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Half Way…
The Year Will Be Half Over on Saturday… Seems impossible, but yet it is. I got back to writing completely on April 1st after vision issues had stopped me and I learned this month that my vision now is what it will be going forward. As the doc said, “Your eyes look like a war zone.” So now, after three months of ramping up, learning how to write with the new vision, I feel like I am back to full writing speed again this week for the first time since last November. That bodes well for the second half of the year. I will be posting the July workshops tomorrow.…
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Four New Pop-Up Classes Available
Pop-Ups #80, 81, 82,& 83 All Live! And yes, they have been added to the Lifetime Pop-Up Subscription which is also in the Everything Subscription. These were the four stretch goal workshops for the Pulphouse Fiction Magazine Kickstarter. I hoped to have them out in April as we promised, but got behind because of my eye. So they went out to all the supporters tonight. If you did not get the update in the mail, check the Update #13 in the campaign. The Pop-Ups that were stretch goals for the Fantasy Collides Kickstarter will be following in a number of days. I will announce those here as well. Here are…
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June Workshops Starting Up!
Regular Workshops Starting… Each regular workshop is 6 weeks long. Again, it will take you about three hours per week on your own pace to do each of these if you do the assignments. These are the starting dates of upcoming regular workshops on Teachable.com Note: Adding Tags to Your Fiction is a RESURRECTED CLASSIC WORKSHOPS. It will only be available as a regular workshop for this one month. Class #53… June 6th … Writing into the Dark Class #54… June 6th … Adding Tags to Your Fiction Class #55… June 6th … Teams in Fiction Class #56… June 7th … Depth in Writing Class #58… June 7th… Advanced Depth…
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Last Day of Weekend Sale
Ends Midnight Monday Night West Coast Time Since everyone here in the States does sales (as I just pointed out yesterday), we decided to see how many writers were paying attention and give those who were a three day sale of any workshop they want to get on Teachable for 50% off. That’s right, any, from the lifetime subscriptions to the June regular workshops, and everything else as well. For example, I thought this surprise sale might get a few writers signing up for the full year of THE DECADE AHEAD or maybe BITE-SIZED COPYRIGHT. First quarters on both are all up, and we are through the 9th week of…
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Everyone Is Doing Sales…
Always Been Aware of That Trend… But I never really, really noticed how massive it was before this weekend when we fired up a sale for workshops. That sort of made me become aware. Wow, just wow. Today alone I got email about three-day-sales from a company I bought socks from, two shoe companies, a t-shirt place, an audio studio, two restaurants, three casinos, two car dealerships, a bakery, a gym, and that was when I stopped paying attention. Kris got in on a couple of the sales, I could use some new running shoes. So I guess they work. But our goal was to just help some folks with…
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Paying Attention Sale
Holiday Here In the States… The holiday here is called Memorial Day which honors those who served in the military and also family members who are no longer with us. And it is a time where people take vacations since it is a three-day weekend, or they spend time with their families in picnics or other activities. Experts also say that today is supposed to be the busiest travel day of the year as well. And for writers, this tends to be the first major weekend of the Time of Great Forgetting. Writers just forget about writing and learning and publishing and often don’t come back to paying attention until…
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June Workshops Now Available…
Yeah, May is Almost Gone… I have all the June Regular Workshops now ready for sign-ups on Teachable. Using Tags in Your Fiction is the Resurrected Classic Workshop this month. (It is still a Classic Workshop, but for one month you can get feedback from me on it as a regular workshop.) As we move through the more Advanced Craft Workshops, tags are slowly emerging as more important than anyone realizes. They are a powerful tool. Invisible to most writers, but powerful when you know how to use them. I figured it was time to bring it back for a month. Here are the June Regular Workshop classes… (If you…
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Tomorrow… Third Part
TONIGHT… Getting Workshops Live… The day got swallowed by workshop stuff and a couple major naps and some writing so that I didn’t leave enough time to do the post on indie publishing, so I will finish that tomorrow. For now, those of you who got the special workshops from Case Card Kickstarter should have gotten a letter from me with all the links and codes. And all May workshops, including the collection classes, have started up. So with that, I have done my blog for the night and am going for a much longer nap. Might be called a night’s sleep. But got to finish a chapter first.
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May Workshops One More Time
One More Reminder… Before I move on to other topics, I just have to remind everyone that the May workshops have all just started and time to get into them. Here is the post I put up a few days ago. —— There are some really great classes starting. Actually two Advanced Craft classes, four Collection classes, and seven Regular workshops. You can find them all on WMG Teachable. So here they are listed. ADVANCED CRAFT CLASSES… (Nine weeks long… Depth Workshop required for both. Dean gives feedback on eight assignments.) Floating Viewpoints… (Oh, my, maybe one of the toughest classes we have ever done.) Advanced Pacing… (My suggestion is…
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May Workshops Starting Up!!
Not a Clue What Happened to April But the May workshops are starting today (Tuesday) and Wednesday. There are some really great classes starting. Actually two Advanced Craft classes, four Collection classes, and seven Regular workshops. You can find them all on WMG Teachable. So here they are listed. ADVANCED CRAFT CLASSES… (Nine weeks long… Depth Workshop required for both. Dean gives feedback on eight assignments.) Floating Viewpoints… (Oh, my, maybe one of the toughest classes we have ever done.) Advanced Pacing… (My suggestion is to go over the Classic Pacing class first.) COLLECTION CLASSES… (Nine Weeks Long… You write five stories and publish a collection at the end. Any…