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Sometimes Days Are Good…
Today Was a Good One… I spent the day first recording a writing class that will be part of the Kickstarter. A fun and challenging one. Then off to the grocery store to shop. Beautiful day, weather perfect, got some exercise as well. Back home to eat lunch, then hang some of the last art that needed hanging, then back up to my office to record another writing class that Kris and I had worked out. Cooked dinner for Kris when she got home, then watched a little Voice, then back to my office to do some writing on the new novel. Then watched some television with Kris, then back…
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Ends at 7 PM Tonight
West Coast Time… At every award level you get a great new book from Kris called TEN LITTLE FEN. And every backer at $5 and up gets seven stretch goal rewards. That includes seven new books and six new Pop-Up writing classes for no extra charge. But the real key is you don’t want to miss the last few hours of getting two special workshops that will never be available anywhere else again. Only through this campaign. So here one last time is the information about the two special workshops and the six Pop-Up writing classes. This ends in just hours. Spade/Paladin Kickstarter Campaign. EXCLUSIVE TO THIS CAMPAIGN — How…
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Might Make Stretch Goal #7!
Getting Close!! Stretch Goal #7 not only has a free copy of a great Fiction River anthology for everyone, but it also has a Pop-Up Class for writers that a number of writers have written me about. Spade/Paladin Kickstarter Pop-Up: Stamina and Strategies to Write a Lot. You wouldn’t think there would be a lot to learn about that, but this idea for a Pop-Up came about one afternoon as Kris and I were headed somewhere and we got talking about writing a lot and how we both do certain things that allow us to not only write a lot each day on a bunch of projects, but keep it…
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The Workshops of Spade/Paladin Kickstarter
SOME AMAZING WRITING CLASSES… This ends in 2 days. Spade/Paladin Kickstarter Campaign. — How to Make a Place A Character In a Story… 3 week workshop with assignments and a story to write. ($150 or both for $250) — The Rule of Three and How to Use It... 3 week workshop with assignments and a story to write. ($150 or both for $250) — Pop-Up: How to Make Your Red Herrings Invisible. (Stretch Goal #2 hit… $150 value but free to all supporters at any award level.) — Pop-Up: How to Use an Existing System to Add Tension. (Stretch Goal #3 hit… $150 value but free to all supporters at…
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Kickstarter Ends Thursday
Don’t Miss This One… It has already funded and hit five stretch goals. Check it out at… Spade/Paladin Kickstarter Campaign. And remember there are two special workshops in this one that are going to be great. How to Make Place a Character in Your Story and also The Rule of Three and How to Use It. So many people write me wanting to get into these special workshops after the campaign is over and we just don’t allow it. Only way into these is through this campaign and there is only three days left!! Both workshops are three weeks and you can take them either starting October 26th or November…
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Results of the Race… And Pictures…
A Fun Morning… What was not fun was getting up smack in the middle of my night with 4 hours sleep. Nope, not fun. But wow was this Candlelighters Run well done! They had over a thousand people in this nifty park and running in the 5K. It started off into a suburb near the park and never left. That’s right, I was running in Bryant Street. But all the kids and superhero costumes were so much fun. It got hot really quickly on pavement. Wow. Kris got about a minute’s head start on me in the crowds, but I caught her in about ten minutes and went past. I…
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Here I Go Again…
Tomorrow, First Run… Far, far too early in the morning, but for a great cause, a children’s cancer fund. 5K Now the great plan that started back in July didn’t pan out real well, even though I did a ton of things right. I managed for almost two months to do more than 5K in steps per day, so far without missing more than a couple of times. Some days past 10K in steps and some running. I also made sure that every day I ate less in calories than I spent. I had almost no misses since the first of August. I had hoped to lose one pound per…
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Smith’s Monthly #53 Published
I Got a Little Carried Away… This monthly issue has 85,000 words in it. Yikes. Since I am working on another new Thunder Mountain novel, I thought I would put the very first one in this issue, along with nine short stories (four new, five in the serialization of Stories from July. The first Thunder Mountain novel (called simply THUNDER MOUNTAIN) was actually in Issue #2 of Smith’s Monthly in November 2013 with a very different cover on it. So anyway, thought I would note the publication today of Issue #53 of Smith’s Monthly. All 85,000 words of it. Yikes!! Here is the link to the page on WMG Publishing.…
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So Close to Stretch Goal…
Maybe We’ll Hit it By Morning… On the Spade/Paladin Kickstarter campaign, we are almost to the last stretch goal we had posted when we started. But no fear, Kris and I tomorrow (Friday) will post two more. We’re just trying to decide what to post. So right now I am having ups and downs on the computer connection again, so going to get this up quickly. Back tomorrow with the new stretch goals even if we don’t hit it tonight. UPDATE: Told this didn’t actually show up until this morning… So kind of a silly post since we did hit the stretch goal and I will be back shortly with…
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Difference In Types of Workshops
I Got That Question… What is the difference in the types of workshops you do ONLINE? On Teachable. Figured it was a good question. So I decided I would just explain all the workshops we do in a quick summary. And wow do we do a lot of workshops. So going from short to long… Lectures… Short, very focused on one tight topic. Takes about 45 minutes to watch. Do at your own pace. Pop-Ups… Takes about an hour and fifteen minutes to watch, on average. Focused on one business or writing topic. Has a short story you can write for it as well. Do at your own pace. Special…