• Challenge,  workshops

    USING THE FLASH SALE…

    … To Keep Focused Over the Next Few Months… We are in the Time of Great Forgetting, where writers with the best of intentions and the firmest of deadlines just sort of find days and weeks and months going by with little getting done with the writing and publishing. The time lasts from the middle of April until August 1st. (Why do you think so many major movies come out during these months?) This is a time to play for the population, to garden, to travel, and especially after the last two years, we all want to get out and do anything. So Kris and I figured that a very…

  • Challenge,  workshops

    FLASH SALE!!!

    To Help You With Time of Great Forgetting… We are doing a FLASH SALE. Starts now and runs through Wednesday at 7 pm West Coast Time. Less than four days. To get 50% off of anything on WMG Teachable, just hit purchase and then on the next page put in the code: FlashSale To get anything at 50% off. Right now the Time of Great Forgetting is hitting a lot of people very hard. So to keep focus on the writing over the next month or so, often the deadlines of a workshop help a lot. Plus the June Regular Workshops are now available and every regular workshop we do…

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    10 New Pop-Up Classes Now Up

    Science Fiction World Building Pop-Ups… Yes, these are the ten Pop-Up writing classes that tomorrow (Friday) will be going out to everyone who backed the RESCUE TWO Kickstarter Campaign. If you don’t get the letter with how to get into all of them by Monday and have checked your spam filter and the email that you used for Kickstarter, then contact Josh at WMG at subscriptions@wmgbooks.com But they are also for sale for anyone who missed them and will be added to the Lifetime Pop-Up Subscription as well. (Yes, you can buy a Lifetime Subscription to all 79 of them, with more coming shortly. They are on Teachable. Here is…

  • Challenge,  workshops

    Fun New Stuff…

    Next Kickstarter Campaign Will Have 10 Stretch Goals… They will have a new form of video event that will be amazing fun, a different one in each stretch reward. I will explain those as we get closer to firing up the campaign. Everyone at WMG is excited about them and no, they are not pop-ups. (Pop-Up stretch awards from the Seeders campaign should go out by Friday. I will announce it here and in an update. But starting on Monday, as a form of inflation-busting help, we are starting something new on Teachable: RECOMMENDED CLASSES OF THE WEEK. Basically a Bundle of Recommended Classes for that week. Each bundle will…

  • Challenge,  On Writing,  publishing,  workshops

    May Workshops Starting Up!

    Four Collection Classes and Nine Regular Workshops… All starting Tuesday and Wednesday. The four collection classes are: — Space Opera Collection Class (new) — Portals Collection Class — Private Eyes Collection Class — Holiday Collection Class These all run 9 weeks long, you write five stories along the way, do your own cover and sales copy and publish the story in the 9th week. Great fun. Cost is $500 for the nine weeks and if you hit all nine assignments, you get a Pop-Up worth $150 of your choice.  Sign up on WMG Teachable. REGULAR WORKSHOPS STARTING Class #41… May 3rd … Covers 101 Class #42… May 3rd … Making…

  • Challenge,  workshops

    Media Kit Workshop

    Changing Some Workshop Stuff… Going to finally climb off the two-month rotation of workshops and offer every regular workshop every month. Just going to be so much easier, but going to take me a little time to get June workshops, the first month for that, loaded up. Also the two special workshops, Ideas and Time in Space from the last Kickstarter campaign start their last sessions on May 3rd. Everyone got the links and codes for those a month ago. As far as the Focused Study stuff, we are still doing that for anything you think you might need help with. We will tell you if it is the right…

  • Challenge,  On Writing,  publishing,  workshops

    All Kinds of Stuff Today

    A Day of Finally Getting to Things… We all have those kinds of days. And I got a hunch I will be doing more and more of that this week and through next week as the craziness ebbs some after a stupidly long month of no time to breath it seemed. And yes, on the challenge, I missed some nights. But I will talk about that later and am writing fine now, so more than likely will start doing some extra stories next week to put in the missed slots. And I finally have my system in place. Part of what caused me to miss was my system collapsed, as…

  • Challenge,  workshops

    Last Day Finally Of the Sale

    Extended to Sunday Evening Late… Then done. To get any thing on WMG Teachable at half price, go to WMG Teachable and hit see all. Then find the class or workshop or whatever you want, hit purchase and on the next page put in the code: SpringSale to get the class or workshop at half price. Any questions, feel free to write me. ———– Now for a picture of my trip to Writers of the Future. It is me at the podium thanking Galaxy Press and Writers of the Future for trusting me with the editing job and promising to do the best job I can do, right before I…

  • Challenge,  workshops

    4 New Classic Workshops

    Finally Got Them All Up… And extended the half price sale until Sunday night so anyone interested in these new four can grab them in the sale. The four new classic workshops are: Attitude in Writing Secrets of Craft in Writing Publishing 101 Kickstarter Step By Step All four of these were originally regular workshops, so all have about 42-45 videos in them in a six week structure. But they are classic workshops, so you do not turn in the assignments, but do them for yourself. So until Sunday you can get these four and everything else on Teachable for half price by simply hitting purchase on what you want…

  • Challenge,  workshops

    WORKSHOP SALE EXTENDED!!!

    Workshops Half Price Until Sunday Evening… This is my fault and I hope it helps some of you. I have three workshops I had intended to move to Classic status before the sale ended, but since it was going to end today, and I wasn’t going to get to moving the workshops to classic until late today, three or four people asked and I just moved the end of the sale back until Sunday evening. The three formally regular workshops that will be classic workshops are Attitude, Secrets, and Publishing 101. So watch for those tomorrow afternoon or evening and grab them for half off. To get anything on WMG…