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Gothic Craft Class…
May 5-8th in Las Vegas… In the WMG office in downtown Las Vegas. Starts in three weeks. Craft class taught by Kristine Kathryn Rusch. We have two openings in the In-Person class if interested. Write me. $750 fee. And on WMG Teachable, we will be doing the Gothic Study Along class. $300 fee. Basically I use Kris’s notes from the class to record what she has done and I read your story assignments. Not as good as being here with Kris, but a ton cheaper. (grin) Four days of videos plus two assignments to write stories. Those who are attending in person will be hooked up on an email list…
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Quick Update on Challenge at Day 100
Not As Good As Last Time… But last time I hung it up, this time I am making plans for the next 100 days of short story writing. Yes, I am behind some stories, but honestly, the insanity of the last three months, it feels great to have gotten done what I did So firing onward. I hope in the next 100 days to find the time to fire back up Smith’s Monthly in some way or another. At this point I might just make it a short story and collections magazine for a time, I sure got enough. (grin) So stay tuned as I ramp back up and work…
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POKER BOY KICKSTARTER LAST DAY!!!
Ends at 7pm West Coast Time Today (Thursday) My 50th Kickstarter!!! Yes, it is amazing that I have done 50 of these and all were successful. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/403649867/poker-boy?ref=2uys1x Fun new special workshops, fun merch, and even every issue of Smith’s Monthly. Great stuff. And if you get both Special Workshops, you get a bonus!! Take a look at these beautiful playing cards… Or these really cool mugs… And everything comes with the four Poker Boy collections in electronic. Every reward. Don’t miss this one. Today is it. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/403649867/poker-boy?ref=2uys1x Watch the fun video that Kris did. Might have to click it twice to start.
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FLASH SALE EXTENDED ONLY ONE DAY…
ALL CLASSES AND WORKSHOPS ON TEACHABLE HALF OFF… That’s right!! Half off. Kris asked me to extend this one day (Through late Wednesday night) so the writers on her lists could get a chance. Everything on WMG Teachable, all 600 plus classes, workshops, and courses are all 50% off. This includes all the Lifetime Subscriptions and also the Lifetime Everything Subscription. To get anything on WMG Teachable half off, just hit purchase, then use the code OneDayFlashSale Then hit apply and you will get it for 50% off. Get yourself set to learn and keep writing through the Time of Great Forgetting. We figured this flash sale might help. BUT…
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ONE DAY FLASH WORKSHOP SALE!!!
ALL CLASSES AND WORKSHOPS ON TEACHABLE HALF OFF… That’s right!! Half off. Just today. Everything on WMG Teachable, all 600 plus classes, workshops, and courses are all 50% off. This includes all the Lifetime Subscriptions and also the Lifetime Everything Subscription. To get anything on WMG Teachable half off, just hit purchase, then use the code OneDayFlashSale Then hit apply and you will get it for 50% off. Get yourself set to learn and keep writing through the Time of Great Forgetting. We figured this flash sale might help. BUT ONLY FOR ONE DAY!!! Ends Tuesday night late. No extensions. This is a true FLASH SALE… COLLECTION CLASSES ARE BACK……
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Two Really Special Additions…
To the Poker Boy Kickstarter… First off… we have added a really, really special bonus for writers We are giving away a $500 class with seven classes inside it for no extra charge. Just get the two special workshops together at the $250 level and you will get both workshops plus seven more in the FOCUS BUNDLE TO LEEARN CHARACTERIZATION. (Yes, if you already have it, you can give it to another writer.) Here are the details. This does appear in the story but not in the award itself. And yes, adding on the two workshops are fine. Poker Boy Kickstarter Link Here… SPECIAL BONUS!!! If you get both…
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Only Lost Two Stories…
Getting Everything Organized… Only cost me two stories. Going to make everything a ton easier and should be no issue catching up those two stories in the next week or so. Wow, did I find some stuff. With the novel starts so far in this new challenge (eight so far), I found another six or seven in the piles of manuscripts. So going to have a lot of novels lined up for next year. And I found stories that had been included in novels, but not put in Smith’s Monthly and so on. But interestingly enough, I was in better shape with those old stories than I thought. Only about…
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Time of Great Forgetting
To Get Though the Coming Months… Most writers need a focus of some sort. Today is a great restart date if you had a rough start to the year, or if you are just ready to go. But this month is the start of the time of great forgetting for writers. It lasts from the middle end of this month until July when writers surface and wonder what happened to the last few months. Spring, great weather outside, vacations, graduations, gardens, and a billion other things happened. I talk about this every year and some writers are managing to get through it and still focus on the writing. For me…
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April Regular Workshops Starting This Week!!
Added Two From Classics This Month… Heinlein’s Rules and Power Words. Here is the full list… Starting April 1st… Heinlein’s Rules (one month only) Writing Into the Dark Teams in Fiction Depth in Writing Killing the Critical Voice Advanced Depth Writing with Power Words (one month only) All workshops are on WMG Teachable. All are six weeks long with five assignments. Those with Workshop Subscription or Everything Subscription, write me for the codes if you want to do the assignments. And please tell me which subscription you have. Thanks! And the Lifetime Everything Subscription is still on sale for half price. If interested, write me directly. That is the only…
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THE GREAT RESTART COMING…
The First of April… A Lot of Year Left… I was doing a calculation of if it would be better to restart the 2025 words per day challenge or try to catch up. The answer is that it depends on how far behind you are. If you are on target at 2,025 words per day, by the end of March you would have written 182,250 words. (Really adds up, doesn’t it?) If you are only 15,000 to 20,000 words behind, no question. You can make that up easily. Extra 50 to 75 words per day. There are 275 days left. Adding 100 words per day to 2025 words would catch…