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One More Day of Filler
Should Have Expected a Tired Day… …after spending over ten hours yesterday hauling and moving truck-loads of stuff. But I thought I would be back to speed today. Nope. Almost, but nope. Still got a lot done, though. At one point today there were six WMG Employees in the new store putting things together. And we still had two of our stores open and someone still in the publishing office. Great fun. Josh got a great picture of me up on a ladder with Dan, the manager of the bookstore holding my belt to make sure I didn’t go over backwards since the ground was soft under the ladder. Below…
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Filler Time…
I Stopped Moving… Not done with the move (will finish the rest in late July), but I stopped moving after four twenty-foot-truck-loads today and another car full around 7 p.m. Started at 9 a.m. That is a stupid amount of physical work for a 67 year-old overweight guy. Thankfully I also had two great young guys I had hired, but still kept up with them as I have a want to do. And thanks Matt for bringing me a late lunch. Very much appreciated. Great to have good friends. After all that I spent the night watching television, something I almost never do. Then could barely climb out of the…
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That Was Very Interesting…
THANK YOU!… Everyone, for the feedback, both in the comments and in letters. Both Kris and I were surprised, to be honest. The desire for a depth-like workshop talking about information flow was across the board. And even the Magic Bakery had a lot of people wanting to take it. Plus we got a bunch of other ideas for workshops. Some were on our lists like a Romance online workshop (very different from the intense craft Romance workshop Kris will do in Vegas next year). But one idea hadn’t occurred to us and that was a workshop about how to use tags. Tags are one of the most powerful tools…
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Two Possible New Workshops
Scheduling and Trying to Decide… Working on the next four months of regular workshop schedules and I have sort of settled on two new workshops I would love to put together with Kris. So feedback is welcome. And yes, lifetime subscribers you will get any new workshop we do automatically. So first off, I like the idea of doing a Magic Bakery Workshop. Six weeks covering all kinds of details about how writers make a living and run a business with the focus on copyright and IP valuation. Now we did two advanced lectures on those two topics, but this would be so, so much more detailed and into the…
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Controlled By Fear
Needing an Agent is an Irrational Fear… I said that in a webinar today and got a couple comments later from writers who had heard it. And it dawned on me that even though needing an agent is based completely in irrational fears, most writers don’t understand that. Even though it is obvious to me. So here I am again, trying to talk logic at a myth once again. Almost always a failure, but I keep trying. And Kris and I talking about agents sure stirs up the trolls out there. Wow, you would think it was us that just recently stole the 3.4 million from writers instead of agents.…
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Webinars Sunday for The Indie Game and Fear Workshops
They Will Both Be Fun… The Insider’s Guide workshops The Indie Game and Fear in Writing will be great fun tomorrow (Sunday) for an hour-plus each in webinar format. Both of these could have some amazing discussions and questions as the weeks go by. Lifetime subscribers stop by even if you didn’t turn in an assignment. The link is at the bottom of the first week’s assignments in both workshops. The Game webinar will be at 11 a.m. West Coast Time US and the Fear webinar will be at 1 p.m. West Coast US. We did both workshops originally as the weekend workshops. We are not changing out the videos…
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A Picture of Me Typing
On My Little iPad… Since my office in the condo in Las Vegas is not set up yet, I was sitting at the table in our condo dining room working on something when Kris got this picture as I was paying no attention. Since today I spent all day shuttling cars around here on the Oregon Coast (returning rental car, having our Cadillac tuned up), and in meetings at WMG and stores and cleaning up stuff, I figured I would just do something easy here tonight. So here comes the picture. You can see the mountains to the west of Vegas through the shades. And I had a fun dinner…
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Back On The Oregon Coast
Arrived at 1:30 a.m…. So if you sent me an email in the last half of Thursday, I will get to it on Friday afternoon. Too tired tonight to trust myself answering emails. But back to normal tomorrow afternoon. I will also have the hotel codes to send out this weekend for the Master Business Workshop and Anthology Workshop. And also the webinar links for the Game and Fear workshop webinars this Sunday. They will be on the assignment video for the first week after tomorrow evening. So now to get some sleep. And if not for the blog challenge, I would have skipped this blog. The power of a…
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Forgotten Writers
Amazing How Many There Are… Today Kris and I spent almost the entire day putting books on shelves in our offices and in other areas of our new condo. And we both kept noticing how many writer’s books we had from writers no longer working in fiction. Now, there are a ton of reasons for a writer to vanish. Death, of course, sickness, family, and so on. Most of those you hear about in one form or another at one point or another. Especially if you are a fan of the writer. But so many of the writers had just vanished. This business does that to writers. Talked last week…
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Building a New Writing Office
Interesting Focus… I feel that a writing office has to be comfortable and I like to surround myself with books and other nifty stuff, including a white board. But this is the first time in almost two decades I have built a new writing place. So that is forcing me to stop and think some about this task. Now, I understand, I can write anywhere. Especially in this city. And I most likely will. But I want that anchor point, the place to go back to. I need a place to focus my writing. I can do sessions or entire short stories anywhere, even novels in hotel rooms. But I…