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Getting Ready…
A Bunch to Learn or Relearn… Just to get ready to start this challenge of writing a novel every two weeks. And do collections. And other books. I got to relearn all over how to find art that is not AI. I got to relearn InDesign, which I have already started on and having a blast. Double column layouts of Smith’s Monthly issues will be a challenge. Using Vellum for regular books will seem easy people tell me. Getting my learning back up to full on Shopify will take a little time, but looking forward to that this coming year. None of that is the writing side, just the publishing…
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Half Price Sale…
I Sort of Forgot This Was Happening… This started a week ago when we started the Fall Indie Writer Festival. (Still room to join up. Talked today about toxic people and how to deal with the different types.) So right now, every class and workshop and lecture and pop-up on WMG Teachable is half price. Including the Lifetime Everything subscription that I can discount under half price if you have taken other classes and stuff. Write me for information on that. To get the class or workshop you want, just hit purchase on anything you want and then put in the code: FallHalfPrice You can get the class for 50%…
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Still Time for Fall Writing Festival!!!
FALL INDIE WRITING FESTIVAL… Online October 20th through November 14th The first week there were 44 videos. There will be between 150 and 200 learning videos in the four weeks you can do on your own time. No assignments at all. So jumping in now is great as the second week starts. But staying up with the videos as they go along also allows you to ask questions, which is an important part of this. Kris and I will answer the questions either in an email if personal, or in a video each day for all to learn from. You do not have to have taken the Indie Writing Camp,…
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Am I Really Going To Write a Novel Every Two Weeks?
Got That Question Twice in Emails… The short answer… I think I will try the challenge. But I am turning 75 and I love the idea of publishing 75 major books (novels, collections, novellas) in my 75th year. (I don’t tend to write novellas, so it will be mostly novels and collections and anthologies/magazines. So if I started on a novel every two weeks, I would write 26 if I hit it, but only publish 22 or 23 due to the time lag between finishing and publishing. A long way from 75… So for years now I have wanted to do a series of collections to get all my short…
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Kickstarter Friday (on a Saturday Night)
Some Fiction Campaigns That Are Worth Studying and Backing… I do this every Friday (didn’t have time last night to search for more than one, so pushed it until tonight to try to find a few others, but without luck.) when I have a few Kickstartere campaigns I think are worth putting here. 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 56 of them, every one funded and made money. My first campaign was in…
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Limits in Writing and Publishing…
Everyone Sets Their Own Limits… Actually not completely true. Everyone’s limits are set by what they learned from others, mostly non-writers spouting myths they learned at some point. And there are major myths that most writers never get past. — Writing Fast Is Writing Poorly — Everything Must Be Rewritten — Everything Must Be Perfect Before Publishing These myths and so many more are what limits each writer. And the myths were encouraged by agents who were never writers and also traditional publishing that could only handle so many books from a writer, usually just one per year. And the fear of what others will think stops millions of writers…
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Some Perspective…
Sometimes Life Just Tosses You Perspective… Tonight, while I sat in my Cadillac, waiting for Kris, I glanced over and there was a tiny kitten on the top of a wall right near the street. Then a person moved who had been sitting beside the wall, and I realized it was a homeless person with a sign. Now, we were way out north and west of town, in suburban and strip malls, where the homeless seldom went, but there was a restaurant Kris loved and I didn’t much care for. I had a basic McDonalds’ hamburger in a bag I wasn’t going to eat and some fries, so I took…
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One More Time Before Moving On…
All Kinds of Great Learning… Putting this here again because honestly it is quick and the internet at this time of the morning is going and coming… Oh, fun. So I am doing these and only one person so far has signed up on the Kickstarter Mentorship and still have two on the Sales Mentorship. After this post moving on to other fun stuff. KICKSTARTER MENTORSHIP… That’s right, one-on-one, I will help you build and launch a book kickstarter in the next three or four months that will fund, (I guarantee if you do as I say) and get you readers for your books, then I will continue to help…
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All Kinds of Internet Issues Tonight…
So Just Putting Up a Filler… To keep my blog streak active. Take a look at the past few blogs for great deals on classes and such. Fall Indie Writing Festival is three days in now, so lots of time to sign up. Last few posts… Now stopping before the internet eats this.
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Buried the Lead Yesterday
YES, HALF PRICE ON ALL WMG TEACHABLE CLASSES… Code is FallHalfPrice That should have been up front. And if interested in getting a Lifetime Everything, I can make you a good deal if you have taken a few classes already. https://wmg-publishing-workshops-and-lectures.teachable.com/ Hit see all courses… KICKSTARTER MENTORSHIP… That’s right, one-on-one, I will help you build and launch a book kickstarter in the next three or four months that will fund, and get you readers for your books, then I will continue to help you with how to fulfill the campaign. Yes, I said it. If you do what I say, both campaigns will fund and make you money. I promise…