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Last Day!!!
Kickstarter Workshops… Okay, in the last hours of this campaign, things went nuts for workshops on the WMG Holiday Spectacular 2024 Kickstarter. We hit both the special stretch reward plus the third stretch reward. That means all backers at any level get two more great holiday books to read, but also the first and second quarter of Bite-Sized Copyright. Both quarters of 13 weeks of classes are worth $500 each, so $1,000 in workshops for writers just for backing the campaign. (Not a writer or already taken the class, you can gift it to another writer. Make a fantastic holiday gift and you would get it just for backing the…
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Updates!!
Space Opera… From January 13th through noon on the 16th, Kris is teaching an in-person craft workshop on the topic of Space Opera. (She has won dozens of awards and even more nominations for awards for her space opera writing over the decades, not counting the millions of copies of space opera books and stories she has sold.) So those of you signed up for the in-person space opera craft class here in Vegas, the reading list will be headed out to you later tonight with more information. We are at a fantastic new place for this that we toured today. The Circa. It is just four years old and…
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The Kris and Dean Show Returns!
That’s Right! For eight weeks Kris and I will do a session together, like we started at conventions over 30 years ago, talking business and writing. People called it “entertaining” and gave it the name “The Kris and Dean Show.” This return of The Kris and Dean Show will focus on helping “Get Writers Prepped for 2025.” Eight weeks…Starting Tuesday!! Each week will have… — A session from The Kris and Dean Show on a topic for the week. — Five videos detailed out by both and presented by Dean. — Webinar the following Monday to talk over ideas and answer questions and more. Because of the heavy videos of…
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Workshops Started
Lost In the Insanity of Tuesday… 5 Regular and 2 Advanced workshops just started. Advanced Emotion Craft Workshop and also Advanced Unputdownable both started on Tuesday and go for 9 weeks on Teachable. Advanced Emotion is a critical craft workshop for bringing more readers to your work. Also all five core six-week Regular Workshops started on Tuesday and Wednesday. Depth, Advanced Depth, Writing into the Dark, Teams in Fiction, and Killing the Critical Voice. All of these are on Teachable It is the Advanced Emotion Class that is a major class to improve your writing and sales. Don’t miss it. It won’t be back around until next November. HOLIDAY SPECTACULAR…
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Classes Starting Tuesday…
5 Regular and 2 Advanced… Advanced Emotion Craft Workshop and also Advanced Unputdownable both start on Tuesday and go for 9 weeks on Teachable. Advanced Emotion is a critical craft workshop for bringing more readers to your work. Also all five core Regular Workshops are scheduled to start on Tuesday. Depth, Advanced Depth, Writing into the Dark, Teams in Fiction, and Killing the Critical Voice. Last Day for 30% off Early Bird Discount on new Trademark Class!!! Last few years we have done Motivational Mondays (twice), Creative Survival, and Bite-Sized Copyright with the structure of four videos every Monday morning for the entire year. So for 2025, we are going…
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Bite-Sized Branding and Trademark
EVERY MONDAY MORNING FOR 2025 Last few years we have done Motivational Mondays (twice), Creative Survival, and Bite-Sized Copyright with the structure of four videos every Monday morning for the entire year. So for 2025, we are going ahead and really doing a challenge with BITE-SIZED BRANDING AND TRADEMARK. Four videos every Monday morning for the entire year to make branding and trademark for writers easy and painless to learn. Of all the classes we teach, this might make you the most money in both the short run and long term. This will not be legal advice on trademark in any way, but will be advice from one writer to…
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Last Day of Workshop Sale…
Until April… So it is fine to stock up on a few workshops and take them when you have time. Or get a challenge and start in January. Let me Repeat a Few Things… Kris told me a few nights ago that she had sent out the first assignments to her Kris Reading Program where she gives assignments to a few writers and they have two weeks to write her a story. Then she gives them feedback and a new assignment. She really limited the participants to start, but she said that she thinks she is really going to enjoy doing it and wouldn’t mind one or two more writers…
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I Will Be So Happy….
To Not Have To Talk Here About Workshop Sales… At least until next April. (If then.) I got so many other things I would rather talk about here. Like the stories I am reading and other learning stuff. Fun stuff. To be honest, even though the sales are a great deal for writers to keep learning, I am bored pushing them. Maybe that will change by April. So this 60% off workshop sale, the last sale until at least April, is done late Monday. Information in the last few posts. Now tonight I am going back to putting finishing touches on the fantastic WMG Holiday Spectacular 2024 Kickstarter that is…
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QUESTION… What’s In It??
Got That Question Three Times… About what was in the Everything Lifetime Subscription. Seems my answer of “Everything on WMG Teachable” was not enough of an answer. So for kicks and giggles here on this Friday night, I thought I would answer the question a little better so you can see why I say it is the best deal to really learn writing and publishing. To be honest, I have never done this so I am kind of curious how much is on sale at the moment. (grin) So here I go… No doubt I will miss something. All the misc classes… Things like Licensing, 50 Years…, and so on.…
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Misc. Stuff and Sale Extension…
A Number of Things… Kris told me tonight that she had sent out the first assignments to her Kris Reading Program where she gives assignments to a few writers and they have two weeks to write her a story. Then she gives them feedback and a new assignment. She really limited the participants to start, but tonight she said that she thinks she is really going to enjoy doing it and wouldn’t mind one or two more writers to jump in. Full information is https://deanwesleysmith.com/kris-reding-program/ But max two. So read the post on what it is about and follow the instructions there. Pretty amazing she is doing this. I doubt…