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Help With Time of Great Forgetting…
Help Coming if You Take It… This year will be a brutal Time of Great Forgetting for most authors. The cause of these months just vanishing from your writing is distractions. Lots and lots of them. Good weather, family events, graduations, gardening, sports, you name it. Massive distractions away from a great schedule you have been maintaining all winter so far with the writing. And also at the moment we have the head-shaking distraction of the craziness coming out of the US government. You combine that with a desire to cover your head or just run into the garden and it makes this coming few months maybe the worst Time…
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Kickstarter for Poker Boy
Four Poker Boy Collections! Forty stories, plus you can also get the only Poker Boy novel (origin novel) and a sequel novella. We started off great and funded in just over an hour, which is stunning considering we had stopped promoting it was coming a week ahead because of issues (which got resolved at 10 am before we launched.) And we hit the first stretch goal in about 14 hours. Wow! Thanks to you who have backed it already. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/403649867/poker-boy?ref=2uys1x Now we have been stuck just $120 from the next stretch goal. In this campaign there are fun new special workshops in how to write Superhero Stories and also How…
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Only Lost Two Stories…
Getting Everything Organized… Only cost me two stories. Going to make everything a ton easier and should be no issue catching up those two stories in the next week or so. Wow, did I find some stuff. With the novel starts so far in this new challenge (eight so far), I found another six or seven in the piles of manuscripts. So going to have a lot of novels lined up for next year. And I found stories that had been included in novels, but not put in Smith’s Monthly and so on. But interestingly enough, I was in better shape with those old stories than I thought. Only about…
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Getting Really Organized…
I Mean Really, Really Organized… So I am writing all these new stories. And they are in bunches of different series. At the moment they are just printed out and stacked by the day and month I wrote it. Yeah, that’s stupid. And I have two file cabinet drawers full of manuscripts I’m not sure where they go, or have gone, or even what they are. And I have a spreadsheet of all the stories that have been in the sixty-seven issues of Smith’s Monthly, along with in some cases the collections they have been in. Some cases. So I was having issues getting started on a story tonight because…
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POKER BOY KICKSTARTER IS LIVE!!!
My 50th Kickstarter!!! Now Live!! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/403649867/poker-boy?ref=2uys1x Fun new special workshops, fun merch, and even every issue of Smith’s Monthly. Great stuff. Watch the fun video that Kris did. Might have to click it twice to start.
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Time of Great Forgetting
To Get Though the Coming Months… Most writers need a focus of some sort. Today is a great restart date if you had a rough start to the year, or if you are just ready to go. But this month is the start of the time of great forgetting for writers. It lasts from the middle end of this month until July when writers surface and wonder what happened to the last few months. Spring, great weather outside, vacations, graduations, gardens, and a billion other things happened. I talk about this every year and some writers are managing to get through it and still focus on the writing. For me…
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April Regular Workshops Starting This Week!!
Added Two From Classics This Month… Heinlein’s Rules and Power Words. Here is the full list… Starting April 1st… Heinlein’s Rules (one month only) Writing Into the Dark Teams in Fiction Depth in Writing Killing the Critical Voice Advanced Depth Writing with Power Words (one month only) All workshops are on WMG Teachable. All are six weeks long with five assignments. Those with Workshop Subscription or Everything Subscription, write me for the codes if you want to do the assignments. And please tell me which subscription you have. Thanks! And the Lifetime Everything Subscription is still on sale for half price. If interested, write me directly. That is the only…
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THE GREAT RESTART COMING…
The First of April… A Lot of Year Left… I was doing a calculation of if it would be better to restart the 2025 words per day challenge or try to catch up. The answer is that it depends on how far behind you are. If you are on target at 2,025 words per day, by the end of March you would have written 182,250 words. (Really adds up, doesn’t it?) If you are only 15,000 to 20,000 words behind, no question. You can make that up easily. Extra 50 to 75 words per day. There are 275 days left. Adding 100 words per day to 2025 words would catch…
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An Example of Two Brands
Author Brand and Project Brand… This Poker Boy Kickstarter campaign we hope to launch next week is really pulling together some clear images of how branding looks on the surface. I have an author brand that sort of got lost for a short time, but it back now very clearly. And projects it got lost on we will be rebranding very soon. Then Poker Boy now has a clear logo and covers that will be consistent over time with cards and fantasy women. So take a look at this image of some mugs we are offering in the campaign. My author brand, Poker Boy brand and logo, and the cover…
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PROJECT #50
Poker Boy Kickstarter Will Be #50… All have funded. Wow, that is a lot of projects and a lot of learning. Everyone one of them had different issues either in the project itself or behind the scenes in the building of the project. Yes, even this one. But almost all of them have been great fun to do. We did our first campaign for FICTION RIVER in August 2012. Another campaign for FICTION RIVER IN 2014, and another in 2016. Then in 2017 we launched PULPHOUSE FICTION MAGAZINE with a Kickstarter. What is great fun is that we are finally relaunching FICTION RIVER this summer with a Kickstarter campaign. We…