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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…
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An Example of Two Brands
Author Brand and Project Brand… This Poker Boy Kickstarter campaign we hope to launch next week is really pulling together some clear images of how branding looks on the surface. I have an author brand that sort of got lost for a short time, but it back now very clearly. And projects it got lost on we will be rebranding very soon. Then Poker Boy now has a clear logo and covers that will be consistent over time with cards and fantasy women. So take a look at this image of some mugs we are offering in the campaign. My author brand, Poker Boy brand and logo, and the cover…
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Restart Challenge
I Love Restarting… Everything feels fresh and I can pretend that the problems earlier didn’t happen or don’t exist. I have missed about two weeks of stories total in my Write A Story A Day challenge. Not bad, but now I am starting fresh, making sure I get a story per day done, and when I have some extra time, finish a second one to catch up. But the challenge for me this next three months is to write a story per day, and maybe catch up four or five of the days I missed. Totally possible. But it would not be possible without the attitude of restarting. Three years…
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Value on Lifetime Everything Subscription…
Got An Observation That I Have To Respond To… Someone commented that if they bought a Lifetime Everything Subscription to our workshops on WMG Teachable, it would take years to make up for the costs in new workshops. I went, “Huh, that’s not right.” But I wasn’t sure, so I had to go figure it out to make sure. (grin) Here are the new classes and workshops we have added onto Teachable since January 1st of this year (2025). In essence under three months. ONLY THE NEW STUFF!! (Remember, the Lifetime Everything Subscription is for the 600 or so classes and workshops already there, plus everything going into the future.)…
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Let Me Show You A Brand…
POKER BOY BRAND… I have been writing Poker Boy stories since 1987. And over the years I tried to settle on a brand look as it became clear that Poker Boy was a main part of my writing. Marble Grant, Ghost of a Chance books and stories, Sky Tate, Pahket Jones, and others like Detective Crunch are all in the Poker Boy Universe. Finally, with all the learning I have been doing on brands and trademarks, the brand for Poker Boy finally came together with the brilliant help of Stephanie at WMG. And the look of the covers is finally settled as well. So firing up a Poker Boy Kickstarter…
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Fun and Excitement…
Building a Brand… Right now Steph and I (mostly Steph) are building the Poker Boy brand. In all the years I have been writing Poker Boy stories (since 1987), I have never been able to come up with a look, a brand look, for Poker Boy. At times, his stories had covers that sort of illustrated an event in the story. At one point we went to these really nifty cartoon covers designed by comic writer Lee Allred. Then we gave up on those and I started putting really wonderful fantasy women on the covers. So with a bunch of brainstorming and just standing back and asking basic questions, we…