• Challenge,  workshops

    Teachable Full Sale!!!

    Every Workshop, Every Class, Every Subscription 50% Off!!! This is in honor of the WMG Publishing Offices moving to Las Vegas. That’s riight, it is happening later this week and next week. Our new office is so cool. We will do pictures when it is all set up! But in honor of that, we are putting everything on Teachable on sale at half off. Just hit purchase what you want, and then put in the code on the next page and hit apply and you will have it for half price. Code is… OfficeMove This includes all lifetime subscriptions as well, and the Everything Lifetime Subscription. (If you have a…

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    WRITER’S BLOCK FREEDOM CLASS STARTED…

    FIRST WEEK OF 18 WEEKS NOW UP!!! Here is the first post again that I wrote about these classes back three weeks ago. Feel free to write me with questions. Big New Two-Part Class With Webinar!! We are going there. Right into the teeth of Writer’s Block. Kris and I sat down a couple days ago over lunch and started talking about, and writing down, the types of writer’s blocks we have fought through or seen others fight. We defined the term “writer’s block” as something that causes writers to not write as much fiction as they want, or at slower speeds, or without fun, or in worse cases, not…

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    Mystery Novella and Writer’s Block Freedom

    Both Start Tuesday (Tomorrow)… Along with the MYSTERY NOVELLA class on www.wmgwriterstore.com and the WRITER’S BLOCK FREEDOM class on www.wmgwriterstore.com, there is on Teachable the October Regular workshops starting up as well. Writing Into the Dark Teams in Fiction Depth in Writing Advanced Depth Killing the Critical Voice So Regular October workshops are available, but the two large workshops are starting on Tuesday at www.wmgwriterstore.com. MYSTERY NOVELLA CLASS and WRITER’S BLOCK FREEDOM. And yes, you can take them both at the same time. In fact, you will be writing a mystery novella when the other class is taking a month off. And remember starting the third week of the WRITER’S…

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    Lots of Workshops Starting Tuesday!!

    October Regular Workshops Start Tuesday… Along with the MYSTERY NOVELLA class on www.wmgwriterstore.com and the WRITER’S BLOCK FREEDOM class on www.wmgwriterstore.com On Teachable, here are the October Regular workshops that are starting. Writing Into the Dark Teams in Fiction Depth in Writing Advanced Depth Killing the Critical Voice Plus tomorrow I will send out letters to those who took the two Kickstarter Special Workshops in the last Fey Kickstarter. First sessions on those also start on Tuesday, but those who took those have two choices as to when to start. On other workshop news, Kris is reading the Science Fiction Novellas and then will start on the fantasy novellas. I…

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    One Day Left On Discounts

    Early Bird Discounts End Thursday Night at Midnight… Get a pretty major discount for both parts of the WRITER’S BLOCK FREEDOM classes. Remember, the first session starts on October 1st. That is just next week. Wow. WRITER’S BLOCK FREEDOM PART 1… October/November (starts October 1st) 9 weeks of classes, 8 assignments, 7 webinars. WRITER’S BLOCK FREEDOM PART 2… January/Feb (starts January 7th ) 9 weeks of classes, 8 assignments, 9 webinars. December off and you must take part one to take part two. (Webinars will be recorded and are not mandatory to attend, so no worries.) Each week will have five or six videos plus an assignment. The assignments are not…

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    Early Bird Discount Ends Thursday

    These Writer’s Block Freedom Classes Are Special… The more Kris and I work on putting these together, the more excited I am getting about it, especially with the two parts over four months and the weekly webinar that will be recorded. It will still be available after Thursday, just more expensive. And remember, this starts on October 1st. Not very far away. WRITER’S BLOCK FREEDOM PART 1… October/November (starts October 1st) 9 weeks of classes, 8 assignments, 7 webinars. WRITER’S BLOCK FREEDOM PART 2… January/Feb (starts January 7th ) 9 weeks of classes, 8 assignments, 9 webinars. December off and you must take part one to take part two. (Webinars will…

  • Challenge,  On Writing,  workshops

    Telling Lies…

    Professional Writers Don’t Have Writer’s Block… Can’t begin to tell you how many times I have heard that, and how many times over the decades I said it about myself. And I believed that lie I kept telling myself and others. I totally believed it, even though I had years and years at different times I fought forms of writer’s block. I just never called it “writer’s block” because my belief system was that “writer’s block” was an excuse. Uh, no. Granted, what I do is sit alone in a room and make stuff up. Not a hard thing to do, but wow when it came to writer’s block, I…

  • Challenge,  On Writing,  workshops

    Early Bird Discount Extended…

    WRITER’S BLOCK FREEDOM Early Bird Discount… Discount now extended to Thursday, September 26th at midnight West Coast time. Why, because the discount is the difference between getting into the class and not for some. And we had a number of people ask if they could have a few extra days and when we said yes to one we wanted to make the extension for everyone. And remember, this starts on October 1st. Not very far away. WRITER’S BLOCK FREEDOM PART 1… October/November (starts October 1st) 9 weeks of classes, 8 assignments, 7 webinars. WRITER’S BLOCK FREEDOM PART 2… January/Feb (starts January 7th ) 9 weeks of classes, 8 assignments, 9…

  • Challenge,  On Writing,  workshops

    Expectations…

    One of the Big Evils… Expectations can come from about a billion places for all of us. But most of the time we don’t even know when we have let an expectation in. Sometimes we do, though, and those are so deadly so fast, it is amazing. I can’t begin to tell you how many times I have heard a writer say, I’m going to quit my day job for one year and I hope to be making a living after a year. Of course, that is flat insulting to any professional writer who has worked years and years to learn their craft and business, but we all know that…

  • Challenge,  On Writing,  workshops

    Time, Expectations, and Reality…

     Three Topics in WRITER’S BLOCK FREEDOM… More I think about how Time, Expectations, and Reality mix, the more I realize that for me, all three are part of my writer’s block problems at the moment. Yes, as anyone who has been watching these blogs and the challenges this year, you know I am dealing with getting back up to my normal writing speed. Not being at speed is one of the hundreds of forms that Writer’s Block takes. Why can’t I just fire back up now that my shoulder is in good shape again? Why can’t I just get back into the writing chair more often? The answer, of course,…