1st. Just 3 days… And yes, still spots available. —– WRITING CAREER CAMP… Online July…
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THE UNUSUAL HEROES STORYBUNDLE…
THE UNUSUAL HEROES BUNDLE The Unusual Heroes Bundle – Curated and Introduction by Kristine Kathryn Rusch (This is her introduction…) The best heroes are unexpected. In life and art, it’s often the unassuming quiet person in the corner—not the square-jawed alpha male—who usually comes to the rescue. If you look, you’ll find a lot of unexpected heroes in the world around you. But fiction takes unexpected from that unassuming mousey person in the corner to an actual mouse. Who goes on adventures of his own. Or an actual square-jawed hero who got demoted and spends his life saving kittens. Or a menopausal demon hunter with one more fight left in her.…
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Broadway Play Tonight
I Hate Romeo and Juliet… Hate it with a passion brought on by too many years of having to deal with it and the pure stupidity of the plot. So when the show & JULIET came up on our Broadway season tickets, I was not excited, to say the least. But Kris said a number of times this was one she had been looking forward to, so I trusted her. She was the one who tricked me into going to see COME FROM AWAY and that is my third all-time musical and not a chance would I have seen it if I had known what it was about. My first…
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Still Spots Open In Writers Career Camp…
Reposting This… Not sure how many people saw this originally and we still have some spots open. Just follow the instructions under the details to join in. No assignments to do, everything recorded so you can be on vacation for part of it without missing a thing. And most importantly, since a lot of this will be advanced, you can come back and watch the recordings in the future at any point. So here is the full first post again. A lot of great questions answered four or five posts back. —– WRITING CAREER CAMP… Online July 15th through August 12th Since we did the last master class back six…
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Advanced Magic Bakery… Chapter Nine
Chapter Nine… Easy Promotion That Makes Money So you have over 20 pies in your magic bakery and also some short story pies. (If you have not read the previous eight chapters plus the introduction, don’t blame me if you are confused and lost.) Most importantly, you have stopped all your anti-promotion of your bakery. (I bet any amount of pie crust you have not.) So going to spend this chapter on easy, money-making promotion that costs very little to nothing. In a future chapter I will bring up ads and such, but for now if you think you have to spend much money at all on promotion at the…
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Advanced Magic Bakery… Chapter Eight
Chapter Eight… The Basics of Anti-Promotion Promotion for writers and indie publishers can go in so many ways in this modern world, but going to start here with the basics of anti-promotion, or how to at least give your book and your store a fighting chance. So let me give you some guidelines. You might not like these, but alas, they have facts and studies behind them. The magic number of major books you need in your magic bakery is around 20, where discoverability starts to kick in. (Lots and lots of advertising studies back this up.) Novels, stand-alone novellas, collections, and omnibus. Discoverability is the number of ways a…