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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…
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Short Story Organization…
I Am Slowly Winning the Battle… I think I have most of my short stories that I want to move into the future on my spreadsheet now. Maybe I will find another thirty or so, but for now I am happy. A whole bunch of stories are just dropping into deep storage. And at the moment I am not reprinting any of my early short sales that I sold to different markets because I wrote them on a typewriter and I see no reason to bother with them. (Yes, I know how to scan, but again, no point at this time.) Only exception is my story that was in Writer’s…
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Kris Challenge Seminar…
Something Different… 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 she had offered had really…
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Quick Reminder of Coming Kickstarter…
Got Busy Tonight On Building Collections… Just didn’t give myself time to write a decent blog, so here is the information again on my coming Kickstarter on the 5th. 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 it just got approved and we already have a “Project We Love” from Kickstarter. Really cool. This 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…
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Time of Great Forgetting!!!
It’s That Time Again… The time when a bunch of other things take writer’s attentions, all seemingly more important, and the writing and publishing just sort of get forgotten. This is not a problem for professional writers, but for those coming in and striving to build a publishing business, this time can just make months vanish. And sometimes even professional writers need a focus to get through. Kris and I have been talking about this for a few weeks now, and she has come up with a really fun idea I will talk a about here in a few days when all the details are worked out. I think it…
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Quick Update On My Publishing Challenge…
Still On Target… My challenge, at its core, is to clean up and get all my short fiction into print so I can get back writing without wondering “What was the point?” I have now put together 26 different 10-story collections. 260 different stories. It has been great fun and I have done covers for all of them. More than likely I have that many more to go before I get everything into print, but that I find exciting. To start getting these books out, I am doing a collections Kickstarter in May. Focus on science fiction. 5 collections are the main ones, with five more that can be gotten…
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A Writer Thing…
Watching People… Since I sometimes don’t get out of the condo for entire days, I took the opportunity to go with Kris tonight to the Strip. That’s right, the Strip on a Saturday night. Not a place I would normally ever think of going, but Kris had a concert in Caesar’s Palace and I offered to drive her and explore Caesar’s Palace, one of the only major casinos I had never been in, even back in my team card days. So since it was a really nice evening, we parked at the Wyn and walked. Lots and lots of people around 7pm. Very crowded. (In fact the rumor of how…
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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…