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Five Days Left On Early-Bird Seminar Pricing…
Almost Forgot to Do A Post Tonight… Today was Kris and my wedding anniversary and even though we celebrate the day we met a lot more, we had a great evening with a fantastic dinner at one of our favorite restaurants. So after watching some television and doing some writing and reading a great Kris blog that will be on her Patreon page tomorrow, I shuffled off to bed to then suddenly realize I had forgot this. How annoying. Streaks will do that to you. So tonight I just need to remind you only four days left on the $400 Early-Bird price of the FEAR AND PRODUCTIVITY SEMINAR in January.…
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Kickstarter Friday
One Fiction Campaign This Week That Is Worth Studying and Backing… I do this every Friday when I have a few campaigns I think are worth putting here. Tonight there is one good one, a holiday campaign and some great reading. 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 yoy are going to…
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2026 Words Per Day in 2026 Challenge…
Average 2026 Words Per Day in 2026… Here are the details… Challenge yourself to average 2,026 words per day for the entire year of 2026. These would need to be consumable words. What are “consumable” words? — Any fiction of any type (no requirement to publish during the challenge time) — Any nonfiction that others will consume such as blogs, introductions to collections, things like that. — emails and comments on Facebook or blogs DO NOT COUNT. No genre limitations. Rules of Turn-In 1… Every month you must send me an email giving me your word count. I do not want to know what you are writing, just how much.…
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Productivity…
Every Writer I Know Thinks They Don’t Write Enough… Does not matter as to the level of the writer or the years in the business. It is uniform. No writer is as productive as they think they should be, or want to be. I am no exception to that. First off, don’t get the two words Productive and Prolific confused. They are not the same thing. Prolific is a person’s opinion of another writer, based most often on some unknown and unknowable amount of books published. I have seen writers who write one book a year for ten years called prolific. Productive is a relative description of a person’s work…
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Learning Curve Day…
Combination of Frustrating and Fun Been a while since I did a full book cover, spine, and back cover with InDesign, but worked out great even though I had to totally build it from scratch since previous administrations of WMG didn’t see fit to save a flipping template. Sigh…. Then went from InDesign to Canva, to start learning what everyone says is so easy. Well, not so much. Going to take me some time there. Got a hunch it is the InDesign learning making it more difficult as it did with Vellum. So put the cover for the first volume of DETECTIVES COLLIDE that I did into 3d and worked…
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Loss of Trademarks…
Writers Just Shovel Money into a Fire… By the very nature of what we do as Indie writers and publishers, we are creating trademarks. Common Law trademarks, but still trademarks. I always thought trademark meant “lawyers make more money.” But the reality is we all create trademarks all the time with our books, our series, our businesses. And no law says you must register them. And don’t let any fly-by-their-wallet lawyer tell you that you must. The term “trademark” basically means you are doing business (trade) with a name (mark). And trademark is basically the right to exclude someone else from making money with your name in the same area…
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Classes and Workshops Available In January On Teachable…
Teachable Screwed Up the Order Again… It is being fixed, but if not fixed when you go there, in the upper right is a menu with the option “Recommended Order” and if you pick that, it will revert back. I am putting the links to these classes below for easy access, Some great stuff starting up in January. And note: the January FEAR AND PRODUCTIVITY SEMINAR is not a Teachable class. Details on yesterday’s bog. Still lots of spots available. Also note: The 2026 Words Per Day in 2026 Challenge will be posted in the next few days along with the January regular workshops that will bring back some classics…
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January Seminar…
FEAR AND PRODUCTIVITY SEMINAR Preparation for the New Year January Seminar January 5th through January 30th Here is the post again for the January Seminar… Kris and I have been looking forward to doing this for most of the year, but knew that January would be the perfect time. January everyone is excited about the new year and moving forward, making the new year better than the last. So we want to help. And to do that, sometimes all it takes are a few small changes, a focus on a certain mindset, an understanding of what it takes to move past fear and be more productive. That’s what this seminar…
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Kickstarter Friday
No Fiction Campaigns This Week That Are Worth Studying and Backing… I do this every Friday when I have a few campaigns I think are worth putting here. Tonight no one sent me any campaigns to do, and honestly there were a few good campaigns, but ending in hours or one day and not worth mentioning. And one big one that is doing all right but will lose a ton of money. Not something to study. 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…
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Write More In the New Year!
FEAR AND PRODUCTIVITY SEMINAR Preparation for the New Year January Seminar January 5th through January 30th Kris and I have been looking forward to doing this for most of the year, but knew that January would be the perfect time. January everyone is excited about the new year and moving forward, making the new year better than the last. So we want to help. And to do that, sometimes all it takes are a few small changes, a focus on a certain mindset, an understanding of what it takes to move past fear and be more productive. That’s what this seminar is all about. It is about craft, publishing, mindset,…