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Reporting Words and Steps
Going to Start Again… Numbers of people have written me and asked if I was going to start keeping track of the writing and such again, plus the exercise, on a daily basis. Answer is yes. For a month or so this spring I will track it again carefully starting on the first of the month. And I will detail out my day each day as well. Might as well do that as I am ramping up the writing and exercise. Also, just about ready to start writing that new blog book called The Magic Bakery: Understanding Copyright for the Modern Fiction Writer. That will start next week. Considering how…
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Spent the Night Reading
And Not Even For a Workshop… Yes, I always tell writers they must read for pleasure, but then never talk about my own reading here much. Granted, I did mention reading a number of times when working on the 1.3 million words for the anthology workshop. But past that, I just think of reading for pleasure as something I sort of do all the time. Most in bits and pieces. I am a paper reader. I don’t own a reading device, although there are a number of them scattered around the house. I do own an iPad, but never use it for much of anything. And I do read workshop…
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Being Behind And Setting Goals
Yup, We Are All Behind… I sort of talked to myself last week in a few blog posts about the stress that often goes with being behind. And the freedom of this new world that causes that feeling of never enough time. Well, in an effort to continue to talk to myself and let you guys listen in on my ramblings, I’m going to try to get a solution to being behind at the moment. If my solution works in some form for your writing projects, great. First, not going to look back. That solves nothing. Like rewriting a story. A complete waste of time. Today, here in the middle of…
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Back to Writing
Finally Got Started Tonight… Started and finished a short story from a prompt from a fun challenge. A short Bryant Street story, Got it done and had fun, even with one false start. Here is how the writing night went for those interested on this Saturday night. Started with the prompt about subject sort of in the back of my mind. The prompt in summary was basically reburying an old skeleton. So off I went to my title sheets of half titles from old digest magazines. I grabbed a half-title “Tombstone” off of one list and “Cliff” off of another, slammed them together for “Tombstone Cliff” and started typing. I realized…
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Information Overload
Brain Fried… I had a hunch that would happen tonight after almost four hours of talking writing and business of writing with 18 professional writers. Tonight it seemed to all focus on marketing and discoverability. Wow, just wow. So instead of trying to talk about something intelligent, figured I would clean up some business and answer some questions. Thanks Everyone Who Bought the Bundle. Turned out to be a good one and the charity made some nice money as well. So thanks. Questions Answered On Strength Workshops — I want to repeat that there is no hurry at all in taking the workshops. You can work on them at your…
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The Magic Bakery and a Disappearing Bundle
Full of Magic Pies… I have been working with Kris on the Strengths Workshops and in both the business and the sales workshops, the concept of the magic bakery keeps coming up in varied ways. I had forgotten how powerful the concept actually is. I haven’t talked much about the magic bakery here in the last few years. And to really understand all the ramifications of it and how to use it, you will need to take the Strengths Workshops, both business and sales. But for those of you who do not have a clue what I am talking about, imagine your finished story is a pie. The copyright property…
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A Giant Ape Kind of Day
How was that for a silly blog title?… But that’s what it sort of was, actually. Kris and I decided we needed a day doing something different. Can’t call it a day off when our job is having fun writing and playing in publishing. But we do need to do something different at times. So we drove into the valley and saw King Kong: Skull Island. Fun. Exactly as expected. I ate too much popcorn. Then we had a nice dinner, found a good pie shop for pie, then headed home after walking around a big discount store for a time to make sure we had our steps. When we…
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Why Is The Strengths Workshop Hard?
A Couple People Asked That Question Today… I will be announcing the new Strengths workshops (yes, there are more than one this time). And I said in the comment yesterday we don’t do these except once every few years because they are so difficult ON ME AND KRIS. Kris and I have writing to do, a business to run, life to enjoy. We contain our help of other writers to our blogs and to the online workshops and only four coast workshops a year. It might seem like a lot from the outside, but actually it’s not bad from our side. However, to do service to the writers signing up…
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March Online Workshops Starting
March Online Workshops Starting… Still room to jump in. Also, in the next day or so I will announce something Kris and I are doing once again, against our better judgement, but because we got a great deal of requests to do it again after two years. Strengths. Only this time we will be doing it more extensively in a series of workshops to figure out where you are at and what you are strong at and areas you need to work on. The four areas will be Craft, Business, Sales, and Genre. Both basic and advanced in all four. (I’ll explain it all.) They will be very similar to a…
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March Online Workshop Letters Sent
A Lot of Workshop Stuff… Not only did the wonderful coast Anthology Workshop end today, but tonight I got all letters out to the March online workshop folks. So if you think you are signed up for a March online workshop and didn’t get a letter from me, write me. Still room and time to jump into any of the ten of the workshops in March. See below. ————— March Workshops Start Tuesday and Wednesday!! All March workshops have spots open. In fact, only the business workshop is close to filling. So for information on how to sign up, go to… www.wmgpublishingworkshops.com Any questions at all, feel free to write me.…