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Intellectual Property Valuation Basics
Some Basics Before Moving On… The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) has laid out some basics when it comes to putting a value on IP. So I am just going to quote a few of those from their web site here for the purpose of education. First off, an IP must have exclusivity. WIPO says: “The value of an IP asset essentially comes from the right the owner of that asset has to exclude competitors from using it. For an IP asset to have a quantifiable value it should: generate a measurable amount of economic benefits to its owner/user; and enhance the value of other assets with which it is…
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Last Day of Sale on Challenges and Collection Classes
Ends Sunday Night Late… 30 % Off!!! On all Challenges and also all Collection Classes!! There are four different challenges you can sign up for and start when you want. And all 24 Collection Classes are now live on Teachable for the next year. Best way to look around at all the classes and workshops now is on www.wmgworkshops.com They are all there under different tabs with direct links to the class on Teachable. So much easier and clearer than searching Teachable. This 30% off applies to only the Challenges and the Collection Classes. And yes, it applies to the get a full year of Collection Classes Bundles. You can…
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30% Off Sale Ends Tomorrow!
30% OFF SATURDAY AND SUNDAY!! On all Challenges and also all Collection Classes!! Since a few days ago I talked about how good doing a challenge would be for the coming year, we decided to give anyone signing up for a challenge 30% off. And since I just got all 24 Collection Classes now live on Teachable for the next year, we figured we would add all of them in as well to this quick flash sale. This 30% off applies to only the Challenges and the Collection Classes. And yes, it applies to the get a full year of Collection Classes Bundles. You can get the six from the…
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Four Different Challenges…
To Help You Get Through a Year of Writing… That’s right, you can see the four challenges on www.wmgworkshops.com. Just about any kind of challenge to fit what you are working on. The Great Challenge is to write a short story per week for 52 weeks. That really gets a person focused on the writing every week. And wow does it get your inventory up and stories in the mail to top magazines. The Great Novel Challenge is to write a novel every two months for a year. Six novels above 30,000 words. You have to turn in a novel every two months, and then on your own time send…
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Value of IP…
Most Writers Never Think of This… But again most writers don’t understand copyright, which is a form of Intellectual Property (IP). Now some writers understand that anything they write has value, although I must admit it takes early stage writers a period of time to get past their egos and their false assumptions that they know what is good or bad in their own work. Interestingly enough, value of IP doesn’t much care about quality, at least in the early stages. Also 90% of all writers I have talked to have zero understanding that the work product they create around a book or story also has IP connected with it…
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Flash Sale for Challenges and Collections Workshops
30% OFF FOR THE NEXT FIVE DAYS!! On all Challenges and also all Collection Classes!! Since two days ago I talked about how good doing a challenge would be for the coming year, we decided to give anyone signing up for a challenge in the next five days 30% off. And since I just got all 24 Collection Classes now live on Teachable for the next year, we figured we would add all of them in as well to this quick flash sale. This 30% off applies to only the Challenges and the Collection Classes. And yes, it applies to the get a full year of Collection Classes Bundles. You…
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Challenges for the New Year
We Have Four of Them To Help You… If you are looking around and trying to set some goals for the coming writing year, consider taking a challenge from WMG workshops. There are four of them on Teachable. THE GREAT CHALLENGE is to write and send me a short story every week for 52 weeks. NOVELLA CHALLENGE is to write and send me a novella every month for 12 months. NOVEL CHALLENGE is to write and send me a novel every two months, and then publish the book in a paperback and send that to me at some point down the road. PUBLISHING CHALLENGE is to publish one new major…
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Fun Run… Fun Pictures
Uphill, Both Ways… Well, it felt that way to a guy still overweight. Granted I have lost four pounds in the last few weeks, but not enough to run too much uphill on bad knees. I ran the first seven tenths of a mile to start, which turns out was slightly downhill. Feeling great. Walked a short hill, then turned a corner and all I could see into the distance was uphill. Well over a. mill uphill. So I walked it. Ran small downhill sections, but walked all the hills, far more walking than I had planned, and missed the podium by one spot. Got 4th in my age group…
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December Regular Workshops
All Started!! Everything is still in the first week of all six of them, so lots of time to jump in. They are all six weeks long with assignments from me. If you have not taken a craft class yet, start with Depth in Writing. Class #54… Dec 6th … Writing into the Dark Class #55… Dec 6th … Teams in Fiction Class #56… Dec 7th … Depth in Writing Class #58…Dec 7th … Applied Depth Class #59… Dec 7th … Advanced Depth Class #60… Dec 7th … Killing Critical Voice Just go to www.wmgworkshops.com and click the tab Study with Dean. That is the new WMGWorkshops.com web site where links…
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Remember the Time Travel Bundle of Books
Reposting This… At www.storybundle.com/timetravel Here is the introduction blog I did for the bundle. I posted this a week or so ago, but got a hunch a bunch of sf readers missed it. This is a stunning group of writers and a lot of time travel stories. You don’t want to miss this one. Plus I have a Thunder Mountain novel in this one, Kris has a Diving novel, and we put in one of the big collections of 20 stories we did a few years back. So here is the intro blog I did for the start of the bundle… TIME TRAVEL FUN… Time travel fits in any genre…