• Challenge,  Fun Stuff,  workshops

    General Stuff… And Story Challenge

    Five Stories So Far… Everything going fine. 3 stories in the 2,500 word range, two stories in the 4,000 word range. I got jammed today building a new Kickstarter, so didn’t get the stories uploaded to Patreon or the rest of what I was going to do there, but will shortly. And will do a challenge complete update here shortly as well, including how the days are working out as far as timing. Workshop Sale will finally end today (Thursday in the evening). Use code YearEnd if you want to grab one last class on 50% off sale. I have been holding up on my calorie limits and hitting my…

  • Challenge,  workshops

    Sale Extended and My Challenge

    Sale Extended Until Thursday Evening… We have extended the sale, meaning leave the code in place, until Thursday evening. So you can get anything on WMG Teachable for half price until Thursday by hitting purchase and then using the code YearEnd If you missed something you wanted or the sale went by and you didn’t notice until now, it’s not done yet. The reason is that we had two people ask if they could get the half price sale in a day or so, and I talked with WMG and we decided if we give it to them, we needed to just leave it open for everyone. Win/Win. So remember,…

  • Challenge,  workshops

    Last Day of the Workshop Sale

    Ends Late Tonight… Tuesday Night Everything on WMG Teachable is half price. Just hit purchase on what you want, then put in the code: YearEnd And you can get it for half price. Starting right now are the Regular January Workshops. February Regular Workshops are also available for the sale, but the January ones are starting right now. They are normally $300, but for the sale they are $150 with the code. They last six weeks and take about three hours a week at your own time. The dates are the starting dates. Start with Depth in Writing if you have not taken one before. Class #1… Jan 4th ……

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    Last Two Days of Year End Workshop Sale…

    Yup, Just Two Days Left… Amazing how time flies when we are all having holidays. Anything on WMG Teachable is half off. Just use the code: YearEnd To use the code, hit purchase on the class you want and then on the next page put in the code and you will be in at half price. Remember, it’s everything. Six new collection classes are now up. And a way to buy all six from the first year or all six from the second year. They are great fun and you write five new stories and publish a collection with those stories by the end of the class. A number of…

  • Challenge,  publishing,  workshops

    Deductions

    Paying Attention to Your Taxes? If, in the best world (which I must admit almost no writers live in), you would have already figured your income for 2021 from your writing and the expenses you can take that income down to make sure you don’t pay taxes. Yeah, and cows can fly. But that is the right way to do it, and honestly, except for 2020, I come close each year to knowing exactly what WMG Publishing made and our tax situation by the last week of the month. I don’t have it to the penny, but I know. (Let’s just say that 2020 surprised me on the income to…

  • Challenge,  workshops

    All Collection Classes Now Available

    And Both Bundles of Each Year’s Classes Collection Classes are nine weeks long and you end up publishing a collection based on the theme in the 9th week. We do six different classes per year. The six from last year that are all available again in 2022 are: Portals, Heroes and Heroines, Private Eyes, Holiday, Fantasy, and Relationships. The new six for 2022 will also extend into 2023 if you miss one… I will be putting up other sessions later in the week. Right now just the first sessions are up. The new collection classes are: Pets, Spies, Space Opera, Thieves, Dynasty, and Time Travel. In these classes you learn…

  • Challenge,  workshops

    Three New Collection Classes Are Up…

    Pets, Spies, and Space Opera Those are the three topics for the nine week collection classes that have started in 2022. Pets starts in January, Spies starts in March, and Space Opera starts in May. Also all six of the 2021 Collection Classes have sessions in 2022 as well. Their themes are Portals, Heroes and Heroines, Private Eyes, Holiday, Fantasy, and Relationships. I will have the last three new ones posted in the next few days, along with a bundle that you can get all six new ones for the price of five. There is already a bundle there for the first six. In these classes you learn in general…

  • Challenge,  Fun Stuff,  workshops

    What Did I Do On My Holiday?

    Got That Question a Number of Times… Answer is basically the same thing I do every normal day of the year. I worked on getting the workshop sale up and going. You can read all about that in the last two blogs. 50% off until January 4th on everything on Teachable. (Just put in the code YearEnd after you hit purchase.) I worked with Kris at lunches on more classes. I will record those soon. And I did a bunch of recording as well including the Motivational Monday I just put up a bit ago. I wore a red shirt to record those because I recorded them on Christmas. (Does…

  • Challenge,  workshops

    New Workshops

    Already Up and Others Coming in the Next Three Days… All six of last year’s collection classes are now up and the Pets Collection class is up starting in January as well. I hope to have the entire 2022 schedule by the end of the week if you are interested in taking collection classes. And the Pulp Speed regular workshop is up in February now. The Decade Ahead year of classes is all set and ready to go for 2022. Starting over, although we left in two of the Pop-Ups that we had included on the first attempt back in 2020. Videos on that first month of that year-long class…

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    Year-End Workshop Sale

    Starts Today (Christmas Morning)… And runs to January 4th, which is ten days. The code is YearEnd to get 50% off any workshop or challenge or lecture or Pop-Up or anything on Teachable. This is on Teachable. All of the January and February regular workshops are up and available, including the new Pulp Speed workshop in February. And we have up at least 54 Pop-Up classes. The challenges of doing a short story per week, a novel every two months, or publishing a major project every month are available in this as well. Also the best deals are the lifetime subscriptions. Six new Study Along workshops are listed for just…