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Fun Stuff Added for the Workshop Sale!!
Started Putting Up the Classic Kickstarter Classes.. There will be 39 loaded over the next few weeks. See list below. And after those first 39, another 23 to load over the next six months to a year, and after that about 16 new per year. Wow… So I added a Lifetime Classic Kickstarter you can get. (And at half price during the sale.) And I added a Pick Choice of 10 Classic Kickstarter workshops for less than the price of 9 of them. (Another great deal at half price in the sale.) And then for fun, since there are over 80 Pop-Up classes, I added a Pick Choice of 10…
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Wild Friday!
Continues Tomorrow Morning… I am heading to bed very early because I have to be up to get a delivery of furniture for the new WMG office tomorrow at 7:30. (Yes, I stupidly agreed to that time.) The WMG main office is on the move from Oregon, even though we will still have an office there and will remain an Oregon Corporation. I spent some time on the Writer Direct webinar since Steph literally was on the road. I thought it was fun. I spent a bunch of time today putting up shelves and unpacking boxes of Kris and my old books, author copies. I also unpacked more boxes of…
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Dedicated Fiction-Writing Computer…
A Critical Part of Any Fiction-Writer’s Life… Many of you have heard me at one time or one place or another talk about the critical nature of having a dedicated fiction-writing computer. There are a ton of varied reasons for this. But I have been sort of shocked this week at learning how few writers have them and then wonder why their production is not what they want it to be. It is 2024 as I write this. Our computers are full of about a zillion distractions, from emails to YouTube to Facebook and on and on and on. A dedicated fiction writing computer has one thing on it… A…
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WMG Moving Sale
Every Workshop, Every Class, Every Subscription 50% Off!!! This is in honor of the WMG Publishing Offices moving to Las Vegas. That’s riight, it is happening later this week and next week. Our new office is so cool. We will do pictures when it is all set up! Been amazing fun to start putting it together. But in honor of that, we are putting everything on Teachable on sale at half off. Just hit purchase what you want, and then put in the code on the next page and hit apply and you will have it for half price. Code is… OfficeMove This includes all lifetime subscriptions as well, and…
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Drop the Trop
Got Behind Because They Imploded the Tropicana Tonight… To make way for the new A’s baseball stadium. They called the event “Drop the Trop.” And I have to say it was way cool to watch on television. They had a drone show and a ton of fireworks and then the drones formed a giant plunger with a countdown clock and when it hit zero white light went from the drones to the two remaining Tropicana towers and they came down. We could not hear it downtown (I listened), but got a hunch that dust cloud is going to make things pretty rough for the south end of the Strip for…
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Teachable Full Sale!!!
Every Workshop, Every Class, Every Subscription 50% Off!!! This is in honor of the WMG Publishing Offices moving to Las Vegas. That’s riight, it is happening later this week and next week. Our new office is so cool. We will do pictures when it is all set up! But in honor of that, we are putting everything on Teachable on sale at half off. Just hit purchase what you want, and then put in the code on the next page and hit apply and you will have it for half price. Code is… OfficeMove This includes all lifetime subscriptions as well, and the Everything Lifetime Subscription. (If you have a…
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Holiday Spectacular Kickstarter…
Launches on October 22nd… For those who don’t know, the WMG Holiday Spectacular is a calendar of original holiday stories edited by Kristine Kathryn Rusch. An original story is sent to you every day from American Thanksgiving through January 1st. The stories are basically in three anthologies that are sent out in October the following year. So an Advent Calendar of original holiday stories without any of the religious stuff. One original story per day. And every year we do a Kickstarter to fund it with cool holiday merch and also three special workshops where you can write stories for Kris for the three anthologies in the 2025 calendar. So…
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What Is Prolific?
Got That Question a Number of Times… Mostly because of my Pulp Speed post and then the post about systems slowing a writer down. My answer the question “What is prolific?” is always “It depends.” Pulp Speed of any level if you are turning the words into books and stories and getting them out on the market would be prolific. Especially if done every year. If your goal is to just write a few books before you move on, 50,000 words a year would be fast enough for you, but no one would ever call you prolific. Writers who tend to be called prolific after a few years are writers…
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Ideas Come and Go…
Found An Old Idea Tonight While Cleaning… It was on a yellow sticky note. I loved this idea way back. I called it “The Final Buffet.” I even blogged about it at one point. I was going to go sit in a buffet, have lunch, and write a story there that had something to do with that buffet. Do some introductions with each story about the buffet as well. What a fun idea. Over a period of six months I planned to write 15 original short stories and get them all in a book. Then the pandemic hit and buffets became a thing of the past here in Vegas. After…
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Writing Process…
Heinlein’s Rules and Pulp Speed… Had a great (but sad) back-and-forth discussion today with a writer who read my blog last night and said Pulp Speed would never be for him. I had no problem with that. Every writer is different and that’s great. Then this writer reminded me that he wrote rough (and sloppy) first drafts and rewrote three and four times and is lucky to get 100,000 words of fiction a year out, even though he spends three to five hours a day at it. I mentioned Heinlein’s Rules and how his writing method had trapped me for six years before I found Heinlein’s Rules and Bradbury and…