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Just Three Days Left
On Year of the Cat Kickstarter… And we are gaining on the third stretch goal, which will have a free lecture included, and I think there is time we could hit the next stretch goal as well with a free Classic Workshop. But we need help. Pass the word, grab a discounted workshop, don’t forget the Kickstarter only How to Write a Cat Story Workshop, or the nifty study of all 100 stories over a year class. You can get books, subscriptions to magazines, lectures, all kinds of discounted stuff and help us get this crazy and really fun project off the ground. We have already hit two stretch goals…
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March Workshops Available
They Are Now Up and Live… Including the new workshop, Licensing 101. It has also been loaded into the Lifetime Workshop Subscription and also into the Licensing Transition workshop. That’s right, inside the $500 year-long workshop you get a $300 workshop as well. Cool, huh? You can sign up for them on Teachable. Class #21… Mar 3rd … Writing RomanceClass #22… March 3rd… LICENSING 101Class #24… March 3rd … Writing into the DarkClass #25… March 3rd … Writing Sales CopyClass #26… March 4th … Depth in WritingClass #27… March 4th … Writing Short StoriesClass #29… March 4th… Writing with EmotionClass #30… March 4th… Advanced Depth Also, see yesterday’s post for…
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Collaboration Special Class
You Want To Collaborate With Me?… I get questions all the times about what is needed to collaborate with another writer on a story. And how to do it. There are as many ways to collaborate on a story as there are writers, but the methods tend to break down into four major ways and working methods. And I have used all four of the major methods in the almost 100 collaborations I have done over the decades. And so has Kris, and for the first time, we’re going to detail out those methods in this four week special workshop. And in this workshop we will give the first fifteen writers to sign up (and…
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Last Week of Mentorship…
After That I Will Not Offer It Again… I figured last fall I could take two more writers to work with, and that still stands. But I am going to cut off that offer after the Year of the Cat Kickstarter is finished. (Update: Only one left.) I am basically a cheerleader, a person to run ideas by, a person who will help you stay on track with your goals as the years go by. And I won’t go away after one year. You can sign up through the Kickstarter, or if you want to just go direct with either Paypal or credit card to WMG Publishing, just contact me.…
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Year of the Cat Covers
Wow, Are These Cool!!! I wanted to show you these twelve covers. And we are headed toward the second stretch goal with just over a week left on the Year of the Cat Kickstarter campaign. (Thank you, everyone!!) Now, please help pass the word so we can get up to those stretch goals with lectures and workshops involved. And get these twelve anthologies, one per month. And also, on Teachable, every month, I will be doing a Year of the Cat Class for a full year, talking about each story in each anthology and why that story worked and the writing techniques the writer used to make it work. A…
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Anthology Workshop
Decision Time for 2021… A week from Friday the 2020 Anthology workshop will be starting here in Las Vegas. The writers have been writing since the last week of November and now all of us are reading like crazy. The writers wrote for seven paying anthologies and one brand new major magazine. Plus I am always looking to buy for Pulphouse Fiction Magazine during this anthology workshop. But this workshop loses WMG money and we have been talking about cancelling the Anthology workshop for next year (2021), first to save the money and second to allow Fiction River to get caught up. Actually, this year there is only one Fiction…
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Workshop Updates and Running
Saturday Night Quick Updates… — New video on the Publishing Challenge and new video on the Novel Challenge are both up. Story prompt for the Great Challenge for short stories will be Sunday evening late, as normal. You can sign up for the challenges, even though you don’t intend to start just yet, or aren’t sure when you are starting. Starting any of the challenges is your choice as to when. — Last few days to sign up for the February regular workshops. March workshops will take their place in a day or so. — Licensing Transition Class has five February videos up, more soon. — Decade Ahead Class has…
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Almost To First Stretch Goal
Just Over a Week In… And we are only $400 from the first stretch goal on the Year of the Cat Kickstarter campaign. Thank you, everyone!! Now, please help pass the word so we can get up to those stretch goals with lectures and workshops involved. Not even half way through the time yet, so more than enough time to make it. Thanks again, everyone. Link to Year of the Cat Kickstarter.
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Keeping Track
A Fun System… I heard of this idea from someone, but sadly I can’t remember who, but thank you. A fun idea that harks back to the old childhood days. And I have never tried it before, and considering how many systems and goofy things I have tried, that’s surprising. I have a hanging calendar on my wall now, as of tonight, right behind my business computer and right under a fortune cookie saying that is taped there. And thanks to Office Depot this afternoon, I have about 800 gold stars and about 200 larger colored smiling faces. So the system is simple. For every 1,000 new words, I put…
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Got a Couple Letters
About the New Pop-Up… Called “Nothing’s Good Enough.” Basically, this is about how critical voice creeps in when you least expect it. And ways to identify what is happening and stop it, get back to having fun. We put it as the first Pop-Up in the Decades Ahead Class as well as a regular Pop-Up you can buy directly. Why in the Decades Ahead Class in February? Because right about now is when this evil little part of critical voice starts showing its head and mucking around with your New Year’s resolution. One of the questions from someone who hasn’t taken the Pop-Up was if it would help the critical…