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New Summer Coast Workshop…
Writing Long and Short in Your Series… Yes, we are trying a summer workshop again after five years of no summer workshops. Many have asked us for a summer writing and craft workshop and here it is. Limited to only ten from out of the area and only four locals from the area. COME SPEND A WEEK ON THE BEACH IN THE SUMMER ——————- Writing Series Stories and Novels July 21st- 28th, 2018 Taught by the multiple genre award-winning writer Kristine Kathryn Rusch (with a little help from Dean Wesley Smith). Both Kris and Dean have many successful series to their name in their forty-plus years of writing. This will be an…
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Book Four Out of Sixty-Seven
Yikes… That feels like a long ways to go. I know, I know, one book at a time. (grin) So here is the video I did about the fourth book in The 67 Challenge, a Thunder Mountain novel called Tombstone Canyon. A time-travel western about a hidden canyon that actually exists in the Idaho wilderness. Some of you might remember I wrote this one in July in that challenge. It was published the first week of December. ————– Weekender Pop-Up Online Workshops Are Now Up on Teachable. A couple of these are about half full. February 15-18, 2018 — Controlling Fear of Failure — How to Study and Practice in…
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Curriculum Updated and More Information
Finally, After A Year, the Curriculum Updated… The Curriculum now includes all the new writing and publishing workshops from the last year and the new Pop-Up Weekender workshops we just announced. No workshop doubles up information. All of them are unique and focused in an area of fiction writing and business. The curriculum is divided into a number of categories to help you decide, but I will always answer questions if you are unsure. ————————— I’m Still Working On Marble Grant Novel Actually, making a little progress. And I am still working on getting back the responses to the last short story challenge that ended on December 1st. That is…
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New Pop-Up Weekender Workshops
POP-UP WEEKENDER WORKSHOPS WMG Publishing announces a new category of writing and publishing online workshops. Shorter and more intense learning experiences. Kristine Kathryn Rusch and I have a number of workshop ideas we have wanted to do, but they are too long for a lecture and two short for the six week structure of the regular workshops. To remind you… —A Regular workshop goes through seven or so videos each week for six weeks and five homework assignments and costs $300.00. It takes six weeks to finish a class. Full list and descriptions at www.deanwesleysmith.com/online-workshops/ —A Classic workshop is a retired regular workshop that you can go through as quickly…
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Coast Workshops Update
Thought It Was Time… So here are the available coast workshops and their status at the moment. Here are the dates of the coming coast workshops. Full descriptions at Coast Workshops. ANTHOLOGY WORKSHOP… Feb 24th through March 3rd, 2018. Full and Writing already. FANTASY WORKSHOP… April 14th through the 21st, 2018. Taught by Kris. FULL AND READING ALREADY THE GREAT BUNDLE WORKSHOP… May 5th through the 12th, 2018. A completely new and original idea for a writing workshop. See the details on the Coast Workshop page. This one will start writing in late March. Still a few spots open. Jump in if interested. CROSS GENRE WORKSHOP… September 15th through the…
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New Classic Workshop Now Available
There Are Now Ten of Them… That’s right, over the holiday I finally managed to get Writing Thrillers Classic Workshop up and on Teachable. Classic Workshops are workshops that used to be Regular Workshops at one point or another. The information is still good, but we moved them to classic to get them out of the monthly rotation. They cost $150 and there are six weeks of videos. And there are assignments, but you only do them for yourself. You do not turn them into me. Another difference from Regular Workshops is that you can go through the Classic Workshops at any point, all six weeks as fast or as…
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Last Day for Workshop Offer!
Almost Done… The offer is below the list of workshops. I wanted to post them here again tonight in no particular order except that the Depth should be first. Below that are the Classic Workshops available at the moment, then the special offer. I am amazed we have 19 Regular Workshops and 6 Strengths Workshops and 9 Classic Workshops, with more Classic coming on line over the next week or so. That built up far, far more than we had ever expected this to do. But Kris and I are very proud of these workshops and the help they give to writers who are driven to learn. LAST DAY!!!. A…
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Special Offer on Workshops Has Two More Days
Here is a list of the Regular Workshops… In no particular order except that the Depth should be first. Below that are the Classic Workshops available at the moment, then the special offer. Yes, you can get more than one workshop package. A number of people have gotten three, two people got three to take all six Strengths workshops, which are also available in this offer. Just TWO DAYS left. A List of All Regular Monthly Workshops (no real order) Depth in Writing (Start with this one. It is offered every month.) Advanced Depth Writing into the Dark Teams in Fiction Novel Structure Endings Author Voice Dialogue (Advanced Character and…
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Got Story Five Done by 6 A.M.
It Seems Being Exhausted Helps… I got to the story this morning at 3:30 a.m. Far, far, too late. But… My Day Went Like This… Just trust me, there was no stopping except for one nap, cook dinner, and watch one hour of The Voice. The rest of the day was going from 2 p.m. until now, 6:30 a.m. And yes, I got my 10,000 steps. I sat down at 3:30 and looked at my half-title sheet and decided the first thing I looked at I would go with, so that was “Under Glass.” And I would do a Cold Poker Gang mystery, since I have those characters in my…
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Workshop Offer Still Available
At least for four more days… I wanted to repeat this here to make sure everyone has a chance at this if you want workshops coming up. For exactly one week, until November 16th, you can get two regular workshops and two classic workshops for the price of $500. That is exactly the same as it was offered in the Pulphouse Kickstarter. A fun thing this year… If you would like, you can have us print up a nice-looking gift certificate and put it into a nice envelope, with someone’s name on the certificate, and send it to you to give as a gift for another writer for the holiday.…