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Mt. Saint Helens
Forty Years Ago Today… I’m going to repost a blog here that I did one year ago about my time going through the ash of the Mt. Saint Helens’ explosion. Interesting that 40 years later, without all the ash clogging everything, I am going through another “Stay In” order because you might die if you don’t. But unlike 40 years ago when it was just some millions of people downwind that were hit, this one has the entire world locked down. And most people understand this is very real, and a few idiots do not. What was fun about the idiots back in the ash fall of 1980, they got…
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Card Sharp Silver… Day 20
Normally Would Be Finished in Twenty Days… But nope. Just sort of puttering along, no fault of the book, just too many distractions and work outside of the book and writing time. I bet most of you know this feeling exactly. I am not worried or bothered or anything by the slowness of this. Just noting it, and that every book is different from every other book in the creation process. So today I made it here around 10:30 am, early for me because I needed to go out into the wilds. So a little after eleven I headed out, masked, gloves and excessive hand sanitizer. I was way, way…
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Card Sharp Silver… Day 19
No Day Is The Same… It would certainly help if I could settle into some sort of routine, where I knew I could get a set amount of exercise and a set amount of writing done. Oh, that would be heaven. And I am working toward that. But at the moment, still a lot happening, so no routine just yet. Soon. So here is how the day went. Managed to get to this computer to do some email around noon, then a little before one I left to go meet a leasing agent and get the keys to WMG Publishing’s new Vegas office. Inspections and other stuff took some time,…
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Card Sharp Silver… Day 18
One Month Since Day Seventeen… Wow, just as all of us had a crazy last month, mine was no different. Some people have been working harder than ever with this virus, others are laid off and killing time or trying to focus. I have been in the bunch working harder than I can remember. But now, thankfully, returning to my normal level of freelance work, so I started a new short story series in the last few days and today got back to writing on the Cave Creek novel. So as I did for the first seventeen days on this, I will detail out the general nature of my day…
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Kris’s Birthday Party Reminder
You Are All Invited… And how to attend? Send Kris a birthday card. That way in this crazy time of isolation, Kris can feel that you are all there at this wonderful party. I will supply the cake, more than enough (last year Kris and I ate on the cake for a week.) So her birthday is June 4th, exactly three weeks from today. No gifts, nothing else but a signed birthday card. Or some way to know who is attending on the card. Trust me, photos and recordings will happen, because, after all, that is this new world. So send a card to join the party. Full information two…
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Some Misc. Stuff
A Few Questions I Got Today… What made me think of a lot of people sending Kris birthday cards? Actually, it was thinking about how bummed I was about Kris not being able to have a lot of her friends around her on her 60th birthday. That’s a special day. But nothing at all I could do to change that fact this year. Then it struck me that if friends sent cards, I could stand the cards up on the table, and even though the friends were not there, they would be represented at the party. And that would be fun. And Kris was touched by the idea and likes…
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Kris’s Birthday Party
On June 4th Kris Turns 60… And wow were we going to have a party for her. But, as you may have guessed, past tense on that party. We will do it next year now, as many of you are doing as well for birthdays. But I had an idea. You see, Kris loves cards. Not those electronic type, but real paper birthday cards. So with her permission (since she had decided she didn’t want to do anything instead… but I promise you, that is not happening on a 60th birthday), I figured it would be really, really cool to have a party anyway, a sort of virtual party, not…
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Summer Learning Sale Extended to Sunday
By Request of a Number of Writers… We have extended the Summer Learning Half Price Sale. Every WMG Publishing Workshop, Lecture, Pop-Up, Class, or Subscription on Teachable is HALF PRICE! That’s right, on anything available on Teachable right now, (hit all courses to see everything) just use the code below and get it half price. Yes, that includes the new workshop PUBLISHING 101 and the new Pop-Up #20 How to Work from Home. So, stock up on workshops and lectures to get you through the summer. Or even grab one of the Lifetime Workshop Subscriptions for half price. The code to get anything on WMG’s Teachable at half price until…
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Licensing Transition Class Extended One Year
Now Two Years Plus Long… Thanks to this virus, the Licensing Expo was postponed to first August, now to May 2021. The Licensing Transition class was supposed to work on all aspects of licensing of IP up and through the May Licensing Expo this year, but now that the Expo has been pushed back one year, we’re just going to keep going on the Licensing Transition class until a month after the Expo in 2021. So wow is this going to be a great deal for the money. And it is still open to sign up. A lot of videos over the last year have already been posted, plus one…
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New Pop-Up Available
How to Work From Home… That is now Pop-Up #20. Kris and I have had this one on the Pop-Up list for a while and it finally dawned on us to get it up now, while so many writers are struggling to work from home. This is not only for this pandemic, but for writers and other professionals looking at working from home in the future. How to get organized, time management, motivation, and problems. Lots of stuff, plus, like all Pop-Ups, a story prompt as well. And yes, you can get it half price in the Summer Learning Sale for two more days. And I loaded it into the…