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Finished a Novel
Tomorrow Will Be Starting New One… I have a big project to put up on Teachable tomorrow that will be free for everyone, but past that I am going to be getting ready to start the Cave Creek novel. How do I get ready? Simply put, I file the stuff from the novel I finished and turned in tonight. Get a blank yellow pad ready, and maybe start writing, depending on the time of day or night. So starting tomorrow I will be talking about my days and the writing of this next novel, including starting up. THE FINAL THIRTY-FOUR Now out for sale. We will be sending it to…
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New Pop-Up Coming
How Your Business Can Survive a Downturn… It will be Pop-Up #19. Available in a few days. It will be put inside of the Decade Ahead First Quarter class. We had always planned on putting it in there, with Pop-Up #18 in February and this new one in March. But we did not expect what is happening now when we planned this. Scary times. This Pop-up will help. So the Pop-Up #19 will be available in the Decade Ahead First Quarter or as a stand-alone or in the bundles for Pop-Ups. I will announce it here when it is posted. Honestly, the best deal is the Decade Ahead Bundle, get…
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What Is Writing In Public?
Got That Question Twice Today… Because I mentioned it when talking about writing the first Cave Creek novel. So even though I will show this and talk about it later this week when I start the novel, here is what I mean. I have, over time, basically did a chronicle here of my day, most of the details, and how much writing I got on a certain project. I did that when I wrote the novel in five days while traveling, and that is the name of the book that came out of the blog posts. And I started the practice when I wrote a novel in ten days as…
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Something Fun…
For Cave Creek Kickstarter Backers… I have decided to give all the backers of the Cave Creek a short story or two. As a way of saying thanks for the support in the Kickstarter. First one will go out later this week. “If Twilight Zone had a home town, it would be Cave Creek.” That’s how we are describing Cave Creek, and I have those writers in the Shared Worlds Class (still open to sign up) going and getting up to speed on the early Twilight Zone episodes. Because they are all going to be writing Cave Creek stories if they want. So I figured I would give the supporters…
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Going Running
Very Early In the Morning… After Daylight Savings Time switches… Yikes… So nothing to talk about tonight, other than I was told earlier that fulfillment for the Year of the Cat Kickstarter will be going out this coming week. And I hope everyone who got the nifty How To Write a Cat Story special workshop got my letter and codes. If not, write me. And the Cave Creek Kickstarter campaign is going toward the first stretch goal at a good pace. And it is in the second stretch goal that we started to put writer rewards. So pass the word. And the special workshop that you can only get in…
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I Think This Is Cool!
Three of My Collections… As most of you know, I seldom talk about my books or what I am publishing here, except when I am doing a challenge or writing in public on a project. But last year I did do a nifty Make 100 Short Stories Kickstarter that many of you backed. And you should have gotten two of the three large anthologies promised. But when I looked at all three of them together on WMG Publishing site, I found it very cool. So take a glance. I love the branding and the look and am proud of those three collections.
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Two New Projects
I Am Having A Blast… Working on two new projects. One you will see in a day or so and has a lot to do with the Shared World Class. And I am madly working on finishing a new Cold Poker Gang novel for a coming bundle. Yes, it is a cat novel. Not kidding. I seldom talk about books and stories I am writing here. But got a couple short-challenges coming up I may do the old daily writing report I haven’t done for a while. We shall see. And speaking of cats, if you got the Special How to Write a Cat Story workshop reward in the Year…
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A Great Writing Article
Talking About Human Normal Actions… Wow, does this article give you some great writing stuff. Especially on how normal humans react to what we are facing with this virus threat. Nothing ugly, I promise. Very much worth the read for your writing. So thought I would share it. http://www.psandman.com/col/teachable.htm
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First Of The Month!
Good Time To Start A Challenge… Publishing Challenge, Short Story Challenge, or Novel Challenge. All are open and a great way to keep your goals on track for the year. And a number of writers are in sight of lifetime subscriptions on the short story challenge, one on the novel challenge, and one has already gotten a lifetime subscription on the novel challenge. Keep going, folks. Only four people are signed up for the Publishing Challenge. That one seems to scare hell out of writers. (grin) This weekend I will be doing a bunch of posts about the first of March in the Decade Ahead class. And also a bunch…
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Visions of the Future
Only 20 Hours Left… This is a fantastic deal, folks. And it is about to expire. Get ten fantastic science fiction novels and collections, including my novel Dust and Kisses, a prequel to my Seeders Universe series. And you can get Kris’s novel Consequences, a Retrieval Artist novel. You can find all ten at Storybundle.com until about 10 pm West Coast time. And don’t forget to toss in an extra buck or two for Ablegamers.com, one of the great organizations of all time.