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Some Running Pics
Just For Fun… I have such bad allergies yesterday and today, I can barely focus. So doing this is about all that I can manage. First is a great picture of Kris out on the course. Second is a picture of Kris crossing the finish line. Third picture of me out on the course working to stay with the guy in the hat in front of me. He’s a year older than I am at 72 so we are in the same age group for awards, which neither one of us won this time around. Me crossing the finish line with him. That was a win for me.
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In-Person Workshops
Leaving Price at $750… We had planned for a while to make the In-Person workshops $1,000 so we could find better location. But now that we have found the Resorts World, the cost is not that much more for WMG if everyone stays at the hotel. So for the moment, we are going to leave it at $750. (Again, through the workshop the room rate is $75 plus real resort fees.) You can see the full list and dates of the next seven in-person workshops here https://wmgworkshops.com/in-person/ Only two spots left in January FANTASY CAPER. The spots are getting tight for the May ROMANTIC SUSPENSE and the July FANTASY THRILLER.…
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New In-Person Workshops Location
RESORTS WORLD in Las Vegas… Yes, for future in-person workshops, we have moved to Resorts World. This is three major hotels in one place with a massive convention area. Brand new, with a ton restaurants on site, plus a ton of others close by. Room rates through our workshop codes is $75 a night plus resort fees. THAT IS CHEAPER than the Golden Nugget was three years ago. And the rooms are all brand new and it is quiet!! And since these are writing workshops, there is about a billion places to sit and write not counting your room. The first workshop to be held there is the FANTASY CAPER…
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All October Regular Workshops Are Live
And Lots of Room To Sign Up for Any of Them… Actually, after this month I will take a few of these and move them to the Classic Workshops. No one has signed up for months on some of them, which is a sign the workshop has run its course. I will post the November workshops later this week. All the October workshops just started yesterday and today, so nothing missed if you sign up now. All are six weeks long and have five assignments you send me. Any questions on any of them, just write me. You can find them all on WMG Teachable. Here is the list and…
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I Never Look Back…
But At Times I Am Forced To By Circumstances… I write stories, one draft, cycling, and finished. For fiction, I have a person go over it to find typos. Kris reads it to help with the typos. I never look at a story again. Now I have published well over 400 short stories (a number of them from my early years and because they were horror, they no longer fit what I am doing, so I have never republished them.) But most I have put through Smith’s Monthly and then indie published. A bunch have been in anthologies I have never republished in Smith’s Monthly as well. Someday I will.…
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Updates On Workshops and Things
Lots of Updates… First off, everyone who signed up for the two special workshop in the Fey Kickstarter should have a letter from me with links to the workshops. If you did not get them and were signed up for either Writing Magical Systems or Combining Steampunk and Fantasy, check your spam filter and if not there, write me. Next, everyone who signed up for another workshop through the Fey Kickstarter should have a letter from me in one way or another as well. Next, the four Pop-Up give-away classes from the Pulphouse Kickstarter are still a couple weeks out. I’ll announce here when they are going out. (Everyone should…
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A Fun Bunch of Covers…
All Smith’s Monthly Covers in One Place… You really might want to check this out. Something I am very proud of. All 65 issues of Smith’s Monthly in one place. https://wmgpublishinginc.com/smiths-monthly-magazine/ Just go there and scroll down. I found it pretty amazing and I did them all. Four or five original short stories in every issue and a bunch of novels, non-fiction, and other stuff. I do a new issue every month and I still find it head-shaking that I am doing this. On another topic, this blog is short because I have to be up at 6:30 am tomorrow morning (yes, I don’t normally go to bed until 3…
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A Day of Nothing
I Seldom Have a Day Like Today… This one was by choice and schedule. This weekend I will be back in here doing workshop and business and emails. Started off getting up early to go with Kris to the gym. I did a 5k of mostly walking on the track while she was in a class. Then home for a shower and off to lunch with some local writers. Fun. Then headed way out in Summerlin to pick up our packets for the 5K Vegas Strong run on Sunday. Supposed to be about 5,000 people walking and running to honor the October 1st shooting here and support charities that help…
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Second Part of My New Challenge…
I Should Have Set This Up From January 1st… I started off the year with the challenge to write a short story per day for the entire year. I did fine for three months until the very issue I had been worried about before I started finally caught up with me. I wrote some stories through the summer, but back at my normal pace of about 50 new short stories per year. I was going to do 100 stories in the last 100 days, but the day before I was to start that, Kris and I were talking and I said, “I can’t figure out why my critical voice is…
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Fun Challenge
October Until The End of the Year Challenge… Actually, only part of it. A really fun publishing challenge. Shortly I will be putting up on Teachable all the Collection Classes for 2023. 18 different ones. Six from the first year we did them in 2021 (and if you bought the full year, yes, you can take them in 2023.) Six from the second year. And six new ones for 2023. I will have all of these posted in about a week or so. Each collection class is 9 weeks long and you write five stories during that time, as well as learn how to put a collection together, do the…