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Story Ten and a Bunch of Workshop Stuff
DAY TEN… Pretty much did workshops all day except I also had the wonderful pleasure of helping a friend get back into his house after being in the hospital for a month. Sort of made my day, actually, that he is home. But otherwise, it was workshops, most assignments since March is finishing up and April is getting started. Plus answered more questions about The Great Bundle workshop which has people intrigued, to say the least. (grin) Also, for those thinking of either trying to come to the Master Business Class or the Anthology Workshop, both Coast workshops, both are almost full. I did manage a few minutes to get…
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Story Number Nine and Other Stuff
DAY NINE… Pretty laid-back Sunday. Very few at the writer’s meeting at lunch. So I got a bunch of workshop work done on the next Strengths workshop to launch in a few days. Then came home to actually write. Ended up with the 6th novel start, but this one again actually worked as a short story. And is an origin story for a brand new character and series. And this one started differently than my normal title. I was looking at the blank title on my screen, sort of scanning through the half-title sheets when a first line sprung into my head. Love it when that happens. And I just…
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Two More Stories in Two Days
Yesterday Was All The Great Bundle Workshop and May Online Workshops. But I still managed to finish a story yesterday and another tonight. Seven stories in seven days. Go figure. A good number of people jumped into The Great Bundle workshop in just the first day after we announced it. Wow, is that going to be a fun week. On Sunday or Monday and into next week I will have more chapters of the Magic Bakery book as well as write more short stories. I am getting a ton of novel ideas out of this month of short fiction. Started a number of things that were instantly novels over the last…
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Long But Good Day and Fifth Story
Spent All Day With a Friend in the Hospital… But still managed on almost no sleep to finish a short story. Go figure. ———- The Day… Last night I had planned on working all the way until 6 a.m. and then Kris would get up and we would head into the valley to sit with friends while another friend was in surgery. Writer J. Steven York, a friend of thirty years, was having open heart surgery. His wife, Chris York (mystery writer under other names) was going to need company. They were there for me when Kris ended up in emergency surgery five years back. It was the least we…
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Fourth Story Finished Sort of…
Well, that was fun… Worked on the fourth short story. It is as done as it will get at this point because as I was going along it suddenly became very clear to me that this story would be a novel. So I pretended to wrap it up and just call it done, but not showing it to anyone. A very future novel. See below ———- The Day… Got up to WMG by 2 p.m. and worked on a new project we will announce shortly. Totally nuts, but in a good way I hope. Also took a long walk to get steps. Then home to cook dinner and do the assignments…
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Third Story Finished and April Workshops Starting
ANOTHER GOOD DAY… Got the short story challenge going strong. Finished a third short story tonight and finished up another chapter on the Magic Bakery book. A good solid day and a lot of fun. ———- The Day… Got up to WMG by 2 p.m. and worked on covers for a couple of my collections and a bunch of workshop stuff. Also took a long walk to get steps. Then home to cook dinner and do the assignments for the workshops. Then off to watch The Voice. Back here around 2 a.m. and I wrote the chapter of the Magic Bakery. Then around 3 a.m., I went for half-titles to get…
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Second Story Finished
OFF TO A DECENT START… Got the short story challenge going strong. Finished a second short story tonight. Also today went to the writer’s lunch and worked a bunch on workshop stuff. A good solid day and a lot of fun. ———- The Day… Got up to WMG by 2 p.m. for the writer’s lunch. Then around 4 Kris and I went for a walk. I only managed four miles today, which is fine as I ramp this back up. I got back to my office around 5:30 and worked there until almost eight on workshop stuff. Store and then home to cook dinner. Did some e-mail and more workshop…
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Starting Up… Here We Go…
TRACKING EVERYTHING PLUS A CHALLENGE… All starting up again as many of you have asked me to do for a time. So I will be tracking writing, exercise, and also a new short story challenge for at least this month and maybe longer. Also sort of going over what I did each day so you can see how crazy my life is and how I still manage to write a bunch. And I will continue with The Magic Bakery book as well. ———- The Day… A good day overall. Got up to WMG in the middle of the afternoon after doing some e-mail. Then after a little work there and…
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EMail Fun Tonight
Didn’t Get Another Chapter… But I will in the next few days. Tonight has been the big e-mail move around. No one should notice anything. My regular e-mail is just fine. But since SFF.net, one of my e-mail providers for 20 plus years decided to shut down in a few days, I had to get a few back-up e-mails working. And that is great fun. Deadline hell for something I flat didn’t want to do. (grin) And there went my writing time for both fiction and the Magic Bakery book. But got the emails working. A relief. So maybe tomorrow night for a chapter on the bakery.
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Collections and Workshops
Short post tonight to keep my blogging streak alive on this Saturday night. Turned in two collections tonight, plus worked on the Strength workshops this afternoon and evening. I will try to remember to let you know when the collections are live. We will be another few weeks before we get the sixth Strengths workshop up. We are enjoying working on them and answering assignments. So far so good. If you want to take three you get the fourth one free and if you take all six you get a monthly online workshop free as well. Information about the Strength Workshops is at Strength Workshops