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Summary of New 2023 Workshops
Starting Off the New Year with Learning… Lots and lots of learning and really fun new classes. Since I announced them slowly over the last two weeks, figured it was time I put them all together. And also, we have a new web site at www.wmgworkshops.com where you can find direct links to all of these on Teachable, as well as all the rest of the workshops and classes and lectures. So here are the new classes and workshops starting in 2023. STARTING MONDAY MORNING… January 2nd, 2023 — The Decade Ahead. Every Monday morning get videos to help you learn how to keep your writing and writing business going…
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Questions on New Workshops
Got Some Questions… So figured I would answer them here. First off, the Collection Classes have all three years available. And you can get all six of all three years if you want. Each Collection Class is nine weeks long, you write five new short stories for it, and publish the book the last week. So the six 2021 Collection Classes are available for 2023. And the six 2022 Collection Classes are available in 2023 as well. That is also how the Advanced Craft Workshops will work. There are six of them for this year and if you got all six for the price of five, you could take a…
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Advanced Craft Workshops
Now Available!!! Remember last spring when I started posting about thinking of doing advanced craft workshops and somewhere along the way I asked opinions of what topics would be good ones? I got great responses. Well, off and on over the last six months, Kris and I have talked about what advanced craft workshops might even be doable. We figure a lot of this will just beyond most writers, but better to know it is there and grow into it. For those familiar with the term, this will all be Stage Four level stuff. So after a bunch of back and forth, we finally decided to try these, so here…
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One Last Week
Historically I Find This Week Productive… I hope you all do as well. If nothing else, set yourself up for the coming year. Look back at the past year, set some goals, streaks, or word counts for the coming year. 2022 was one of my worst writing years in my memory, in large part from not being able to write these last 2.5 months because of the eye injury. I’m going to set a daily goal, very small for me, to get back to it starting on the first. But no big challenges or goals for 2023 to start the year. I may change that in March or July 1st…
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Flash Sale for Decade Ahead and January Regular Workshops
30% OFF FOR THE NEXT THREE DAYS!! On the Decade Ahead classes and the January Regular Workshops. Decade Ahead class will work as a continuation of the Motivational Monday posts, only with a focus on what you can do to set yourself up to be ready for the full decade. New videos will be up every Monday morning. I just got the Decade Ahead classes ready to go for 2023 in the new weekly format. And I just got up all the January Regular Workshops. So figured for the next three days we could do a Flash Sale on those two. This 30% off applies to only the Decade Ahead…
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30% Off Sale Ends Tomorrow!
30% OFF SATURDAY AND SUNDAY!! On all Challenges and also all Collection Classes!! Since a few days ago I talked about how good doing a challenge would be for the coming year, we decided to give anyone signing up for a challenge 30% off. And since I just got all 24 Collection Classes now live on Teachable for the next year, we figured we would add all of them in as well to this quick flash sale. This 30% off applies to only the Challenges and the Collection Classes. And yes, it applies to the get a full year of Collection Classes Bundles. You can get the six from the…
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Four Different Challenges…
To Help You Get Through a Year of Writing… That’s right, you can see the four challenges on www.wmgworkshops.com. Just about any kind of challenge to fit what you are working on. The Great Challenge is to write a short story per week for 52 weeks. That really gets a person focused on the writing every week. And wow does it get your inventory up and stories in the mail to top magazines. The Great Novel Challenge is to write a novel every two months for a year. Six novels above 30,000 words. You have to turn in a novel every two months, and then on your own time send…
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Value of IP…
Most Writers Never Think of This… But again most writers don’t understand copyright, which is a form of Intellectual Property (IP). Now some writers understand that anything they write has value, although I must admit it takes early stage writers a period of time to get past their egos and their false assumptions that they know what is good or bad in their own work. Interestingly enough, value of IP doesn’t much care about quality, at least in the early stages. Also 90% of all writers I have talked to have zero understanding that the work product they create around a book or story also has IP connected with it…
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A Writing and Health Tip…
Drink a Beverage of Choice… As some of you know, and that I talked about a week or so ago because I am slow reading stories sent to me, I somehow got Optic Nuritis in my only good eye. Pretty much blind for a few days, most spent in doctors and emergency rooms. Since then I have very limited vision which they say should get better over the next month to six months. (No idea what caused it, no cure, and no I do not have MS. I am typing this with the letters blown up way, way large.) So as I learn to live with this, I am needing…
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Amazing Power
Why Streaks and Challenges? I get asked that question a lot. Why do I pay so much attention to streaks and challenges?? I once again proved to myself tonight with this blog why. Let me lightly paint the picture. 3 am. The air outside the floor-to-ceiling glass windows of our bedroom was a cold-for-Vegas 43 degrees. Lights and computers were off in my office and I had watched all of thirty minutes of television downstairs before nodding off. I was shivering and just about to climb into bed to pull up the two blankets and two quilts to my chin when Kris rolled over and muttered the question she asks…