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Summary Of Everything Going On
Four Major Things… So I thought I would try to sort them out and be clear on them, especially since a couple of these are ending soon or have limited space. 1… Novel and Short Story Challenge… Both the Novel Challenge and the Short Story Challenge have started. I have one spot open in both challenges still, so you can jump in any time between now and Tuesday, September 4th. Then it closes off. Costs $600 but you get two workshop credits for just giving either challenge a try. More information at Novel And Short Story Challenge. 2… Follow Along Living at Pulp Speed Five. I announced this last night…
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Living At Pulp Speed Five
Here I Go Again… A challenge to myself and a way for some of you to follow closely along and learn. That’s right, a crazy idea on both sides. See more below on this. Let me back into explaining this. Pulp Speed comes from Star Trek War Speed and is a way to sort of shorthand the speed that old pulp writers used to write at regularly for years. Pulp Speed One is 1 million words per year or about 83,000 words per month. So if you write 83,000 words in a month, you wrote at Pulp Speed that month. Pulp Speed Two is 1.2 million words in a year…
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Talking About Sayings
Saw A Good One Tonight.. “If you think you understand what you’re doing, you’re not learning anything.” Wow does this apply to writing. Writing, as many have learned in the workshops, is an art that the more you learn, the more you realize you have to learn. I love that part of it and always chase the next level up, constantly learning. So many of our workshops are awareness workshops, designed to basically tell you this area of writing and craft is here, and that your creative voice can use it when needed. Writing with Depth, which many have taken, is one of those “Wow, didn’t know that was how…
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We Made It! In Less Than Three Days!!
Flashed Past Our Kickstarter Goal… Needless to say, our is going great since we hit our goal in less than three days. So up next we have some amazing stretch goals, including a lot of books. In fact, if it goes all the way to the top nosebleed levels, everyone supporting will get 25 different books as bonus, not counting whatever each person signed up for and the Fiction River subscriptions. And along the way we will open up submissions to a couple Fiction River volumes as well, the first time in six years. So get friends to jump into this one just for the extra books and incredible volumes…
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Great First Day of the Subscription Drive
Got Some Great Questions… And a bunch of people got in under the 24 hours to get a free book of Kris’s called Spree. Thank you everyone for the support on our It is wonderful how Fiction River is going strong and with some fantastic writers. And we hit twelve issues since our last subscription drive, right on target and pace. —- I got some questions about the webinar that Kris and I will do for a reward on Kickstarter. It will only be offered on this subscription drive and is general publishing and writing questions. In other words, those of you who sign up for it set the topic…
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Live Question Sessions with Me and Kris
It’s A Reward On Kickstarter Actually three sessions. One session with me, one with Kris, and one with both of us answering questions about writing and publishing. It’s at the new at the $300 level. All kinds of cool stuff this year in our third in six years. (We do one every two years.) And as I said in the last post, you can get a ton of extra books (up to 25 books) if this goes as high as the past, and if it goes a little higher than the past drive, we will do an open call for one or two volumes of Fiction River, something Kris and I…
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Fiction River Kickstarter Subscription Drive
Now Live!! All kinds of cool stuff this year in our third in six years. (We do one every two years.) You can get a ton of extra books (up to 25 books) if this goes as high as the past, and if it goes a little higher than the past drive, we will do an open call for one or two volumes of Fiction River, something Kris and I swore we would never do. (grin) Yes, I said open call. But we aren’t doing it unless this subscription drive beats the last one two years ago by $5,000. So it is possible. So writers, pass the word about this one.…
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Two Sayings On My Office Wall
Both Have Been On My Wall For Decades… And they were on my office walls before that. So when we moved this last spring and early summer, I took the two sayings down and brought them with me for my new office. So what kind of sayings would I carry with me for so many decades? Almost since I started writing. The first, framed in a cheap mat and dirty and faded says simply… “If we could dare to write as ill as those whose voices haunt us still…” That is part of an Edward Gosse poem written way back and the poem is in the public domain. But think…
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The Two New Workshops Again
September Has Two New Workshops… Full descriptions below of the two new ones. I posted these a while back but I think they got missed. The How to Use Tags workshop is looking to be a special one. Difficult because most writers can’t begin to see them, but worth the time. To sign up for any of these, simply go to Teachable and sign up on the course directly. If you have a workshop credit you would like to use, or any questions, write me directly at dean.wmgworkshops@gmail.com Told you we were going to be doing a bunch of new workshops this year. Two in July and two in September…
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A GREAT QUESTION
Finally Got a Dean-Level Insane Question… On the novel and short story challenge starting in September. You know the one, write thirty short stories in sixty days or write three novels in three months. The challenge that is almost full. Someone asked me today if they could do both at the same time. I LOVE THAT! My level of nuts challenge. And, of course, I said sure. And I offered the person a discount if they wanted to try it. Second challenge at half price (still get two workshops). Both challenges for $900 and get four workshops. Why did I love that question? That is exactly the question I would…