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DOWN IN THE DETAILS Science Fiction
Eight Classes Are There and Anthology Open!! Yes, finally, all eight Down in the Details science fiction classes are there and available. And yes, the anthology for them is now open. WMG Teachable Lifetime Everything Subscribers you have the code to the bundle of all eight in the first email I sent you. And yes, I hope to finish the fantasy classes and the mystery classes over the next month or so and get those open and out to backers on some Kickstarters a while ago. Each class is $150 and the bundle is $900. But remember right now there is a half-price sale. See the information below the cover…
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Kickstarter Friday
Some Fiction Campaigns That Are Worth Studying and Backing… I do this every Friday when I have a few campaigns I think are worth putting here. Tonight three amazing campaigns. 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 59 of them, every one funded and made money. My first campaign was in the very early days of Kickstarter. But if yoyu are going to study campaigns that I have done, study the last year or…
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Long Day, But Good One…
Not Enough Sleep… So calling it a night early tonight. Tomorrow is Kickstarter Friday, and so far I have only had two sent to me. August 1st 2012 I challenged myself to blog every night without missing, thinking I might make it a few months. 4,844 days later, I do this short post to keep the streak going. Damn streaks are powerful. Night
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Collection 9-Week Classes
You Write and Build and Publish a Collection… All in 9 weeks. Opened up three for November/December. The three topics are: Spies Collection Time Travel Collection Relationships Collection Everything Lifetime Subscription folks, they are in the collections bundles. And I will be reading the stories and giving responses to the assignments for nine weeks. Here are the other workshops that are starting up right now, information on the sale, plus mentorships one more time. All of These Have Assignments Each Week… This month we have six regular workshops and two advanced craft workshops starting. (Remember, half price sale going on right now… See Below) ADVANCED CRAFT… 9 Weeks Long… 8…
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Do a Kickstarter At Any Point…
How Many Books Do I Need?… … Before I can think about doing a Kickstarter? I have gotten that question a bunch lately. For a while, I thought you needed a maybe ten or so books, but then a friend reminded me of a writer I saw do a Kickstarter with their first collection. First book ever, actually. And another writer wrote me and said they had done a Kickstarter with their very first book, a stand-alone novella. Both did great, built some readers, did more campaigns as they finished new books, and kept building readers and fans so that by the time they both reached that magical discoverability level…
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November Workshops Firing Up
All of These Have Assignments Each Week… This month we have six regular workshops and two advanced craft workshops starting. (Remember, half price sale going on right now… See Below) ADVANCED CRAFT… 9 Weeks Long… 8 Weekly Assignments… — Advanced Emotion — Unputdownable REGULAR WORKSHOPS… 6 Weeks Long… 5 Weekly Assignments… — Writing into the Dark — Teams in Fiction — Writing with Depth — Killing the Critical Voice — Applied Deptj — Advanced Depth Lifetime subscriptions to Everything or Workshops, write me if you want the code for one or more of these classes. Half Price And Better… So right now, every class and workshop and lecture and pop-up…
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Fall Great Deals On Learning…
Half Price And Better… So right now, every class and workshop and lecture and pop-up on WMG Teachable is half price. To get the class or workshop you want, just hit purchase on anything you want and then put in the code: FallHalfPrice You can get the class for 50% off. Two new Advanced Craft classes for November December are starting in November, along with the regular workshops that I will have up shortly. Plus as normal other fun stuff. Questions on anything, feel free to write me. LIFETIME EVERYTHING!! You get everything on WMG Teachable, about 600 classes and workshops plus anything new coming, in the Lifetime Everyting Subscription…
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Quitting is Forever…
Writing and Publishing Can Be Frustrating… But quitting is forever. I honestly have no idea looking back how I made it 51 years in this business. I went over (in a full 9-week class on WMG Teachable) about what I learned from my mentors in 50 years and another class I covered the mistakes I made in 50 years. And I have failed at things in publishing more times than I want to count. I’ve had horrid days and great days. When I am writing, I love it and the feeling of writing. When I am not writing, I wonder why I am not writing. Looking back on that first…
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Kickstarter Friday
Some Fiction Campaigns That Are Worth Studying and Backing… I do this every Friday, yes even tonight, Halloween, when I have a few campaigns I think are worth putting here. Three really great ones tonight. 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 56 of them, every one funded and made money. My first campaign was in the very early days of Kickstarter. But if yoyu are going to study campaigns that I have done,…
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Caution on Emails With Praise…
They Hit You With Praise and Then Ask for Money… For some reason, lately, this ploy has been happening. This is my third in three weeks. These folks never research who they are sending to, but do at least pretend to have read the book they are trying to get money to promote. The most recent for me was tonight… Here is the letter I got on a book that has been in print for 12 years and just reprinted this last spring with new covers. Ready for this??? Dean, My name is (Deleted) . I came across The Slots of Saturn, and it struck me as more than a…