• Challenge,  workshops

    Workshops to Help Your Get Through…

    … The Time of Great Forgetting. And challenge yourself and learn a lot at the same time. Starting May 6th, three ADVANCED CRAFT CLASSES. ADVANCED CLIFFHANGERS ADVANCED ENDINGS FLOATING VIEWPOINTS Maybe three of the most important classes we do. All are 9 weeks long with eight assignments. The Floating Viewpoints class will change what you think you know about fiction writing forever. Cliffhangers will make your books move faster and be unable to be put down. Endings will sell you a ton more of your next books. Three classes that will challenge you and teach you and keep you focused on your writing until July. All are on WMG Teachable.…

  • Branding,  Challenge,  workshops

    Wearing Brands

    Fun Wearing My Own Brands… I have got three hoodies for the Licensing Expo next month that have three of my brands on them. Poker Boy, Bryant Street, and Pulphouse. Amazing how much fun it is to wear your own brands and how much it can motivate you to write more. I had no realized it would feel that way for me. And I hope at the Licensing Expo to get some interest in the brands. Going to wear one per day. Some of you taking classes right now might see me recording in the Poker Boy hoodie. And speaking of a brand, we just put up THE KRIS AND…

  • Challenge,  On Writing,  workshops

    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…

  • Challenge,  workshops

    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…

  • Challenge,  Kickstarter Campaign,  workshops

    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.

  • Challenge,  Kickstarter Campaign,  workshops

    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…

  • Challenge,  workshops

    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……

  • Challenge,  Kickstarter Campaign,  workshops

    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…

  • Challenge,  workshops

    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…

  • Challenge,  On Writing,  workshops

    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…