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Classic Workshops
And Two December Specials!!! All seven of the new classic workshops are now up and available. Classic workshops are workshops that have been moved from regular workshops to make more room and are half the original price ($150). But you do not turn in the assignments, just do them for yourself at your own pace. We now have 29 Classic Workshops available. And seven of them are newly in Classic status. So, for only the month of December, we put all seven in a bundle and reduced the price. You can still buy them one-at-a-time on Teachable for $150 each. But you can also get all seven in a bundle,…
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Cat Troubles Posting
Darned Near Impossible… To Write with a 19 pound cat wanting to cuddle on your lap. Gavin decided that he either wanted to be on my lap or force me to give up and go to bed. All 19 plus pounds of the big lug. So here are two pictures I managed to get of him in the middle of his cuddle campaign. As I type this now, he is making rude bathing noises under my chair. Maybe it is time to go to bed and let the cat win.
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Fun Holiday
With Running and Great Food and Friends… Started the day off getting up in the middle of my night, putting in the turkey to cook, picking up Steph and Val at 7 am and all four of us heading out to Summerlin for a Turkey Rock Fun Run. It was a cold but beautiful morning, sunny and no sign of the coming storm at all. So I kicked up to the 10K (6.2 miles) and didn’t set any records, but I did finish and got second in my old gomer age group. (Pictures below.) Then home to cook (yes, I cooked the basics of the dinner) and Chris and Steve…
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New Novel Out
Heads Up: A Cold Poker Gang Mystery… That’s right, I almost never announce one of my books here, but a lot of people have asked me when the next Cold Poker Gang novel will be out, so it published yesterday. There, I announced one of my own books. Don’t expect me to do that much this next year. I am gaining speed again so will publish too many things to do that. However, I will have a writing web site that will be different and I will announce that around the first of the year. There you can track what I am publishing. So anyhow, here is the sales copy…
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December Workshops
Starting In One Week… First off, those of you got the special How to Write a Holiday Story workshop will be getting a letter from me later this week with the ability to pick which of the two sessions (December or January) you want to take and a code for both. So hold on for that. December session will start on Tuesday. The regular December workshops also start on Tuesday and here is the list. Class #51… Dec 3rd … Endings Class #52… Dec 3rd … Attitude Class #54… Dec 3rd … Speed Class #55… Dec 3rd … Teams in Fiction Class #56… Dec 4th … Depth in Writing Class #59… Dec 4th… Information Flow…
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Stay Safe Out There
Two Major Storms… Are going to be rolling across the country this week, making a mess of travel. And so many people are going to think it will be life or death if they don’t get to where they are headed. And it really will, in many sad instances, become death or injury on bad roads. Or waiting for days in airports, under stress that will do your body no good at all. Or being stuck without a way home for days and days. Ughh. Holidays like this one here in the States this week are supposed to be fun things. But with major storms threatening to make a mess…
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Well, That Was Fun…
Actually the Run Was Fun… Then I got home and couldn’t load the first assignment to the Anthology workshop group list. So after giving it some time and a dozen different tries, I created an entire new workshop on Teachable that no one could see but the people I sent direct links to it. And I put the first assignment in the anthology workshop there. Did a cover for it and everything. And just about as I was about to start emailing everyone in the workshop with the code, I tried one more time and ended up loading the assignment. So if anyone in the anthology workshop has not gotten…
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Anthology Workshop Starting Up
Yup, the Workshop That Will Happen In February… … Is starting Sunday evening, when I send out the first assignment to the writers. A short story per week for three weeks, then some weeks off for the holidays, then three more weeks of a short story per week. So if you are signed up for the anthology workshop, get ready to write. (grin) I love this workshop more than almost anything we do. And I hope to be completely caught up on the Great Challenge stories in this next week before the anthology stories come in. And I have seven workshops to move over to Classic Status this week. The…
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Stupidly Slow Reading
Because the Writers Are So Good… And they keep pulling me into the stories, forcing me to enjoy them and read all the way to the end. (grin) In case you are wondering what that is all about, on some of the writers in the Great Challenge, I am stupidly behind in my reading. Way, way behind, but the writers who have been working on the challenge for a time, are getting darned good, pulling me into stories. So it is taking time and I am enjoying it and I have to move from the computer every thirty minutes for my eye, so taking even longer. But I will get…
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New Videos In Shared World Class
Plus the First Assignment… There will be numbers of assignments and stories to write over the months of this Shared World class. Going to be great fun, so any of you in the class, make sure you find time in the next few days to take a look. The assignment isn’t due until the 15th, but it will take some time to do correctly. And for those of you thinking about taking the class, I will shut it down on the 8th of December. Held it open longer than I had planned because a few people asked. So if interested, don’t delay and miss it. I will have new videos…