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Night Before A Holiday…
I Hate This Holiday… People with little to no sense blowing stuff up to honor something that chances are a lot of them will vote to get rid of in November… So Vets, hang in there. Get friends around you if you can. Pet owners, make sure your animals are protected and safe. The stupidity of blowing stuff up will end with some people injured or killed, others with their homes burnt down, and animal shelters full. Sounds like a bad novel. Hang in there, everyone. The celebration with carnage will be over soon. On a much more fun topic…
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Thank You All…
For the Very Kind Thoughts and Well-Wishes… Very much appreciated. And as each day goes by I notice the shoulder less and less and do more and more. Every-so-often I move wrong or try a little too much and it reminds me. But otherwise no issues. I don’t even think I have taken Advil (my pain medication of choice) for a while now. Kris is thinking of doing one more month of writing challenge to really keep her going through all the business stuff. If tomorrow she is 100% certain I will put it up on Teachable and announce it here. Two days left in the May challenge. How is…
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An Update On My Injury…
Still in Physical Therapy… But nearing the end of the process. Most of you know here that around the end of October last year, I was running in a 5K charity run, far too fast for my 73 years (staying with the leaders), tripped on a curb I did not see and went down rolling on concrete. (Rolling to save hitting my head.) Destroyed my right shoulder. First broken bones I had ever had. Surgery four days later to put in Titanium shoulder and upper arm. First surgery I had ever had. Big brace and sitting up in a chair sleeping for over a month, then started PT around the…
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Questions or Topics?
A Lazy Saturday Night… Since I did not feel up to writing another chapter in the branding book as I had planned to do tonight, I thought I would open this up on this weekend night to questions you would like to have me answer or topics you would like to have me discuss or write a blog about. Email me or put them here as comments. If nothing because this is the time of great forgetting, I will just keep on entertaining myself with things that interest me in some fashion or another. Note: For anyone who missed getting a class or workshop they wanted, the code for the…
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Looking Back…
Doing a Lot of That This Year… Because of the fact that I sold my first two short stories 50 years ago and 40 years ago I was the first to walk across the Writers of the Future stage. Those kind of “zero” year dates will make anyone look around. And, of course, looking back over time can get you that wonderful 20/20 hindsight of seeing mistakes. I got two really good examples of that at the moment. The first one is looking back 50 years at the largest mistake I made in my writing and publishing career. The one mistake of instead of continuing to do what I had…
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Filler Post On This Friday…
Just to Keep the Streak Going… A lot of years of daily posts now. So tonight a picture of me and the boys taking a nap on a rainy evening in Las Vegas. They never cuddle with me like that, so I felt honored.
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Some General Updates…
Some Housekeeping… Special Workshops from Diving Kickstarter information will go out tomorrow afternoon. Information on how to get into them will be in the letter I will send you. Down in the Details Classes will start being recorded again later in the week. I will send a notice through Teachable when each class in each one is available. Hope to have all of them done by the first week of November. Reading for Pulphouse has been going on in the Holiday subject group from August. I am slow. Sorry. Bought a couple through, which is great fun. Reading for the last group of Pulphouse Special workshops will be done by…
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A Nothing Much Day…
Watched Far, Far Too Much Television… Only got about three miles of exercise. I managed to do some email, had a great lunch talking Kickstarters, and worked on recording some workshops. But just too much television. And for some reason, doing nothing is more tiring than doing a ton of things. So no blog of interest or length tonight, but certainly was an interesting day, to say the least.
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Got Up Very Early…
Halfway Through My Night, Actually… To go with Kris as she ran, biked, and swam in a Reverse Triathlon. She started off with a 5K run, then did 10K on a bike, and then 300 yards of swimming. I was her support staff, to hold her stuff, get her water and such and help her through the transitions. She completed it and did fantastic! She is flat amazing. Read her post on Facebook about how life conspired against her on the training and she still showed up and finished. I often get questions about what it takes to become a long-term, full-time fiction writer. My answer is never quit, and…
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Adding Fun and Games to Copyright Valuation…
The Music Industry Is Always Ahead of the Publishing Industry… Often by about a decade. That seems to be the fact in the case of valuation of copyright. I assume that everyone has heard of major song writers and artists selling entire catalogs. Justin Bieber just did it, lots of older artists have done it for tons of money. Each deal is different and interesting. But they all had one thing in common. There was a valuation of the catalog of songs and such owned by the artist. So thanks to a New York Law Journal article, some of the methods used to value an artist’s music catalog are discussed.…