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The Decade Ahead: Second Quarter
Finally Some Posts In April… It took clear to the end of April before I could figure out how to approach this quarter. I want this Decade Ahead class to help writers for years to come on their Teachable dashboards. Help them get through regular times, regular years for the next decade. But at the same time, it is impossible to talk about how to get through April and May and June in this second quarter of 2020 without dealing with this pandemic. So I decided to do both. I am doing a series of videos that will be valuable in general and next April/May/June. Dealing with the Time of…
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Card Sharp Silver
Not Counting This As a Day of Writing… But I did work on Card Sharp Silver: A Cave Creek Novel, but just didn’t make enough forward progress to count it, either in time or words. But I did get back on it and cycled back to get it in my head again, got to where I had left off and went, “Damn, this is fun.” No clue where I am going from there, but I typed some and got moving forward again. Felt great! Not really stuck, it has just been a week or so to believe with all the business work. I have about five stories left to get…
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What Might Happen
I Have Been Waiting to Do Some Videos… The Decade Ahead class (second quarter) started April 1st. I have not put a video in it yet. That class was supposed to be how to help writers get through each month and each quarter to set up for the decade ahead. So I have been thinking about doing some videos in that class on what should have been some of the troubles of April for writers. And what might be again the troubles next April. You know, sort of pretend things will go back to normal next year. Very questionable. And I have also been thinking about doing videos on how…
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One of These Days
I’ll Get Back At Card Sharp Silver… I think I might have been a little unrealistic, or as Kris calls it, “ambitious” to think I could spend any real time writing while this short story workshop is going on. I do that at times. So here it is again, 2 am and I am finally done with about 3/4 of the things I needed to do today, not counting wanting to get to writing. But I do see a light at the end of this. Put it this way, I was so darned busy the last week or so, I haven’t had a chance to finish reading Kris’s new Diving…
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Back to Work… Not Writing, But Work.
A Very Busy Day… Most of you don’t know that we have a short story workshop happening right at this moment. It was originally supposed to be here, in Vegas, but we saw the writing on the wall almost two months ago and postponed it to a later date, but kept the study along part of it going, since that is all online. And Kris is working some, as much as possible in the format, with those who would have attended in person. So I have been recording lectures, reading stories, and doing a ton of other stuff today. Going on for two more days. Actually great fun and I…
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Almost Hitting A Second Stretch Goal
The Writing Bundle Kickstarter Campaign… It’s doing really well and has got a lot of great deals for writers. Usually we balance out campaigns with a focus on a fiction project with some workshop deals. But this one is all focused on helping writers learn writing. Five Writing Bundle Books are the core. Take a look. But we are about to hit our second stretch goal and we have come up with some really amazing stretch rewards. Worth a lot, actually. So here they are… Stretch Goal #1…$3,000 We have hit this one and everyone supporting the project gets an electronic copy of THE FREELANCER’S SURVIVAL GUIDE by Kristine Kathryn…
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A Day To Rest
Well, Sort Of… I got thinking back to the last time I took a day off and neither Kris nor I could remember. Maybe a year? Maybe longer. And realize I don’t mean working five days a week. I go at this stuff from right after I get up to early hours of the next morning. Seven days a week. I haven’t even played a hand of tournament poker in over a year. Seen a few movies, ran in a few runs, but then I would go right back to work. And I am not calling my fiction writing work. That is actually the fun time of the day, but…
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Creative Nonfiction
Doing a Class On Writing Creative Nonfiction… It’s one of the special classes we do that you can only get through the Writing Bundles Kickstarter Campaign. It will never be available in the future anywhere outside of a Kickstarter campaign. Now, considering how much Kris and I write creative nonfiction, I am surprised we never thought of teaching a class on it before. In fact, some of my writing books that are in the Kickstarter Bundles are written in a form of creative nonfiction style. The clearest of that certain style is the Writing a Novel in Five Days While Traveling. But I also wrote an entire book about the…
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Card Sharp Silver… Day 17
Not Sure Why I Count Days Like Today. A thousand words in 45 minutes out of an entire day should not name the day. But, alas, that is how this daily blog-report started, so onward I go. Normal time to the computer here at 11 am. Worked on emails for about an hour, then switched over to working on the Kickstarter campaign we are launching later this week. I did that until lunch at 2 pm, then Kris and I sat in our alcove looking out over the empty city and eating and working on the Cats Anthologies, getting the first few ready to go to WMG. (Remember there will…
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Card Sharp Silver… Day 16
I Hate Restarting… Five days or so since I wrote anything on this novel, and that makes it kind of rough to get restarted. Annoying is a better term. The day started off as I did a few emails, then around 12:30 headed out into the wilds of empty Las Vegas. A stop at a vegan bakery for deserts for Kris, then a stop at Cinnaholic, another vegan deserts place with cinnamon rolls to die for. Then off to the grocery store. Made it back and got decontaminated by 3:30 pm. A nap, then more email, then a walk with Kris, then dinner and a television show. Back in here…