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I Seem To Have Fallen Off
Heinlein’s Rule #4… As I am moving into my new office here in Las Vegas, I am organizing as well, as would be normal. Making lists of things to do, where I need to be caught up and where it can wait a week or so to get solidly in place again. And as I am sorting papers and other stuff I am finding things I had forgotten about. And in the papers I am uncovering unpublished short stories. And not just a few short stories. Nope. A ton of short fiction, meaning a very large stack. In fact, I have found more short stories unpublished from this year than…
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July Through October Workshop Schedule Posted
And Yes, Two New Workshops Are There… Both Information Flow and The Magic Bakery workshops are starting in July. Lifetime subscribers, the workshops are already in your subscription and no need to sign up. You can take it in July as it unfolds per week, or do it at any time after July when you want. Everyone else, to sign up for any workshop, just go to Teachable. Or if you have a credit you want to use, write me and I’ll give you a code to get in. Full list of workshops from July through October is now posted. With a couple spots left open for new workshops later in…
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We’re Lucky In Practice
Writers Are Very Lucky… We can practice and get paid for it many times. I realized that once again as I was driving back from a poker practice session at a local casino. I went to the $45 buy-in tournament early in the week to practice some on basics and give myself a must needed mental break from the move. It has been some time since I have played any serious poker and I know I need to get back tuned up. (Writers never forget how to write.) But poker at the level I play is a sport and it takes bringing back skill levels to sharpness when away for…
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That Was Very Interesting…
THANK YOU!… Everyone, for the feedback, both in the comments and in letters. Both Kris and I were surprised, to be honest. The desire for a depth-like workshop talking about information flow was across the board. And even the Magic Bakery had a lot of people wanting to take it. Plus we got a bunch of other ideas for workshops. Some were on our lists like a Romance online workshop (very different from the intense craft Romance workshop Kris will do in Vegas next year). But one idea hadn’t occurred to us and that was a workshop about how to use tags. Tags are one of the most powerful tools…
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Two Possible New Workshops
Scheduling and Trying to Decide… Working on the next four months of regular workshop schedules and I have sort of settled on two new workshops I would love to put together with Kris. So feedback is welcome. And yes, lifetime subscribers you will get any new workshop we do automatically. So first off, I like the idea of doing a Magic Bakery Workshop. Six weeks covering all kinds of details about how writers make a living and run a business with the focus on copyright and IP valuation. Now we did two advanced lectures on those two topics, but this would be so, so much more detailed and into the…
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Controlled By Fear
Needing an Agent is an Irrational Fear… I said that in a webinar today and got a couple comments later from writers who had heard it. And it dawned on me that even though needing an agent is based completely in irrational fears, most writers don’t understand that. Even though it is obvious to me. So here I am again, trying to talk logic at a myth once again. Almost always a failure, but I keep trying. And Kris and I talking about agents sure stirs up the trolls out there. Wow, you would think it was us that just recently stole the 3.4 million from writers instead of agents.…
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Webinars Sunday for The Indie Game and Fear Workshops
They Will Both Be Fun… The Insider’s Guide workshops The Indie Game and Fear in Writing will be great fun tomorrow (Sunday) for an hour-plus each in webinar format. Both of these could have some amazing discussions and questions as the weeks go by. Lifetime subscribers stop by even if you didn’t turn in an assignment. The link is at the bottom of the first week’s assignments in both workshops. The Game webinar will be at 11 a.m. West Coast Time US and the Fear webinar will be at 1 p.m. West Coast US. We did both workshops originally as the weekend workshops. We are not changing out the videos…
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Back On The Oregon Coast
Arrived at 1:30 a.m…. So if you sent me an email in the last half of Thursday, I will get to it on Friday afternoon. Too tired tonight to trust myself answering emails. But back to normal tomorrow afternoon. I will also have the hotel codes to send out this weekend for the Master Business Workshop and Anthology Workshop. And also the webinar links for the Game and Fear workshop webinars this Sunday. They will be on the assignment video for the first week after tomorrow evening. So now to get some sleep. And if not for the blog challenge, I would have skipped this blog. The power of a…
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Forgotten Writers
Amazing How Many There Are… Today Kris and I spent almost the entire day putting books on shelves in our offices and in other areas of our new condo. And we both kept noticing how many writer’s books we had from writers no longer working in fiction. Now, there are a ton of reasons for a writer to vanish. Death, of course, sickness, family, and so on. Most of those you hear about in one form or another at one point or another. Especially if you are a fan of the writer. But so many of the writers had just vanished. This business does that to writers. Talked last week…
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Building a New Writing Office
Interesting Focus… I feel that a writing office has to be comfortable and I like to surround myself with books and other nifty stuff, including a white board. But this is the first time in almost two decades I have built a new writing place. So that is forcing me to stop and think some about this task. Now, I understand, I can write anywhere. Especially in this city. And I most likely will. But I want that anchor point, the place to go back to. I need a place to focus my writing. I can do sessions or entire short stories anywhere, even novels in hotel rooms. But I…