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How to Write Spaceships…
Special Class in THE CHASE Kickstarter… And you only got about 20 hours to get it. Goes away and won’t be offered again after 7 pm West Coast Time. Most writers I know, especially beginning writers, think they know how to write spaceships. But I see very few who actually do. Most end up putting a “bridge” in the middle of the ship, or the front of the ship as if spaceships had fronts, and by the time they are done, might as well have Captain Kirk sitting down in the center. And no setting, no sense of scale, and no clue how to do any of that to make…
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Forty Hours Left in The Chase Kickstarter…
Still Time to Get the New Diving Novel… And a bunch of other great stuff. You can get all sixteen Diving Books, or all six Colliding Worlds Collections, or two special workshops on writing that you will never get anywhere else. Those two workshops are only offered through this campaign and only in the next 40 hours. We also gaining quickly on the next stretch reward which has another book for everyone, plus another Pop-Up Class worth $150.00. And that will be the second one. So jump to the campaign and look at all the great stuff. And get early maybe the best Diving novel so far. And that is…
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ONLY TWO DAYS LEFT…
On THE CHASE Kickstarter Campaign. THE CHASE is Kris’s new Diving novel that is done and ready to ship to the Kickstarter supporters in June. It actually won’t officially publish online and in stores until September, so if you want to read it soon, get on over to the Kickstarter campaign. THE CHASE: Kickstarter Campaign Also got two great special workshops in this one. We have the How to Write Spaceships three week special workshop, only available through the campaign, and Writing the Vastness of Space- Two, again only available through the campaign. The topic was so large, we decided to do another one. It is not a sequel to…
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Following Up on Yesterday’s Post…
With a Personal Story… I wrote a novel for fun back in January of 2014 called KILL GAME: A Cold Poker Gang Novel. It came out in Smith’s Monthly in March and then as a stand-alone novel in May of 2014. It sold very few copies, maybe three or four a month, maybe. (That’s what I have been told.) Then in November my creative voice said “Write another.” I did, a book called COLD CALL: A Cold Poker Gang Novel. Again it was in Smith’s Monthly and out stand-alone a month or so later. Sold very few copies, maybe three or four a month. I did not care and paid…
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Deadly Problems For Writers…
Money… This might take a few posts to fully explain and add to. So hang on… Over the last month or so the biggest and most deadly issue I have tried to help writer’s through is the desire to make a lot of money with book sales quickly. In other words, the writer is not focused on the fun of writing a story, but on how the book is selling after they have finished it. This is what I call “Product Focused” vs “Process Focused.” The real problem comes in when the product focused gets into the process of writing and usually stops it cold, or makes in difficult and…
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THE CHASE Kickstarter Campaign Hit Third Stretch Reward
And Is Well On Its Way to the Next… THE CHASE is Kris’s new Diving novel that is done and ready to ship to the Kickstarter supporters in June. It actually won’t officially publish online and in stores until September, so if you want to read it soon, get on over to the Kickstarter campaign. THE CHASE: Kickstarter Campaign Also got two great special workshops in this one. We have the How to Write Spaceships three week special workshop, only available through the campaign, and Writing the Vastness of Space- Two. The topic was so large, we decided to do another one. It is not a sequel to the first…
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Get a Master’s Degree In Publishing
A Real Master’s Degree From Real Writers and Publishers… Not kidding. You can do it and in a year and the new year is about to start. This is the Masters Degree program taught by Kevin J. Anderson. You know, the New York Times Bestseller and half owner of Wordfire Press. That Kevin J. Anderson. And helping him is Allyson Longueira, the publisher of WMG Publishing Inc. (I also get to help a tiny bit every year.) It is almost all online, except for a week at the start and a week or two at the end in the summer. It was full before I got a chance to tell…
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Amazon Buys MGM Film Studio
An Interesting Bit of News… In a month with a lot of entertainment news, this event sort of stood out. But here is a paragraph from Jane Freidman’s newsletter called Hotsheet that I found fascinating about the purchase. (You should subscribe to the newsletter, trust me.) “The $8.45 billion acquisition includes a catalog of 17,000 TV shows and 4,000 films. The press release quotes an Amazon executive as saying, “The real financial value behind this deal is the treasure trove of IP in the deep catalog that we plan to reimagine and develop together with MGM’s talented team. It’s very exciting and provides so many opportunities for high-quality storytelling.”” You…
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LAST DAY ON THE WRITING BUNDLE
This Might Be the Best Deal In a Bundle Ever!!! And it will be gone forever shortly. First you get the Pop-Up writing class called… Dealing with Toxic People Valued at $150. You can get it and 9 writing and business books by top professional writers. All of that for exactly $15.00 Not kidding. And it is going away in a day. Yikes!! Go to Storybundle.com/writing Kris has a book in the bundle about dealing with Hollywood and I have the Writing a Novel in Half a Month book I did as blogs here. And Loren Coleman’s book on Crowdfunding for Writers is worth far more than the total $15.…
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Me Talking On Another Podcast…
Every-So-Often I Lose My Mind and Say Yes… I said yes to these guys because they are nice guys and they asked nicely and they look like they are having fun. So, of course, I talked about Heinlein’s Rules and Writing into the Dark and the Magic Bakery. It’s free and might be worth a listen if you are washing the dishes or cleaning out the cat boxes, or driving to the grocery store. I am my typical dogmatic self. EP317: Dean Wesley Smith — Plug in to your Creative Voice and Play