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Killing Critical Voice Workshop
Now Available!!! After that incredible response yesterday, and a ton of letters from people, all 100% wanting the new Killing Critical Voice workshop, Kris and I spent some time on it and it is now available. Thank you all for the feedback!! Like Writing with Depth workshop, and the Publishing 101 workshop, Killing Critical Voice workshop will be available every month. First one starts on June 3rd, next week. As we got this together, I was very surprised we hadn’t offered this one before. Sort of a well-duh kind of thing. And I warned in the introduction video, this might hurt a little for some people as I hit at…
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Controlling Critical Voice
After Yesterday’s Post… I got a couple of questions about how I control my critical voice when I do so much teaching, which is automatically generated from critical voice. A couple things first. If I ever stopped writing for anything past a short life roll, I would stop teaching at that same moment. Sadly, a couple of my mentors became nothing but teachers and never really wrote again. I lost respect for them, to be honest. Second, I do the teaching to keep learning. When a workshop becomes boring to me, and I can’t learn from it, it goes to classic status or vanishes. Why Kris and I are always…
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Critical Voice Kills Take Two
I Wrote This As a Comment Response Yesterday… So thought it would be good to clean up my comment, expand a little and put here so more people see it. It is on the topic of critical voice shutting off your enjoyment of other author’s work. It is a matter of taste. Read the last post before reading this. When a book kicks you from the story, it is your taste, not the author’s fault. Always the case. What that author did is simply not to your taste, even if a craft thing. Why does that happen with craft? Because we writers have one way of writing something. When you…
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Critical Voice Kills Everything
Including Your Own Enjoyment of Reading (and Watching Movies)… For some reason, early on, writers think they must start being critical about all sorts of things. Books they don’t like because they are not to their taste, certain types of movies, the wrong use of one thing or another in a story by another author. This is the critical voice, the very thing that works to stop you from writing. And also makes you believe that everything you do must be perfect, therefore you must outline and rewrite and not put something out anywhere until it has been polished to a shine. The job of the critical voice is to…
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Beating Critical Voice For Fiction Writers
More Than Likely That is Not the Title… But you get the idea. I’m going to start a series of posts here that will turn into a short book at some point about the fight we all wage against Critical Voice (with echoes and dread horror/slasher/music.) And I hope to give a bunch of advice on how to beat back critical voice as well and get the fun back into your writing. So here with go with a short introduction first. Then I’ll go from there over the next weeks. I have sixty-seven books to put out this year. This will be one of them. But I want to write…
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Creative Voice Having Fun
Watching Two-Year-Old-Kids Kris and I always talk about the creative voice being a very, very smart two-year-old kid that knows a ton more about writing than your front critical voice will ever learn. Problem is the front voice doesn’t allow the creative voice to play, set it loose. Lots of reasons for that. So tonight, while I was over at Resorts World Casino, walking, I got to witness twice the creative voice at play in real-world dramatic fashion. (And yes, my 5-mile-per-day streak is still going and at 8 days now. Some running. But tonight, because of the heat, I just went to the mega resort of Resorts World and…
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Dangers of Not Trusting The Creative Voice
Things Stop When You Lose Faith In The Creative Voice… I watch this loss all the time and hear about it from hundreds of writers over every year. Not trusting your creative voice is deadly. This came up a couple days ago when I talked about writing clean first draft work by cycling. And how that keeps the creative voice in control and eliminates the need for a critical-voice second or third draft. Got some great excuses. Fun to read. I just sort of felt sad, actually, because that’s like knowing when a person will die. I can see, over forty years, exactly how long it will take some of…
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New Workshops and Regular Workshops
HOW TO ACHIEVE YOUR DREAMS… That’s the name of the new class we are offering starting June 10th. How to Write More, Get More Readers, and Make a Living with Your Fiction. Cost is $500 and it is 9 weeks long with eight assignments. Again starts on the 10th. Everything Subscribers got a letter from me about it tonight with the code to get in. Wow am I excited about this one. We have been thinking about doing this for some time now and to help people stay focused through the time of great forgetting, we figured this would be a good one to offer. You can find this on…
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Only Lost Two Stories…
Getting Everything Organized… Only cost me two stories. Going to make everything a ton easier and should be no issue catching up those two stories in the next week or so. Wow, did I find some stuff. With the novel starts so far in this new challenge (eight so far), I found another six or seven in the piles of manuscripts. So going to have a lot of novels lined up for next year. And I found stories that had been included in novels, but not put in Smith’s Monthly and so on. But interestingly enough, I was in better shape with those old stories than I thought. Only about…
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April Regular Workshops Starting This Week!!
Added Two From Classics This Month… Heinlein’s Rules and Power Words. Here is the full list… Starting April 1st… Heinlein’s Rules (one month only) Writing Into the Dark Teams in Fiction Depth in Writing Killing the Critical Voice Advanced Depth Writing with Power Words (one month only) All workshops are on WMG Teachable. All are six weeks long with five assignments. Those with Workshop Subscription or Everything Subscription, write me for the codes if you want to do the assignments. And please tell me which subscription you have. Thanks! And the Lifetime Everything Subscription is still on sale for half price. If interested, write me directly. That is the only…