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SPECIAL POST… One Day 50% Off Sale!!
Just Today… Done Tomorrow!! This is a special post, not a daily regular one. For just today, everything on Teachable is 50% off and then we are done with it all. One day only everything on WMG Teachable 50% off. Everything. Just find the class or workshop you want on WMG Teachable and hit purchase and then put in the code and hit apply and you will get it for 50% off. Challenges, everything. code is: OneDaySale (Far and away the best deal is the LIFETIME EVERYTHING SUBSCRIPTION.) Monday only Sale!!! You miss and all the sales go away on Tuesday.
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Challenge Day 5 and Also One Day Sale!!
Again I Was Stupidly Busy But I expected as much. Didn’t help that I expected it, but at least I didn’t get upset anywhere along the line. Tonight I put up the first weeks of two Monday classes. PUBLISHING MONDAY and also BITE-SIZED BRANDING AND TRADEMARK. As I was talking with Kris about them and how few had signed up, she just laughed. She said I have to know by now writers say they want that sort of thing but actually don’t. It seems that Kris and I are not normal. We want to keep learning everything we can, especially stuff that makes us more money and gets our writing…
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Second Day of Challenge…
The Fiction Writer of 2025… Back in traditional days, when I came in, fiction writers had employees called “agents”who jumped to the writer’s beck and call and fetched drinks and chased money. They lived off of 10% and then 15% of what the author made and never said a word about a writer’s work. That was not their job. Writers were the artists, agents did the scut work. Writers built careers over dozens and dozens of novels, sometimes moving houses regularly. They did none of their own promotion because publishers had sales forces and there was only one way to sell books and that was through what was called the…
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Quick Update on 12 Holiday Sale…
THE CODES FOR THE SALE ARE STILL GOOD! At least they will be for a few more days. So if you want to grab that last minute tax deduction for 2024 and start some learning for the new year, now is the time to grab a class or challenge or something. Go back two blogs to Sunday for the full list of the 12 day sale. Write me with questions and have a great start to the new year…
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A Quick Extra Post…
To Answer Some 12 Workshop Sale Questions… I will still do a regular post later tonight. But got some questions I wanted to relay… And yes, sale is still good for a few more days… “Which of the 12 Days sale items would I pick to help for the New Year?” Well, assuming the Everything Subscription is out of the picture, I think there are two of the days that would really, really help for the New Year. If you want to improve your craft, than any of the Advanced Craft Bundles (That was Day 5). Those classes are turning out to be amazing. And if your focus is on…
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Last Day…
Tomorrow This Blog Goes Back to Normal… And tomorrow I will finally announce my challenge here that I am going to attempt for 2025. I think I have all the parts worked out, so should be interesting. And this blog will go back to having three parts. But for right now one really great last day on the 12 Days of Holiday Workshop Sale. The Everything Subscription at half price. That covers everything that is on WMG Teachable and everything that is coming into the future. Might be the best year-end gift for your writing you can do not only for this year but for years to come. Twelve Days…
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It All Started With Workshops
We Called Everything a Workshop… At least in the beginning. And we tried to fit everything we decided to try to teach into the workshop format for the first number of years of online classes. But that slowly became clear it would not work, so we came up with lectures, and then Pop-Ups, and then general classes of all kinds and shapes. Every month we do regular workshops, the ones we consider to be the core classes every writer needs. Those regular monthly workshops are six weeks long, have five assignments, and about 40 videos total each. When a workshop loses attention, but we still feel it is important knowledge…
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Wow! Have We Done a Lot…
I Swore I Wouldn’t Do Online Classes… Not kidding. I swore I wouldn’t do them. Back before there was anything like Teachable, I was pushed into doing one online class one fall by a group of writers, encouraged by my wife. I swore it would only be one. I honestly did. Kris and I laid out the class and I presented it. Had to create a web site that acted very much like Teachable for the first few years. Then since we had decided for the moment to not do any more in-person classes, I did a few more over that first year. (We brought the in-person classes back at…
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Looking Forward…
Monday Morning Classes… Over the years we have done numbers of Monday morning classes, where every Monday morning four new videos appear on a certain topic. For 2025 we are doing PUBLISHING MONDAY and BITE-SIZED BRANDING AND TRADEMARK. Both should be great fun, 52 weeks of four videos per week per class, and they are available as the 4th item on the 12 Days sale list for 50% off. (No homework or assignments, just learning every week.) In 2023, we did a very future-looking Monday morning class called THE DECADE AHEAD, talking each week on how to focus out ten years with your writing and publishing. And just today I…
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I Am Making Progress On My Challenge Preparation
Actually, A Lot of Progress Today… I even did a couple of Smith Monthly Covers!! Still not sure about some of the tiny detail stuff, but covers look very possible and a lot of fun. Yay! I also did some of that basic stuff like used a few exterior hard drives to make sure everything was backed up. Amazing how many files I have with my fiction since my first computer days. And got two computers down on my office desk in WMG and ready to get set up. Those coming to the January Space Opera here in Vegas in mid-January will get to see all that sort of thing…