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An Example of Two Brands
Author Brand and Project Brand… This Poker Boy Kickstarter campaign we hope to launch next week is really pulling together some clear images of how branding looks on the surface. I have an author brand that sort of got lost for a short time, but it back now very clearly. And projects it got lost on we will be rebranding very soon. Then Poker Boy now has a clear logo and covers that will be consistent over time with cards and fantasy women. So take a look at this image of some mugs we are offering in the campaign. My author brand, Poker Boy brand and logo, and the cover…
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Workshops Starting…
Don’t Miss Some of These… IN PERSON CRAFT CLASSES… And Study Along Classes… Kris has the reading list up on the Gothic Study Along on Teachable. I have sent everyone signed up for the in-person class a letter on how to get into the Study Along to get the reading list. Two spots in the May in-person Gothic workshop. $750. May 5th-8th. Write me if interested. Also on Teachable there is the Study Along for the Gothic Workshop. And a novella add-on class if you take the in-person or Study Along class. One last thing on the In-Person. We had one person drop out of the Lifetime In-Person Subscription that…
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Workshop Updates
A Bunch of Them… Figured I would do this workshop summary after I scared everyone yesterday with managing to get through two months of the challenge. (grin) So here I go… IN PERSON CRAFT CLASSES… And Study Along Classes… Kris has the reading list up on the Gothic Study Along on Teachable. I have sent everyone signed up for the in-person class a letter on how to get into the Study Along to get the reading list. Two spots in the May Gothic workshop. $750. Four says of Kris working with you on craft. May 5th-8th. Write me if interested. Also on Teachable there is the Study Along for the…
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Not Much To Say About the Story Challenge…
I Just Manage to Work At It Every Night… Sometimes also during an afternoon. Taking me from 2 to 3 hours a day. Often in the first 45 minutes I manage around 500 words, then take a break and I get about 1,300 words an hour from there. Kris is reading a story as she has a chance. She has read about thirty or so of them. And I am using some of them to fill up the last volume of the third Marble Grant collection. (Thought I had enough without checking… so wrote some in January and some this month to fill the collection.) They should be out later…
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Still Recovering…
Very Sore Feet… But they are getting better. And I got a lot of workshop stuff and email done today, so slowly getting caught up. Story challenge just keeps going along. Giving it a focus and the story lengths are under 2,000 words, but still chugging. I will do some longer updates in the next few days on the challenge. LIFETIME EVERYTHING SUBSCRIPTION… Just three more days to get it at half price for the Lifetime Everything Subscription on Teachable. We started the sale for February but I have said almost nothing about it. This is a stunningly good deal if you plan on really working on your writing into…
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Thanks for All the Kind Thoughts…
I Really Appreciated Them… Especially as I limped around all day and took two naps. (grin) Managed to keep up the stories and do email and some assignments. I should be caught up by tomorrow. So let me tell you about a few workshops I am really proud we are doing. Workshops… Writer’s Block… It is on the WMG Writer Store We are doing a third session. If you have problems getting up to the speed you want or just not writing much at all, you can get the first two sessions of nine weeks each with webinars each week, all recorded, and then fire into the third session. It…
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Since I Am Now Writing At Pulp Speeds Again…
Just For Fun… I wanted to bring this Pulp Speed post back again just for fun for me to read again as I am firing along now for almost two months at Pulp Speeds. I figured I could use it again as well. (grin) (And yes, tomorrow I will list the story I wrote today and the one I will write tomorrow… Challenge still going fine.) (I wrote this post around 2014, then brought it forward to 2016, then 2017, and just about every year or so since, skipping 2022. Last time here was October. And this month March… I made the Pulp Speed class a regular workshop again so…
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Writing, Workshops, Podcast… Oh, My…
Busy and Fun Day… I seldom do podcasts and things like that, but it sounded like fun and it was and I will tell you when it releases. One main reason I don’t do them is that Kris and my offices are within ear-shot of each other, so I would disturb her writing. But today she planned on getting her writing done early and spending the afternoon down in the WMG office, so the runway was all clear. Story Challenge… The story today was another Detective Crunch story called “The Woman Who Had Half a Clue.” Also really fun. So all good on the challenge and I think I have…
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Ate the Elephant For a Time…
Had To Sit Down and Take Deep Breaths… You see, I have four big whiteboards on one wall of my office. They have the titles of the short stories that are in the first 50 issues of Smith’s Monthly. I stopped at Issue 50 because I ran out of room on the boards. There are 220 titles of stories written up there. 220 stories, covers an entire wall. I hope to do 365 stories this year. I happened to glance up at the wall of story titles and my mind went, “That is just 2/3rds of the number of stories you hope to write this year.” Wham!!! I went from…
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My Story A Day Challenge…
Going Okay, But… The “but” is coming from critical voice, of course. It has been a stupidly busy first two weeks of the month and I got into a bad habit right out of the gate of starting the story too late at night. Way, way too late. Problem with that is being tired I tell my creative voice to do something short, and a lot of my Marble Grant stories and Bryant Street stories are in the 2,000 word range, so even though I never plan it, I default back to them. Amazing how powerful the creative voice is. It wants me to finish a story a day, but…