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Reporting Writing Challenge…
Started April 1st… Over five months ago. Started off slow and still slow for me, but I have now been pretty consistent over 20,000 words per week as of late. Slow for me. But firing up on a new personal writing challenge on September 15th that I hope to hold until December 15th. I would like to write a story per day during that time. 91 stories. If I hit that I got a hunch I will go on and make it an even hundred by the end of the year. (I did over that number for the first four months of 2022.) That and working on other projects of…
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Great New Novel
Diving Kickstarter Is Going Great! IVORY TREES: A Diving Kickstarter Campaign by Kristine Kathryn Rusch is in the middle. IVORY TREES: A Diving Universe Novel is a stunning new novel in the Diving Universe. It is a heist novel at its heart. Only twisted as only Kris can do. And we have some really fun rewards and some great stretch goals and some really cool Diving products. And a couple of special three-week workshops that are really going to be fun. And some great writing classes as stretch goals. And like we always do, anyone backing any reward will get an electronic copy of the book, Ivory Trees. So don’t…
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Interesting Math
A Focus I Didn’t Mention Yesterday… I hinted at it. That $20,000 plus I have made for the short story “In the Shade of the Slowboat Man” was for licenses (to magazines, anthologies, collections, audio play, and Hollywood options) before indie publishing. Those licenses were over the space of 30 years. So the average is about $55 per month. Considering that a full decade went by and the story made nothing, just sat in a file drawer, not bad at all. So Looking at Indie Sales… I calculated my licensing fee yesterday in that total. Now, because I own the company publishing the story, I can calculate the sales income.…
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The Life and Times of a Copyright…
How One Short Story Made A Lot of Money… So many writers do not understand the value of a single piece of copyright. In this case, let me tell you the story of the life (so far) of a short story titled, “In the Shade of the Slowboat Man.” Back in the early 1990s, about thirty years ago, I was invited to write a story for a vampire anthology and like a fool I said yes. I hate vampires. So I put it off until a writing retreat on the Oregon Coast with eight other writers in one house for the weekend. I sat down at my then-massive computer sitting…
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September Workshops All Starting Up
All September Workshops Now Starting… Last month we brought back THE MAGIC BAKERY six week workshop. Critical to understanding how this new world and copyright is working for indie writers. And we brought back to regular status PLOTTING WITH DEPTH. It will also might have new videos as we think they are needed. And last month we started a brand new workshop in the depth series called DEPTH IN ACTION. Basically how do you use depth when writing action scenes, how much, how little, and when, to make sure readers know what is happening and stay with your story. Everything is on WMG Teachable. WARNING: You must have taken both…
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DIVING KICKSTARTER IS LIVE!!
Just Launched! IVORY TREES: A Diving Kickstarter Campaign by Kristine Kathryn Rusch just launched. IVORY TREES: A Diving Universe Novel is a stunning new novel in the Diving Universe. It is a heist novel at its heart. Only twisted as only Kris can do. And we have some really fun rewards and some great stretch goals and some really cool Diving products. And a couple of special three-week workshops that are really going to be fun. And some great writing classes as stretch goals. And like we always do, anyone backing any reward will get an electronic copy of the book, Ivory Trees. So don’t miss it. And with this…
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Diving Kickstarter…
Launches in a Few Hours at Noon West Coast Time… IVORY TREES: A Diving Kickstarter Campaign by Kristine Kathryn Rusch is launching on Tuesday, September 5th at noon. I will post here right after it launches… Promotions Page is here… IVORY TREES: A Diving Universe Novel is a stunning new novel in the Diving Universe. It is a heist novel at its heart. Only twisted as only Kris can do. And we have some really fun rewards and some great stretch goals and some really cool Diving products. And a couple of special three-week workshops that are really going to be fun. And like we always do, anyone backing any…
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New Diving Novel Kickstarter…
Launching Tuesday at Noon West Coast Time… IVORY TREES: A Diving Kickstarter Campaign by Kristine Kathryn Rusch is launching on Tuesday, September 5th at noon. (That’s tomorrow for those of you who have lost time over the holiday and end of summer.) Promotions Page is here… IVORY TREES: A Diving Universe Novel is a stunning new novel in the Diving Universe. It is a heist novel at its heart. Only twisted as only Kris can do. And we have some really fun rewards and some great stretch goals and some really cool Diving products. And a couple of special three-week workshops that are really going to be fun. The two…
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Reaction To Failure Post Brought Forward
Number of Requests for “Fail to Success”… So I brought this post which I think says it perfectly from 2018… No memory of the challenge I was talking about, or much else from 2018 since Kris was so sick and we moved to Vegas about that point. But somehow I managed this post, so hope it helps some… Maybe One of the Best Quotes from The Voice Ever… On Tuesday, while talking to and encouraging a young woman who didn’t get a chair to turn, Adam Levine said to her out of nowhere, and I quote, “It’s your reaction to your failures that make your success.” As many things on…
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New Diving Kickstarter
Launching Tuesday at Noon West Coast Time… The New Diving Novel by Kristine Kathryn Rusch is launching on Tuesday, September 5th at noon. Promotions Page is here… IVORY TREES: A Diving Universe Novel is a stunning new novel in the Diving Universe. And we have some really fun rewards and some great stretch goals and some really cool Diving products. And a couple of special workshops that are really cool as well. And like we always do, anyone backing any reward will get an electronic copy of the book. So don’t miss it. And this book you do not have to have read any other Diving novel to enjoy it.…