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Trademark for Fiction Writers… Chapter Three
CHAPTER THREE… (Please read the introduction and first and second chapter to this book before reading this. You can find them at… Introduction and First Chapter and Second Chapter.) And you need to buy the book Trademark: Legal Care for Your Business and Product Name by Stephen Fishman. For a quick moment here in this third chapter, I want to relay ways to think about trademarks, and the level of value a mark has in use. (In Chapter Nine of Fishman’s Trademark book he goes into more depth on these in similar, but slightly different ways. Worth the read.) Basically there are five ways to look at trademarks and evaluate their…
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The Myth of Talent
Maybe One of the Most Deadly of All Myths… Talent is a measure of skill at a certain moment in time. So many writers use talent as an excuse to not do something. That excuse comes in a ton of different forms. “I already know that, so I don’t have to learn more.” “I’m not talented at doing (blank), so not going to try that.” “Dean and Kris can do this, but I can’t.” And on and on and on. Basically this talent myth grows out of fear, out of laziness, out of a person’s past. Using the talent myth in either direction will stop you, hold you back, and…
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Holiday Pop-Up Special!!!
Write New Stories for Each Pop-Up… There are fourteen Pop-Ups in the series now. List is below. And for a short week or so with each one when it first appeared, anyone who signed up got a chance to write a story from a prompt and send it to me. But once that week was past, the opportunity to write passed. Videos are all still there to learn from, of course. (About 12-15 videos per Pop-Up on each subject.) Right now, #14 How to Make a Living Writing Short Fiction has a story prompt with it that is due in just under two weeks. And you can sign up for…
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Short Story Pop-Up
Pop-Up #14 Will Be Up Tomorrow… HOW TO MAKE A LIVING WRITING SHORT FICTION Yup, I went and did it. I’ve done numbers of blogs on this topic, so figured it was time to add more to it and put it all in video form. And, of course, a short story assignment is included and is something special. I will have the Pop-Up available and in the bundles tomorrow evening (Tuesday), but since I just had fun recording it, thought I would mention it here. — Also going to be doing more videos in the Licensing Transition tomorrow or Wednesday, so might want to jump in on that if you…
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Just Hit 100 Backers!
Wow, just Wow!… Thank you everyone, for the support so far on this on Kickstarter. It has been fantastic and now, hitting 100 backers is so very cool! Not only are we a “Project We Love” with Kickstarter, but that backer number helps us get found in the Kickstarter world as well. So thank you, everyone, for the quick and wonderful support. And we have some great stretch goals on the horizon as well, including one we won’t announce until we make the next one. The Zip Line stretch goal. So check it out here and remember, with the add-ons, you can combine awards very simply if you want more…
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A Fun Book and More Videos
Pulphouse Kickstarter Hit Second Stretch Goal… That’s right, in just three days. Wow! So everyone who supports the campaign gets a free electronic book. A brand new one that will be out in the summer next year. It’s called Aliens Among Us: At Least In the Pages of Pulphouse Fiction Magazine. And going forward, if we hit more stretch rewards, there are more fun books and workshops and lectures for writers. Check it out at NEW VIDEOS Also, I added five new videos into the Licensing Transition, talking about aspects of how to make certain decisions when it comes to licensing your work. A lot of videos so far in…
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Playing With Covers
For Make 100 Paperbacks And learning the new Indesign. Finally getting past the frustration stage of learning and into the “this is cool” stage. Thought I would show you one of the covers. I am starting from the very first story in Smith’s Monthly #1 (and yes, I will be redoing all the Smith’s Monthly issues as well in this crazy clean-up.) And I will be doing a lot of new and unpublished stories as well. On my wonderful spread sheet, I discovered that only four of the 37 stories in the first nine issues of Smith’s Monthly have been put out stand-alone and of those, only one was already…
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Friday Night and I’m Reading Stories
Nope. Not For Pulphouse Fiction Magazine… I am reading for the Great Challenge. I got behind the last three weeks in reading, so promised myself that among other things this weekend, I would get the pleasure of reading a bunch of short stories. That’s what I am doing tonight. And very excited about the Pulphouse Kickstarter and how well it has done in the first two days. Exciting and gratifying for me and all the great authors who had stories in the first eight issues. Between reading, frighteningly enough, I have been working on a spread sheet for a past Kickstarter. The Make 100 Paperbacks. Finally firing on those and…
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Pulphouse Subscription Drive Kickstarter
Yes, It Has Been Two Years… We have just launched the and wow does it have some nifty things for rewards, and add-ons, and stretch rewards. S There is a brand new workshop only included for those supporting the subscription drive. It is a three week workshop, with three assignments, the last being to write a story. The workshop is called “How to Write a Pulphouse Story” It will run both the first three weeks of October and the first three weeks of November. It will not run again, or at least not until two years from now with the next subscription drive. Only available on this Kickstarter. Plus you…
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The Myth Lecture Bundles
First Bundle of Five Lectures Done… It is five of the myths that swirl around creation of words. And this week I will be finishing up the last three lectures in the Roadblocks bundle. I want to do the last two bundles (10 lectures on myths) but not one person has bought a bundle, not one. Lifetime subscribers to the lectures get them, so I will finish the last two bundles for them. And that is the best way to buy these, as I have said. So still going forward with them, clearly mostly just for my own entertainment. (grin) And in the Licensing Transition, Kris and I have a…