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More Interesting Conversations
Even More Really Interesting Conversations… Not only did I have a fun conversation at lunch today with three other professional writers, but tonight four of us found an area off to one side of the Anchor and talked for almost two hours. All about business. The workshop has a policy of no blogging about the workshop until after it’s over, so thus the vagueness of these posts. But one more day of fun, then back to normal here. And to some fun posts and announcements that might just surprise a few of you. I know it’s been fun here. ————— March Workshops Start Tuesday and Wednesday!! Below is the list…
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Another Short Post
Even More Really Fun Stuff… I have been having some wonderful lunch discussions with professional writers all week long. And tonight dinner discussions and after hours discussions. Got even more topics from the discussions I’ll be giving opinions on here as soon as the dust clears a little next week. Great fun for me. Stay tuned. ————— March Workshops Start Tuesday and Wednesday!! Below is the list of online workshops for March and all 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. And if you are confused…
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Fun Lunch Discussions and Other Stuff
Really Fun Stuff… I have been having some wonderful lunch discussions with professional writers all week long. Got a number of topics from the discussions I’ll be giving opinions on here as soon as the dust clears a little next week. Great fun for me. Stay tuned. ————— March Workshops Start Tuesday and Wednesday!! Below is the list of online workshops for March and all 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. And if you are confused as to which workshop to take first, we…
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Filler Tonight
Day 1,257… Not doing a full post tonight because I have spent the entire day either reading or on this computer and my eye needs a rest. But it was a fun day and a good one. And had to keep the blogging streak alive. (grin) Can’t break it after 1,257 days. Starting tomorrow (March 1st) I will be back posting full blogs with all the data. You remember… it looks like this… I got a lot of writing I want to do in March, so should be fun to track. Tracking Running… March 1st, 2017 — miles. No running. Weight 193. Month to date distance: — miles ————– Tracking Word Counts… March…
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March Online Workshops
Great Workshops This Coming Month… Stunning March is almost here. Wow, just wow. Below is the list of online workshops for March and all 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. And if you are confused as to which workshop to take first, we have a full curriculum posted on its own page. Class #21… Mar 7th … Author Voice Class #22… Mar 7th … Business Class #23… Mar 7th … Endings Class #24… Mar 7th … Ideas Class #25… Mar 7th … Writing and Selling Short Stories Class #26……
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Saturday Night Reading
Still finishing up some reading… Just about done. Which, actually, is kind of sad. I haven’t enjoyed reading this many great stories in a long time. I will be back reporting page counts, stories done, novels done, and all that shortly, including the exercise routine. (grin) Plus I have a few more rants/blogs/questions for this coming week that might be fun to talk about. We shall see. Don’t forget… just over a week until the March online workshops fire up. Openings in all of them at the moment.
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Looking at the Writing Advice
Very Seldom Do You Get a Stage Four Writer Being Honest… Most either play into the myths for fear of hurting their own writing sales or they say nothing. Some figure their way of doing things is just their way and would never work for anyone else. But Joe Lansdale, in a very simple article, sort of carefully told the truth about his writing. If you haven’t read it yet either from an original source or my earlier post, do so now. The Rules of Being a Professional Writer He started off by giving only two simple rules that I completely agree with. One, you must read. Second, you must write.…
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Writing Advice and Fun List
The Rules of Being a Professional Writer Also fun, Dayton Ward who is an amazing Star Trek writer and collector did a list of the top ten Star Trek books he wish he would have written. My Captan Proton book made his list. Fun! http://www.startrek.com/article/ten-for-ward-trek-books-i-wish-id-written
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Time to Rest… Blast from the Past
All Good Intentions… I spent all day in meetings, then working at my computer at work doing workshop stuff, then home at this computer and then reading. I rested my eye regularly, but still too tired in the eye to write much tonight or read much more. So the planned blog is replaced by this placeholder so I can keep my streak alive. Maybe tomorrow. In the meantime, how about a blast from the past on this Thursday? In this picture from the 1960 World Science Fiction Convention taken by Jay Kay Klein, Ron Ellik, Randall Garrett, Mark Irwin, Isaac Asimov, L. Sprague de Camp, Dirce Archer, and James Blish watch BJo…
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Just Reading…
Nothing to see here… Just piles and piles and piles of manuscripts. Kris and I are old-time editors and we read everything in paper manuscript format. Great fun and our cats are too old to care about the strange manuscript piles to cause issues. Clearly we need kittens. Now back to the pile… night.