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Half Way On My Challenge…
Six Months To My 76th Birthday… And yes, I am counting because I am trying to do this totally insane challenge of publishing 75 major books in my 75th year on the planet. So at 6 months, I have learned a ton, with two major learning curves yet to fight. As I said in a previous post, I have most of my short fiction organized (after years and years of bad systems and just not doing it.) I have put together 25 collections, with TOC and covers. No repeats of any story. I have about 20 more collections to do before I finish up the stories I want to reprint.…
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Early Bird Discount Ending on Motivation Challenge
Ends Late On Sunday… Kris and I are offering the Kris Motivation Challenge Seminar, with two motivation videos every week (30 total videos) and three webinars. Jump in and make sure you stay focused, even if your family is taking a trip, you can write in a notebook or on a laptop. Or get your words for the week done ahead. The focus in the key, and in the videos Kris and I will be giving a ton of tips on how to stay in the writing, even when the garden is calling, the pool is waiting, and the hamburgers on the grill smell wonderful. You don’t have to give…
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Kickstarter Friday
Some Campaigns I Think Are Worth Backing Or Studying Or Both! I do this every Friday when I have a few campaigns I think are worth putting here. 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 60 of them, every one funded and made money. My first campaign was in the very early days of Kickstarter. But if yoy are going to study campaigns that I have done, study the last year or so. I…
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Time of Great Forgetting Bad This Year…
Focus Is Really Difficult… Understandable with the way the world situation is right now, the way prices are slowly increasing, the way that everything seems to be in flux and uncertain. Focus on writing seems to take a back seat for so many, many writers. And then you combine in the natural focus killers of spring, it becomes insanely worse. Sort of a perfect storm holding writers away from writing for months and months. In 51 years since I sold my first short story, wow do I understand all this. Some years this time of year is just normal, others it seems to be worse, and only a few years…
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Kris Motivation Challenge
Had a Few Questions… We have challenges available that anyone can sign into, and we have done some focused seminars over the last year or so. They were great fun and the challenges are open to anyone at any time, to start at any time. The Super Great Challenges run for an entire year from the moment you start. And making it work not only gets you a bunch of stuff written and published, but a subscription award to Teachable. So I got a couple questions on what people got at the end of this challenge? Answer… a lot of stuff written through the summer. But the seminar part of…
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Kickstarter Live!
MY STORIES HEADED INTO THE WORLD! FIVE SCIENCE FICTION COLLECTIONS by Dean Wesley Smith Can’t begin to tell you how happy this makes my creative voice to finally have my short stories started out into the world. Amazing, just amazing, and I want to thank you ahead of time anyone who decides to back this. Thank you. This is my 60th Kickstarter campaign and we already have a “Project We Love” from Kickstarter. Really cool. This is the start of me getting out a bunch of my short stories finally. (Story in the introduction as to what happened.) The base of this campaign is five science fiction 10-story collection. But…
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Launches Tomorrow… Kickstarter SF Collections
Starts at Noon West Coast Time! FIVE SCIENCE FICTION COLLECTIONS by Dean Wesley Smith Fifty Science Fiction Short Stories in Five Brand New Collections by New York Times Bestselling Writer Dean Wesley Smith! This is my 60th Kickstarter campaign and we already have a “Project We Love” from Kickstarter. Really cool. This is the start of me getting out a bunch of my short stories finally. The base of this campaign is five science fiction 10-story collection. But there is a featured reward that you can get five more science fiction collections. And then in this, all the stretch goals will be brand new science fiction collections. So if you…
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40 Years!
Wow! Just Wow! Forty years is one of those round numbers that makes you come up short. Forty years ago Kris I met when I picked her up to take her up to Taos for a writer’s conference. We have been together ever since. And to say we have had some adventures would be the world’s biggest understatement. Far, far too many adventures to even go into, but I will admit a lot of them are fun for the two of us to remember together. And mostly laugh or shake our heads in amazement that we made it through. And now, after forty years, we are both well, both still…
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Write and Get Motivation Help All Summer!!
This Is Going To Be Great Fun… We have challenges available that anyone can sign into, and we have done some focused seminars over the last year or so. They were great fun and the challenges are open to anyone at any time, to start at any time. And we really had no desire to do another seminar like the ones before. So other than regular workshops, a couple advanced craft workshops, and the really fun short Kickstarter workshops, we had no other plans. But Kris was looking for something to help her stay focused on her writing this summer. Really, really focused. And a couple years ago, some challenges…
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Kickstarter Friday!!
Some Campaigns I Think Are Worth Backing Or Studying Or Both! I do this every Friday when I have a few campaigns I think are worth putting here. 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 60 of them, every one funded and made money. My first campaign was in the very early days of Kickstarter. But if yoy are going to study campaigns that I have done, study the last year or so. I…