• Challenge,  Kickstarter Campaign,  On Writing,  workshops

    Last Day for Holiday Spectacular!!

    Ends at 7PM Today… That’s right, ends at 7pm today (Thursday). Kickstarter is counting down the hours. The campaign hit the 5th stretch goal and is on the way to the next one. More stories, more workshops for everyone. And every backer this year gets 39 original holiday stories, one delivered every day from Thanksgiving, November 24th, through January 1st. Over thirty professional writers wrote for it. Hugo Award winning editor Kristine Kathryn Rusch did all the editing. Talk about fun. We call the 39 stories the WMG Holiday Spectacular 2022 Calendar. And they make fantastic gifts. Who wouldn’t love to get a gift that goes and goes and goes…

  • Challenge,  Kickstarter Campaign,  workshops

    Two Days Left in Holiday Spectacular

    Less Than Two Days Left Ends at 7pm on Thursday. Kickstarter is counting in hours. The campaign hit the 5th stretch goal and is on the way to the next one. More stories, more workshops for everyone. And every backer this year gets 39 stories, one delivered every day from Thanksgiving, November 24th, through January 1st. Over thirty professional writers wrote for it. Hugo Award winning editor Kristine Kathryn Rusch did all the editing. Talk about fun. We call the 39 stories the WMG Holiday Spectacular 2022 Calendar. And they make fantastic gifts. Who wouldn’t love to get a gift that goes and goes and goes for the entire holiday…

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    One Day Extension of the Sale

    Because It Took Me So Long On the Classic Workshops… But finally got all six up late tonight, so extending the Last Sale for one day to give everyone a chance at the six new classic workshops, or other workshops you might have missed. I will pull the plug on the sale late Monday evening. The six classic workshops that are now available are: Covers101 Heinlein’s Rules Writing with Speed Writing Short Stories Writing Sales Copy Media Kits And everything else is still available as well. Everything is on WMG Teachable. Everything is 50% off if you use the code: TheLastSale after you hit purchase. I do mean everything. Any…

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    LAST DAY OF LAST SALE!!

    Three Classic Workshops Added… Three more tomorrow afternoon, before the sale ends. The three new classic workshops that are now available are: — Covers101 — Heinlein’s Rules — Speed in Writing All three were regular workshops, now are classic. They are exactly the same, six weeks of videos, only as classic you do not turn in the assignments. And I was stunned tonight to discover there are 44 classic workshops. Wow, that’s a lot of videos. (grin) And tomorrow, if I am not totaled by the run, I will try to add the classic workshops Short Stories, Writing Sales Copy, and Media Kits before the sale ends. Everything is on…

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    Workshops Not Ending… Only the Sales

    Thank you for the kind words, everyone… But a lot of you are making it sound as if the workshops are going away. Nope, just the sales, and I do understand that will limit a number of you going forward. Just nothing we can do if we want to get these out to as many writers as possible who might need them. So here is what is happening that we have planned now for the workshops that I can talk about or announce… First, we will keep doing new regular workshops. The six that are there for November are the core. Other new ones will be added in and then…

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    Some Updates

    A Bunch of Stuff… First off, my eyes are still recovering, so I am slow to answer some email and read stories. Please pardon me. Not straining my poor one remaining eye at the moment for anything. (grin) Second… The last workshop sale is going on right now. Ends on Sunday, and yes, look back a few posts and I explain why this is the last workshop sale, forever. To get anything on WMG Teachable, simply find the course and the hit purchase and then on the next page put in the code: TheLastSale And hit apply and you should get the class for 50% off. It includes everything you…

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    The Last Sale…

    Ever…. And we will not change our minds. This is it. This week. Why the about face on sales??? We said in June we would do a regular sale the last full week of each month up until the end of the year. Well, total failure. What is success to us? Having writers take the workshops or classes to keep learning. What the regular sales did from June until now basically caused the writers who are taking workshops and learning to be cut more than in half. So the sales don’t help more writers take classes, they instead cut the number of people taking classes and learning. And that is…

  • Challenge,  Kickstarter Campaign,  workshops

    WMG Holiday Spectacular 2022

    Kickstarter Campaign… Funded in less than an hour and hit the first stretch goal in less than 12 hours. Wow!! And this one we are doing 16 days instead of 9 days. So with luck, we’ll finally get the fun holiday calendar of stories to a place we have been hoping it would get to for the last three years. 39 stories this year, one delivered every day from Thanksgiving (November 24th through January 1st. Over thirty professional writers wrote for it. Hugo Award winning editor Kristine Kathryn Rusch did all the editing. Talk about fun. And two special workshops on the topics of two of the anthologies Kris will…

  • Challenge,  On Writing,  workshops

    Great Ideas For Advanced Classes

    Thank you, Everyone!! For the ideas here in the comments and to me directly through email. Fun Stuff. So let me break down some of the suggestions and combine them into advanced classes. Structure for this Advanced Series would be nine weeks long, with assignments along the way. Price would be $500 (same as the 9-week long collection classes). If we decide to do this, we would offer 6 of them in a year. You can buy all six at some point. They are not part of the regular workshops and would not be available for at least a year on any sales, just as the Business Master Class was…

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    Advanced Classes

    Need Some Opinions and Feedback… Kris and I have been talking over different structures and foundations for some advanced classes. And we want to do the classes so that not only early stage writers can get a lot out of them, but more advanced writers. And we want to do the type of class you can come back to over the years to get even more out of it. The classes would be two or three months long, very detailed and complete. Not part of the regular workshops in any way. We have ideas of what to do, but I thought tonight I would just toss it open to anyone…