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Second Story Finished
OFF TO A DECENT START… Got the short story challenge going strong. Finished a second short story tonight. Also today went to the writer’s lunch and worked a bunch on workshop stuff. A good solid day and a lot of fun. ———- The Day… Got up to WMG by 2 p.m. for the writer’s lunch. Then around 4 Kris and I went for a walk. I only managed four miles today, which is fine as I ramp this back up. I got back to my office around 5:30 and worked there until almost eight on workshop stuff. Store and then home to cook dinner. Did some e-mail and more workshop…
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A Workshop Night
April Online Workshops… Everyone who is signed up should have gotten a letter from me tonight. If you are signed up and didn’t get the letter, write me. The April Online Workshops start on Tuesday and Wednesday and still lots of room to jump into any of them. It’s a good list this month. Any questions, feel free to write me. Information on each workshop under the Online Workshops tab at the top. And if you are confused as to which workshop to take first, we have a full curriculum posted on its own page. Class #31… Apr 4th … Writing Thrillers Class #32… Apr 4th … Point of View Class #33… Apr 4th…
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Strengths Craft Two Workshop Now Available
If you have signed up for all six workshops and did not get the code from me for Craft Two tonight, write me please. Here is all the information on where the Strengths Workshops now stand. Ever wished major writers would help you go in the right direction? These strength workshops do just that in craft, business, and sales. DETAILS OF THE WORKSHOPS Regular Sales This regular publishing and writing sales course tests your basic understanding of what makes a book sell. Covers, blurbs, wide distribution, expectations, plus much more. This will not only test you, but help you understand what you need to start learning to succeed in the future.…
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Collections and Workshops
Short post tonight to keep my blogging streak alive on this Saturday night. Turned in two collections tonight, plus worked on the Strength workshops this afternoon and evening. I will try to remember to let you know when the collections are live. We will be another few weeks before we get the sixth Strengths workshop up. We are enjoying working on them and answering assignments. So far so good. If you want to take three you get the fourth one free and if you take all six you get a monthly online workshop free as well. Information about the Strength Workshops is at Strength Workshops
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A Few More Strength Workshop Questions Answered
Been Getting Some Good Questions… So figured I would answer them here. Question: Do I have to start with Regular Craft or can I do Regular Business or Regular Sales strength workshop first? Answer: You can do any of the regular strength workshops you want first. Or just alone. A number have signed up only for the Regular Sales. — Question: Can I work on more than one workshop at the same time? Answer: Sure, you can do as many workshops at the same time as you want. So far this new method and Kris and I doing assignments as they come in hasn’t taxed us. In fact, it has…
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Strength Regular Sales Workshop Now Available
Announcing Strength Regular Sales Workshop Just getting these up one at a time. Next up later in the week will be Craft Two. —- Regular Sales: This regular publishing and writing sales course tests your basic understanding of what makes a book sell. Covers, blurbs, wide distribution, expectations, plus much more. This will not only test you, but help you understand what you need to start learning to succeed in the future. In the Sales Two workshop, we will cover web sites, social media, newsletters, bundling, branding, series, and more detail stuff. But this Regular Sales workshop is critical to understanding sales and having the foundation under you in order for the details…
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Information Overload
Brain Fried… I had a hunch that would happen tonight after almost four hours of talking writing and business of writing with 18 professional writers. Tonight it seemed to all focus on marketing and discoverability. Wow, just wow. So instead of trying to talk about something intelligent, figured I would clean up some business and answer some questions. Thanks Everyone Who Bought the Bundle. Turned out to be a good one and the charity made some nice money as well. So thanks. Questions Answered On Strength Workshops — I want to repeat that there is no hurry at all in taking the workshops. You can work on them at your…
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Curriculum for a Career
Strengths Workshops Function as a Curriculum of Study for a Commercial Fiction Writer… At least that is our intent. Let me see if I can explain as I did this afternoon to a couple of other writers who were interested. As writers, looking into the future, the biggest question is always “What do I do next?” Second biggest question is “How do I get there?” Now Kris and I have been crazy enough to try to lay out that path just as someone going into a college would get a path through courses to get to a certain resulting education in the end. Only in these workshops, we also test…
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A Giant Ape Kind of Day
How was that for a silly blog title?… But that’s what it sort of was, actually. Kris and I decided we needed a day doing something different. Can’t call it a day off when our job is having fun writing and playing in publishing. But we do need to do something different at times. So we drove into the valley and saw King Kong: Skull Island. Fun. Exactly as expected. I ate too much popcorn. Then we had a nice dinner, found a good pie shop for pie, then headed home after walking around a big discount store for a time to make sure we had our steps. When we…
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Strength: Regular Business Now Available
The Strength: Regular Business Workshop is now available and live… As I said a few days ago, Kris and I will be looking at writer’s work and testing writers to help each writer personally find out where they are at and what they need to learn going forward. So now the Regular Business workshop is up, focusing on Copyright, Money and Cash Streams, Business Structure, Time Management, Wills and Estates, and a ton more. Find out how much you know about all those topics and also where to find help for what you don’t yet know. THE POINT… All the Strengths Workshop are designed to help you understand story craft, business,…