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Information Overload
Information Overload Spent most of the day just sleeping, resting, doing very little. As I thought of things, I wrote them down. But mostly the brain just sort of shut down from a very intense week of learning and fun. The form of these posts and this site will change very, very shortly. Got a huge list of things I want to do here and with my writing. So stay tuned. This will be one of the last combined posts. Going to clear the clutter. (grin) ——– Kickstarter Update Got more of the surveys out, including all the workshop surveys out. So we are about halfway through the surveys now…
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Business Master Class Finishing Up
Business Master Class Finishing Up Here on the coast we are just tomorrow finishing up the really fun business master class. Forty professional fiction writers, all in one meeting room, talking nothing but business morning, afternoon, and night, and into the night, actually. Great fun. Exhausted but I have a long list of things I want to do. So tomorrow night it will be done and things will be back to normal here on Sunday. And I will start making some of the changes to this site at that point. ——– Kickstarter Update: We have finally figured out a few tricks on the surveys we send out to supporters to give…
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Dictation in Fiction
Dictation in Fiction As I continue with the format for a few more days, I wanted to give out a link that might help a few of you. I get a lot of questions about dictating fiction and how it works and can it be done. I always say that I know a bunch of people who do it, but know little about the skill. But my friend Kevin J. Anderson works that way and another friend of mine, Dan Sawyer, interviewed Kevin on this exact topic. So if you are interested, take a listen. Pretty clear and to the point. http://nanowrimoeverymonth.com/2016/06/03/questions-103-dictation-with-kevin-j-anderson/ ——– Kickstarter Update: We have finally figured out…
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Even More Help Today
Even More Help Today on the Changes Coming Here Wonderful help and advice today from a number of people about how to make this site less of a confused mess and get things looking cleaner and clearer. This process has been sort of going forward now for some time, but these last few days finally tipped me over to make the changes I’ve been planning for more than a year. I will still continue blogging about writing and some other topics. And workshop news will still be here. And my books will be here as well, but easier to find. So not much time tonight to do a longer blog…
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Getting the New Look of This Site Together
New Look Coming Not much tonight other than I have been really getting some great help and some good discussion over the last few days about this site. And ways to clear the clutter and get it better focused and functioning. So not only will I be hitting the writing hard starting next week, but will be making changes here. And doing more writing blogs because I’m learning a lot this week. So nothing tonight. Too late and I have to be up too early to say anything sane. (grin) But fun stuff getting planned. ———————- November Online Workshops Click the workshop tab above for description and sign-up or go…
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An Interview With Kevin J. Anderson
An Interview with Kevin J. Anderson Joanna Penn, who is one of the nicest people I have met and one of the smarter people about publishing (and who happens to be here on the coast at the moment) did a wonderful interview with my friend, Kevin J. Anderson. She gets Kevin talking about his writing, his thinking about the new world, and his process of how he writes. A great interview, as is normal with Joanna. They also talk about the bundle I am in below. Joanna has a book in the bundle, as does Kevin. But mostly they talk about writing in general and the new world of publishing.…
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Trust the Reader
Trust the Reader I have a hunch that the phrase “trust the reader” is going to come out of my mouth a lot this week. Just guessing. What exactly does that mean in general? Basically, it means to let the readers decide if something you wrote works or not. How do they decide? They spend money on it. If it doesn’t work, they won’t buy it. Trust the reader. Sounds so simple, but for most writers, almost impossible, if not flat impossible. Writers have this ego thing that makes them think they are the best judges of their own work. And, of course, no story is ever perfect, so writers…
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Workshop type of day
Workshop type of day Short post tonight. Been working on different things with workshops all day. Kind of surprised that so very few are signed up yet for the November online workshops. Too many things going on in the world I suppose. My focus has been taken for a short time for a personal reason, but it is interesting how I am noticing almost across the board that other writers’ focuses are off as well. In one week I will be back at full speed on the writing, but I have no explanation for why it seems across the board (workshops are only a minor sign) that this October is…
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Fun Day
Fun Day Worked on first the master class, then recorded another week of the POV workshop, then home to cook dinner, take a nap, and work more on the master class stuff. Great fun. This workshop is going to be a real challenge and the POV workshop is already a real challenge to try to present such a vast area of information and techniques and have it make sense. So I am challenged and when I am challenged, I have fun. The Point of View workshop is also offered in November, but trust me, you don’t want to even try it without the depth workshop first. — This is a…
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After 6 a.m.
AFTER 6 A.M. And the lights are flickering from the wind. So I am cheating tonight… just leaving up the bundle information and posting this before the power goes out. — This is a bundle you don’t want to miss. And in the process of reading all the wonderful novels in the bundle, I hope you enjoy both the wonderful stories in Fiction River: Pulse Pounders and my very strange but fun golf thriller, An Easy Shot. http://storybundle.com/thriller ——————— November Online Workshops Click the workshop tab above for description and sign-up or go to www.wmgpublishingworkshops.com. Questions about any of the workshops, feel free to write me. Almost no one is signed up…