• Challenge

    Fun Day

    Kris’s Birthday… After a fun dinner at Kris’s favorite restaurant last night, we watched the last half of the Mission Impossible first movie in this series (Came out a few years back.). Then this morning we headed out to watch the second half movie in the theater. First time we had been to a theater in a very long time, what with everything last year. Movie was good, as expected, sf premise. I had forgotten how much fun going to a movie was in a real theater. Especially a big action movie like Mission Impossible. Then we headed for a nice dinner, then got home just in time to head…

  • Challenge,  Kickstarter Campaign,  On Writing,  publishing,  workshops

    New Kickstarter Launches At Noon!!

    MARY JO ASSASSIN books… I love writing Mary Jo stories. It is amazing how complex killing someone can get. At 1,000 years old and a member of the Assassin’s Guild, she is well trained and practiced. Oh, if you are looking for magic or swords or things like that, afraid none of that in these books. She is sexy and deadly and doesn’t age, but she does love her partner, another assassin, and a good Screwdriver after a job well done. (Vodka and Orange Juice.) She might be called a completely modern assassin. Leaves no trace and has a very powerful code of ethics. And she is one of those…

  • Challenge,  Kickstarter Campaign,  On Writing,  publishing,  workshops

    How to Achieve Your Dreams…

    New Workshop Up… Got a hunch that some writers are going to return from the land of The Time of Great Forgetting and wished they had started this. It starts on June 10th and goes for 9 weeks, so right into the first week or so of August, after the Time has cleared for most. Get it on Teachable.  Here is the blurb about it… HOW TO ACHIEVE YOUR DREAMS A step-by-step guide to Writing More, Getting More Readers, and Making a Living with Your Writing. 9 week class given by New York Times bestselling author Dean Wesley Smith and planned by both Dean and New York Times bestselling author…

  • Challenge,  On Writing

    Got Busy…

    Almost Forgot To Do This Blog… Spent a lot of time today working on the coming Mary Jo Assassin Kickstarter (Kickstarter Link). Then a bunch of time recording some workshops. Then email and a bunch of time preparing to really fire back up the stories tomorrow. You know, June 1st great restart. Almost have my sleep scheduled back in place to help the writing. At this point in the story-per-day challenge, I had a horrid three months, but I am far from giving up. That’s why the refocus tomorrow. Seven months can make up for a lot of the bad three months. Now I know for those of you lost…