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The Problem With a Streak…
…Especially a blog streak… …that has now lasted years, is that some nights, like tonight, the brain is so tired, it just doesn’t care and I have nothing at all to say. Yet the power of the streak requires me to type stuff. So take this post as a lesson in how powerful a streak on anything can be given enough time.
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Short Post Tonight to Keep My Streak Alive
Just got back to the room from the poker room…. I managed to get my 10,000 steps, do almost 3,000 words on the novel, and play a bunch of poker. I will detail it all out to those who are following the challenge after I get back how I managed to do that. I got knocked out of the tournament about four spots out of the money (big tournament) so since my friend I was with was still in the tournament, I moved over and sat down in a 4/8 limit game. (I haven’t played limit poker on a live table in a decade or more, but it was the…
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Great Fun Today
Taking a Very Short Trip... In fact, only a few days. Back in Vegas this weekend. I am flying first class and so got to go into the lounge area for the airline. Wow, nice, with all kinds of free food and comfortable tables and places to work. So since I had gotten to the airport early, I managed 1,300 words on the challenge novel in the lounge. Then on the two hour flight, my writing was only interrupted by them serving me dinner. (Yeah, tough life flying first class, but I can do that because flights in and out of Vegas are stunningly cheap if you know how to…
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The Three Negotiations Lectures Once Again
Making Sure They Didn’t Get Missed… Most of this is a post I did earlier about the three new Negotiations lectures. With all the craziness of the Kickstarter, I think it got lost a little. And Kris and I are very excited about them. And no worries, those of you who got the lifetime subscription to the lectures through the Kickstarter, in about a week I will contact everyone with any type of lifetime subscriptions through the Kickstarter and get you onto Teachable. So you will have more than enough time to start these new ones. Just have to wait until next week with Kickstarter. So here is all the…
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Twelve Hours Left on the Subscription Drive
We Hit the Sixth Stretch Goal… Lots of extra books to every supporter. This subscription drive has until 4 p.m. West Coast Time Monday (TODAY!). And then it will be all done and I will go back to reporting on my challenge and stirring up trouble. (grin) Give it a look if you haven’t so far. It has some pretty nifty awards and other things. Click Here. For example, we have an award where you get two writing books, a lecture, a subscription, and a chance to submit a story if you want to a volume of Fiction River in February. Here are the details for one last time. Pledge…
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Kickstarter Also Hit Fourth Stretch Goal
And Is Almost to the Fifth… Lots of extra books to every supporter. This subscription drive has until 4 p.m. Monday, in essence, as I write this, 36 hours to go. Give it a look if you haven’t so far. It has some pretty nifty awards and other things. Click Here. We have the new award where you get two writing books, a lecture, a subscription, and a chance to submit a story if you want to a volume of Fiction River in February. Here are the details. Pledge $100 or more. WRITER’S SPECIAL Get books, a lecture, a subscription, and the chance to be in a volume of Fiction…
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Back on Track
A Break in the Rough Life Weather… Finally, life today allowed me some hours for writing and I got some done. The first novel is just around 10,000 words so far, but I am picking up speed and loving the story. Still not one clue where it is going, but I hope to find out as soon as I finish it. Here is how I am looking at this challenge in a very simple way. I need to do a novel on average every ten days. That would be idea. So as I expected, this has been a very slow start. I haven’t even had time yet to write the…
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Three New Lectures
These Three Lectures Are Special… In fact, they will only be offered once each this fall and never again. Kris and I have been working on these for some time and finally decided to do them this fall. Very limited to the Lecture Lifetime Subscribers and ten more. I have zero doubt, from all the questions Kris and get constantly on this topic from writers, that these lectures will fill very, very quickly. So can you imagine one day the phone rings and it is someone you don’t know wondering if your movie rights are available??? Happens all the time. What do you do? And one day it will happen…
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New Fiction River Kickstarter Award for Writers
We Think This Is A Good One… It is at the $100 reward level for that only has four days left!!! Here is the Reward We Just Added… ——— Pledge $100 or more. WRITER’S SPECIAL Get books, a lecture, a subscription, and the chance to be in a volume of Fiction River. You will get two writing books in electronic format out of the list of writing books in the WMG Inventory. You will also get your choice of a lecture on writing, a $50 to $75 value. You will also get a full year (six issues) subscription to Fiction River. All of that has a value of about $100.…
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Total Miss
Day Turned Into a Crazy Busy Day… So no words done today. Will I miss other times on this challenge? Oh, you bet. I knew these last two days were going to be tough before I even set up this challenge. And sadly, I was right. But not worried in the slightest. The next seven look pretty good, so I still think I can get book one done by the end of the 10th day. We shall see. One thing about writing, it is never a straight-line process. Tomorrow I got something really cool to add into the last week of our Fiction River Kickstarter. I will announce it here.…