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The Myths of Fiction Writing Lectures
Fiction Writing Myths Lecture Series… The first five lectures on the myths of fiction writing are now available on Teachable.com. There will be twenty lectures total, twenty different myths in four different lecture bundles. This first bundle of five lectures we are calling Creation. There will be three other bundles of five lectures each, totally twenty different lectures of nine or so videos each lecture. (They will appear as I get them recorded.) In other words, each bundle of five lectures has around 45 videos. Each lecture will have nine questions we ask about each myth. The nine questions for each myth are: — What is the origin of the…
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Got Attitude
Attitude Online Workshop Starting… August 6th. ——- ATTITUDE IN WRITING FICTION Attitude is everything in fiction writing. From beating back fears, to taking the courage to try something new, to believing your work is worth publishing. Attitude can help you overcome doubts, believe in yourself on the outside while you doubt everything on the inside. A good attitude in fiction writing can be learned. There are also some really bad attitudes in fiction writing, ones that will quickly or eventually kill your writing. This workshop will deal with those as well, give you warning signs. Mostly this workshop teaches attitude and the confidence it takes to believe in yourself, in…
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Two New Lectures and New Pop-Up
Having Fun Publishing Stories… Pop-Up #10 is all kinds of tricks for writers who have trouble either sending out short stories to magazines or getting short stories up indie. Fun solutions, actually. And it is in both the Pop-Up #6-10 bundle and also the Pop-Up #1-10 bundle. All other Pop-Ups are gone except for the free one, #9. You can only now get #1-#8 in the bundles. And this new one has a short story prompt with it, as normal. (Nope, won’t count for a Great Challenge short story. (grin) Come on, you can do two stories in a week.) The two lectures are the first quarter of 2019 Tips…
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Holy Smokes… It Is July!
July Workshops Are Starting… I had no idea how it got to be suddenly July. Do we need to send out a search party for June? Wow, that Licensing Expo and all the learning just took June and flashed it past for me. So anyhow, working on reading challenge stories and getting out stretch rewards to the wonderful backers of Kris’s Diving Series. And because I didn’t realize it was July already, I almost forgot to do the assignments for the June workshops tonight and start the July ones. Almost no one signed up in the July workshops, so if interested, lots of room, just like this time every year.…
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Got Sidetracked Tonight
Reading… Time just went flashing past. So this won’t be much of a post beyond what I need to do to meet my challenge streak of this daily blog since I am an hour beyond when I normally head to bed. Both novel and short story Great Challenges are still open. And the Licensing Learn Along will be open for one more week before I shut down sign-ups on it. All on Teachable. July Workshops will be starting in one week. The Writing Westerns will be there and I will be adding it to the Lifetime Subscriptions in a day or so. (It is the 7th new workshop added to…
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Quick Saturday Post
Romance Study Along… The Romance Craft Workshop here in Las Vegas is September 20th through 24th and is taught by Kristine Kathryn Rusch, aka Kristine Grayson. It has been full for some time and everyone is reading the reading list Kris gave out. But the Romance Study Along on Teachable still has openings. And those signed up in that also have the same reading list. There is still time to jump into the Study Along and have time to read all the books on the reading list and take part in the Study Along. But not much more time. So check it out on Teachable.
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July Workshops Available
Including Both Writing Time Travel and Writing Westerns… A great list in July, but they start early this year, the 2nd and 3rd. So keep that in mind. You can still do the first week after the big US holiday, but the workshops start before the holiday. Lifetime subscribers, I will get the Writing Western workshop over into the subscription this next week. Interesting how many new workshops we have done this year. Four different Futures workshops, Emotion, Time Travel, and now Writing Westerns. Seven new workshops and the year is just half done. And four older workshops moved to Classic. So at $300 a workshop, just this spring came…
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Had Fun Today
First Day of the Licensing Expo… Wow, is that place massive. And I learned a ton. I talked about my day in three videos on the License Learn Along and put up a dozen or so pictures. I will be doing more posting over the next two days and then a bunch for three or four days after as I get rested and the information comes together. Then over the next few weeks I will talk about how Kris and I are digesting the information. You can still sign up on the Licensing Learn Along. What I can also say for sure after today is that the Master Business Class in…
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Learn Along With Dean
Learn Along with Dean in the 2019 Licensing Expo… This is a one-of-a-kind thing. Not a workshop, not a lecture, not a study along. Here is the introduction video and then below the explanation of this crazy idea. For almost two months before the 2019 Licensing Expo, Kristine Kathryn Rusch and I have been preparing to attend. Kris walked part of the floor last year with a friend and realized at once that we (and WMG Publishing) needed to attend in full learning mode this year. So we have been getting ready. (You can’t believe how much we have done in the last month or so.) In fact, just today, as…
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June Workshops and Descriptions
Time Travel Workshop Available… Plus I have below some of the descriptions of the Futures workshops, all four of them, and the description of the Emotions workshop and Time Travel workshop. I also have a list of all the different workshops now available. An amazing list. All this is on Teachable, of course, and that is where you would sign up unless you have a credit. If you have a workshop credit, write me. The four Futures workshops also have a bundle on Teachable that you can get all four cheaper if you buy the bundle. So first off, the June listing of Regular Workshops now available. Then all the…