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Trademark for Fiction Writers… Chapter Two
CHAPTER TWO… (Please read the introduction and first chapter to this book before reading this. You can find that at… Introduction and First Chapter.) If, after the introduction and first chapter, you are starting to question why you would ever need to do a trademark for anything in your fiction, let me simply say…”Good.” As I learned more and more about trademark, I started to understand that this area of the law is very similar to all the myths pushed by traditional book publishers. In other words, most of it is just flat wrong for fiction writers. But there are places and times it is right, and understanding that is…
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Trademark for Fiction Writers… Chapter One
CHAPTER ONE… (Please read the introduction to this book before reading this. You can find that at… Introduction.) The hardest part of writing a book on Trademark for Fiction Writers is where to start. I finally figured out that I do need to start with the fact that I am not an attorney, and nothing in this book is legal advice. I’m just trying to help other fiction writers understand this concept of Trademark in Intellectual Property. To do anything in this area, consult a real IP attorney. But my hope is after this book, the attorney won’t have to waste a lot of your money explaining basics to you.…
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Myth Lectures
The Sixth Lecture Is Up… It’s the first one in the Roadblocks bundle. The other four later this week in that bundle. So here, once again, is all the information about the myth lectures… Fiction Writing Myths Lecture Series… The first six lectures on the myths of fiction writing are now available on Teachable.com. There will be twenty lectures total, twenty different myths in four different lecture bundles. This first bundle of five lectures we are calling Creation. There will be three other bundles of five lectures each, totally twenty different lectures of nine or so videos each lecture. (They will appear as I get them recorded.) In other words,…
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August Workshops Have Started
Almost No One Signed Up… Clearly the Time of Great Forgetting is still in full force. And since I have done a ton of things today, including working on a couple issues of Pulphouse, some cover stuff for Smith’s Monthly and short stories, and assignments and such, I’m going to be lazy and just put up the listing for the August workshops again. August Workshops Starting Up! Including New Attitude in Fiction Workshop… Class #11… Aug 6th … Endings Class #12… Aug 6th … Attitude Class #13… Aug 6th … Time Travel Class #14… Aug 6th … Speed Class #15… Aug 6th … Teams in Fiction Class #16… Aug 7th … Depth in Writing Class…
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It Is August…
Time to Return From The Land of Great Forgetting… There are numbers of ways to return. For example, a couple writers from the same city just jumped onto the Great Challenge to write a short story per week and push each other. That’s a cool idea. Not only do you get finished stories, but with two writers pushing each other, you have even more chance of making it through and ending up with a large number of finished short stories and lifetime subscriptions. And yes, lots of room in both novel and short story challenges. About half of those in the novel challenge have dropped away and a third of…
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Romance Workshop Study Along
Just About the Last Possible Moment to Join… There is a reading list with this Romance Workshop Study Along. The workshop is in Las Vegas on the 20th-24th of September and has been full for almost a year. But there is still a little room in the Study Along which is online. You will write stories, listen to Kris talk about the reading list books, and listen to lectures from me about what Kris is teaching that weekend here in Vegas. (I read the stories you turn in.) So, if you want into this How to Write Romance Fiction Study Along online course, you got to act fast or you…
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Writing Flash Fiction
Pop-Up #12 Now Available… How to Write Successful Flash Fiction… We tried to come up with a way to make this into a full workshop, but just not enough. But it fit perfectly in a Pop-Up. And the fun story prompt on this one is to see if you can write a piece of flash fiction for Pulphouse Fiction Magazine. That’s right, I buy flash fiction at Pulphouse, but never much see it. So for this one Pop-Up, inside the deadline of the Pop-Up, if you write a piece of flash fiction that I think fits Pulphouse, I will make you an offer. Only one chance, one story per person,…
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Random Signs
A Week Or So Ago… On my way back on Interstate 70 from Colorado into Utah from being a guest lecturer with Kevin J. Anderson’s class at Western Colorado University, I saw three signs in the space of a quarter mile or so. It was on top of one of those 8,000-foot-plus mountain passes. The signs were so weird I had to call Kris and have her write them down for me before I spaced them. First sign… TRAIL THROUGH TIME And there was an arrow to the left. Very quickly after that sign, there was another simple sign… EAGLES ON THE HIGHWAY Okay??? I knew I was up high,…
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Flat Amazing Workshop
Business Master Class in October 2019… I will talk more about it once everything is completely finalized, but wow I thought the last two years took indie business to a new level, this workshop in October will jump that up a long ways. The more we finalize all the details, the more excited I get. If interested, still room to jump in. Just write me. And follow this space for details. Lifetime Subscription to Lectures… This subscription is now the second best thing we offer. Over forty-some lectures up there and now we are adding in another twenty lectures on myths of writing and publishing. Five new ones are up…
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Quick Afternoon Post
WMG Publishing Master Business Class… Hotel information sent over the list. So check that and get your room if you are signed up. It is really the best all around to be in the room block for the workshop. Once we fill the room block, everyone gets more discounts and a bunch of free stuff. I will be sending out more invites shortly to the Master Class group list for those who are signed up, but not on that list yet. So far here are the guests I can think of off the top of my head… Mark Leslie from D2D will be there. Also a major editor and writer.…