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Yeah!!! All November Workshops On Teachable
All Letters Sent to Those Signed up… If you are signed up and didn’t get a letter, write me. There is now two ways to sign up for any regular workshop. First… You can do the normal way and sign up by contacting me directly. Pay through Paypal or by check. I will put you on the list for the workshop and then send you a code a few days ahead of the start date to allow you into the workshop. Second Way… Just go directly to Teachable and sign up there and pay there. They take Paypal and credit cards. All the available lectures, all but two of the…
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Workshop Letters Late Tomorrow Night
Normally The Letters Are Sent By Now… I almost have all the November workshops moved to Teachable, but with the auction tonight, it got late and I am not able to send out the letters as I had hoped. Plus I would like to give the Kickstarter folks a chance to sign up still for November workshops. So with luck, late tomorrow night, after I get back from a day off and a movie, I will send out the letters to everyone in the November workshops with the new details and code to get into the workshops. A Good Picking Night At the auction I bought three things tonight. First…
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Kickstarter Backer Surveys Are Starting
Everyone Should Have a Survey By Wednesday… I did send out the surveys for the workshops and lectures tonight. If you would like to take a November workshop, contact me directly. I have all the bones built on Teachable for the November online workshops (list below). I was in the WMG offices until almost one in the morning. If I do the same tomorrow I should have them ready to go. It’s going to be interesting since there will be no passwords each week. The new week will just appear when the time has come for those in the workshop. And you will be able to keep the workshop on…
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Madly Working On Moving Workshops
November Workshops Should Have a New Home… I should, if I work late into the night, get the regular November online workshops moved over to Teachable.com in time to send out the first letters by Sunday. But it will be a push. Worth it when finished. As for the Kickstarter Credits, if you would like to take a November workshop, write me directly and let me know which one you would like to sign up for. You get a classic workshop credit with that as well, but you can sign up for it at any time if you want. We still have a few days waiting for Kickstarter to set…
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False Start on Challenge
Strangest Almost-Start I Have Ever Experienced… I was all set to fire up on the short story challenge for November. No issues at all. And then nope. Just nope. I was even planning on starting early because it had been a while, so got to my writing computer at 10 p.m. Nope. Not blocked. Just nope, it didn’t feel right. Something was off. So I went to do my normal solution to figuring out stuff I can’t put my finger on… a nap. And when I woke up I realized my focus was on the 67 published books in my 67th year. And my 67th birthday isn’t for another week…
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Workshops Might Be Moving to Teachable
I Think I Figured It Out… I needed a second person to look at the Teachable stuff, so Josh (my managing editor of Pulphouse) and I dug into the instructions and with some side-tracks, I think we figured out how the regular monthly workshops, the ones listed below, will work there. And I think I can make the switch with the November workshops. Once the switch is done, we can get away from all the password silliness and you can keep going back to the workshops for as long as you want. That is the plan anyway. So here we go. If the switch isn’t going to work quickly, then…
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Catching Up And Pulphouse Fun
Totally Normal After a Long Workshop… The day was full of a ton of different things, from unloading the van full of stuff from the workshop to checking in with all three stores to working on workshops. All regular stuff after a long week of a major coast workshop. But also tonight, after being caught up, I got to play with putting Pulphouse Fiction Magazine Issue Zero together. Wonderful fun. All of the stories in Issue Zero will be only reprints, so I am have had the pleasure of reading great stories I either haven’t read before, or ones I remember fondly from twenty-some years before. And the writers with…
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Some Clutter Gone
A Writer Website… Since I have a massive writing and publishing challenge starting first at the start of November and then the major part in the middle of November, I thought I would begin cleaning up this website some to get ready. — Workshop information links are now on the widget to the right. — List of November and December workshops are to the right and down as well. The sticky post about the month’s workshop is gone. — I removed the workshop links from the top menu. — I removed the building Smith’s Monthly widget from the side as well. — I will no longer combine daily stuff and…
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Workshop is Over
This Site Very Slow… So I am tired and the site is slow, so just going to say before this crashes that things here will be back to normal tomorrow (Sunday night) and you will start seeing some changes here as I try to clean up some of the clutter here. And the questions will be going out to the kickstarter backers for Pulphouse on Monday and Tuesday. But for now, I had a wonderful week of learning and talking to great writers. And now I need sleep and to not get up so darned early.
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Feel the Fear Pictures
Great Fun At The End of the Night… After the session tonight at the Master Business Class, we called for pictures of the authors in Fiction River: Feel the Fear and also the authors in the Fear bundle on Storybundle.com which has Feel the Fear volume in it. It was a calm picture, but then the fear took over… In the picture back row from left to right is Lauryn Christopher, J.F. Penn, me, Mark Leslie Lefebvre, Eric Edstrom, T. Thorn Coyle, Dayle A. Dermatis, David Stier, Michael Kowal, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Allyson Longueira, Michael Lucas. One very tired bunch of professional writers. (grin)