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Fun New Workshops
New Pop-Up and A Romance Workshop Fun day today. I have two new workshops up and available, plus all of January Regular workshops are available for sign-up now. LOCKED ROOM MYSTERIES Pop-up #17 is now available. I love locked-room mysteries, but there is not enough about them to fill a six-week workshop without getting into extreme depth of topic, so tips on how to write locked-room mysteries fit perfectly in a Pop-Up. And it is also in the bundle of Pop-Ups #11-20. Second, I put up the new regular workshops for January, starting on the 7th. And the first workshop in January is Writing Romance. All are available right now.…
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Real Life Sensory Lesson
But Taste is So Hard!… I get that all the time from writer after writer who always seem to be under the misunderstanding that to taste something, the character must actually be chewing on something. Nope. So when I say use all five senses every five hundred words in a story to really add in character and depth, the complaint about taste comes popping up. So here is what happened today… Kris and I had walked to a great lunch spot in the Arts District of Las Vegas. Day was warm, not too hot, sun was out, flowers blooming along the sidewalks. (Yes, flowers bloom here in the winter.) For…
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Writer Delusion
There Are Numbers of Them… But only going to talk about one at the moment. However, just like myths, writers have many, many delusions that hold them back. Delusion: A fiction writer knows for a fact they can write good sales copy. Reason for the Delusion: After all, they are fiction writers and it is their story. Fact: I know of maybe a handful of fiction writers who know how to write good sales copy. And not one New York fiction editor. But most writers have the delusion that they can write sales copy, the second most important element in sales after the cover. And then wonder why their books…
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Anthology Workshop News and A Cat Picture
On Teachable Now for Assignments If you are in the anthology workshop and did not get a letter from me tonight (Sunday) on how to get into the anthology workshop on Teachable to get the third assignment, write me. ANOTHER RUN… Two in two days, although the Santa Run wasn’t much of a push because with that many people, running was almost impossible. Too much fun, anyway. But today was another matter. I was up before the sun came up and we were going off the starting line in Henderson at 8 am. Cold, wind in our faces, and uphill for exactly 1.5 miles. Without a break. Brutal. But I…
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Promised Pictures of Craziness
10,000 or More Santas… In one place. Running and walking 5K. At one point about four blocks into the run, I climbed up on some courthouse steps. As far as I could see in both lanes of Las Vegas Blvd, headed toward the Strip, were Santas. And as far as I could see, stretching back into downtown Las Vegas and Fremont Street, there were Santas. Kids in Santa suits, dogs in Santa suits, all sizes of humans in Santa Suits. We did this last year and that was one of the first moments I knew I was going to love this crazy city more than I already had over the…
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Another Friday Night With Nothing To Say
I’ve Been Reading Challenge Stories… Working to get caught up. And enjoying it, actually. Just slow because of bad eyes. Also not running much this week letting a muscle pull heal from falling off a curb while carrying a 40 pound box, but tomorrow is a fun run and then another on Sunday, so there will be pictures and I will try not to strain the muscle again. Beyond that I am working on getting ready for 2020 and beyond. And doing some recording of workshop videos and such. So busy, just not much to write about here on a Friday night. Maybe tomorrow…
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Licensing Transition Videos
And All December Workshops Started… That’s right, I have seven of the bunch of videos I will be doing this month in the Licensing Transition Class up. I emailed those in the group, but I noticed that a lot of those who signed up opted out of email notices, so nothing I can do on that. Most of these seven are just historical stuff about me and Kris and how looking at a decade is possible and impossible at the same time. Licensing takes time, got to learn how to think longer-term, something most writers find almost impossible to do. And also the December regular workshops have all started up.…
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Tip of the Week Has Ended
Tonight I Posted the Last Five Weeks… And I opened up all the tips from January 1st, 2018 all the way through to those who are signed up right now. And killed the $10 per month charging fee. After two years of weekly tips, I am done in that format. I will be announcing something new and different for 2020 later this month which will have tips as well as much, much more. So anyone who is has been taking Tip of the Week now and was signed up now has access to all 104 writing tips. However, I had two people ask me if they could get all 104…
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In A Hurry
All Writers Early On Are In A Hurry… I know for a fact I was no exception to that fact when I started publishing. And I have talked about this here and in workshops a lot of times in a lot of different ways. But today and tonight I had a couple reminders. Two reminders from writers, one reminder as I was recording some new videos for the Licensing Transition (they are not posted yet. More to record tomorrow.) One aspect about licensing is that nothing happens fast. And it often will take years to build a good license with a partner. I will talk about that more in the…
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Holiday Workshop Also Starting
HOW TO WRITE A HOLIDAY STORY… The December session is starting. The only way to sign up for this workshop was back when we did the Kickstarter for the fantastic Holiday Spectacular. Everyone who signed up for the three-week workshop should have gotten an email from me with codes. You can’t get into that workshop if you are not already signed up, but you can still get into the Holiday Spectacular to have a story delivered every day if you want. Not only do you get all the 30 stories or so that are still coming over this entire month, but you get the ones that are already up. So…