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There Will Be New Pictures
A Run At 8 am… Off for another 5k fun run in about seven hours, so this will be shorter than I had planned and I will get to the writing blog later. Need some sleep. But that means tomorrow Kris will have new pictures of our run on Facebook. Those are always fun. But before staggering off to get some sleep, I did want to say that the regular February Workshops are starting on Tuesday and Wednesday. Good list. Nine workshops. And soon I will have the workshops for April-July up. That will include some new workshops. And the next Futures Workshop called Structures will start in March. First…
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Series Workshops Are Done…
It’s Late, and Bowling in a Nerd Bar… Much harder than it should be. But great fun with a bunch of writers. Webinar for the last of the Study Along stuff tomorrow morning early. So for the second day in three, I’m going to turn this over to a cat picture. Back with writing stuff tomorrow. Cheeps… Our indoor feral…
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A Special Cat Picture
Because I Am Exhausted from CES… I finished up the series blog post on wanting to make stories special that is right ahead of this one. So thought before I staggered off to bed I would show you a picture of Gavin on his and Cheeps new cat tree. I was trying to finish up a few letters, but my eyes are blurring. So if I owe you a letter or response, tomorrow. No CES for me tomorrow. Night…
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A Great Christmas
Short Post Tonight With a Picture… The host is working on this site with a new security update, so no worries if you see it is not secure. Working on that tonight and tomorrow (26th). But in the meantime, here is a picture of Kris and I on our way out to Christmas dinner. And even with a fire-alarm in the middle that forced the evacuation of the entire Wyn Casino, it was a wonderful dinner. A lot of fun. Happy Holidays, everyone.
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Been Reading and Watching Movies
We Writers Consume Story Everywhere… I’ve been doing that over the last few weeks in a number of places. First off, I have been reading challenge short stories and novels. Almost all done and will be sending out comments soon. Some really wonderful novels and stories, I must admit, from those who took the challenge starting in September. I am enjoying the reading a great deal. (And I might do it again for January. Haven’t decided yet.) And I have, when time allows, been watching Hallmark Christmas movies. Not for the plots, of course, but for the structure and the characters and the relaxing aspect of them. In other words,…
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A Happy Holidays Gift From WMG Publishing
Actually, Two Gifts… WMG Publishing this year, for the very first time in the almost ten year history of the company, is doing two special holiday reading mystery boxes. Both have over $250 in value of books for $50.00. (Yup, I said that.) The Writer Gift Box has a lecture, a classic workshop, and 12 different writing books in it. All for $50.00 (just the lecture and the classic workshop are worth $200 alone. Person who gets the box gets to pick the choice of classic workshop or lecture.) The Holiday Gift Box includes 40 ebooks (novels, novellas, short-story collections, magazines, boxed sets, bundles, and a sampling of something from each…
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The Run Went Well Until It Didn’t
Best Start So Far… This was in the 5k the day before the Rock and Roll Marathon and Half Marathon. About 30,000 plus were running. Massive to say the least. Even with bad traffic, we got there in time and I stayed with Kris for the start. Then I went out ahead of her as I normally do. And for the first time I was feeling great. Didn’t need to walk at all. Until, that is, just beyond the 1.5 mile mark when I tripped on something and instantly hit the concrete very hard. Managed to fall correctly, so only jarred myself, knocked the wind out of me, and I…
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Running Fun?
Still Totally Exhausted… But Kris and I were signed up for this Halloween 5k run this morning, so even though I had no energy at all, I managed to crawl out of bed at 6 a.m. and be going through a starting gate at 8 a.m. On the other side of the valley. Great costumes. I was so slow, at one point I was passed by a very overweight man wearing an alligator suit with a long tail. He said in a very friendly manner as he went past, “Let’s go!” I would have kicked him in the tail, but I was too tired and he was too fast. But…
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While I Recover My Brain
Here is a Fun Video… Or a better way of putting it… Writer’s at Play… On the last night of the Master Business Class workshop, four instructors and three attending writers decided to go on the Fremont Street Zip Line in Las Vegas. Back at the party in the Golden Nugget Hotel the others kept up with our progress through texts I was sending back. And many came down to watch us fly over when the time came. I decided to get a helmet camera to film it all. Christina F. York, the science fiction and mystery writer was one of our instructors. She is in the middle with two…
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A Fun Interview
I Got Interviewed about Writing a Novel in Ten Days… That book is part of a great writing bundle at the moment, so Jamie Ferguson (who has a book in the bundle as well) interviewed me and it came out pretty nifty. Thanks, Jamie. She even put the covers of all twelve of my Thunder Mountain novels in there. I honestly, until that point, had never seen them all together or even realized there were twelve of them. I just write them, I don’t count them. (grin) But they look pretty darned cool. You can find the interview at: Posted by Blackbird Publishing on Thursday, October 11, 2018 Or if you are…