• Challenge,  On Writing,  publishing,  workshops

    Class Curriculum Part Two…

    Since HolidaySale Is Going On… Figured I would continue updating the curriculum of the courses. I still have to update the Pop-Up classes, but will do that tomorrow. The HolidaySale is half price on anything on Teachable. Classes, workshops, pop-ups, challenges, subscriptions. Just hit purchase on anything you want and put in HolidaySale code on the next page and hit “apply” to get the course at half price. So here are some of the classes with different ways to sort them. Also the new series of collection classes are below as well. ATTITUDE  FOCUSED COURSES If you are having trouble with your attitude about writing, getting to the computer, and so…

  • Challenge,  publishing,  Smiths Monthly

    Smith’s Monthly Is Back!!!

    After Three-Plus Years!! Finally, Smith’s Monthly is back!! Yes, I haven’t really been gone for over three years. Just the magazine has. The date on Issue #44 of Smith’s Monthly is May 2017. The date on this new issue #45 is January 2021. So over three years. For almost four years before that, I did an issue per month and didn’t miss. One new novel, four or five short stories, and part of a nonfiction book. Or earlier on, a serialized novel. Every month. And I enjoyed it. All those issues are listed in posts on Smith’s Monthly web site, one at a time, with contents and cover. (Many of…

  • Challenge,  On Writing,  publishing,  workshops

    Workshop Order and Breakdown…

    Workshop Curriculum 1/1/2021 I went through these back about four months ago, so with the sale going on now, I thought I would do it again so everything is clear. Today’s post is just the workshops and I’m going to divide all of them down into areas of study. And the numbers are my suggestions on the order to take these workshops because many of them build on others. (Two types of workshops are included. Regular and Classic.) All workshops and courses can be found on Teachable. Just hit “see all courses.” To get them at half price, just use the code Resolution Pop-Ups and others will be listed later.…

  • Challenge,  On Writing,  publishing,  workshops

    Course Curriculum

    Updated Because of the Sale… You can find this workshop curriculum at any point on the front page of my web site on the right under the Curriculum tag. There are a bunch of workshops, pop-ups, lectures, and other classes that I tried to put in some sort of order. If I missed something or didn’t add it in for some reason, just write me with questions. Remember, until the 8th, everything is half price on Teachable. Everything, including classes, lifetime subscriptions, everything. Full instructions and reasons for the sale are in the previous blog, but all you have to do is hit purchase and then put in the code:…

  • Challenge,  On Writing,  publishing,  workshops

    Organizing Lectures

    There are a Bunch of Them… All WMG Publishing workshops, Pop-ups, lectures, subscriptions, challenges, and classes are half price at the moment on Teachable. Just hit purchase and put in the code: SUMMERSCHOOLSALE The sale will be going for a few more days is all. And while this has been going on, I thought it might be a good time to tackle the curriculum project of helping people know what workshops, pop-ups, or lectures to take to match not only their interests, but also in what order. The first night I got the top 20 craft workshops and put them in an order. Find that here. Second night I did…

  • Challenge,  On Writing,  publishing,  workshops

    More Workshops Organized

    While the Half-Price Sale Is Happening… I figured I would continue to try to put some order on the massive numbers of workshops, lectures, pop-ups, and classes we have. A curriculum if you will. Very loose one. Very. Yesterday’s blog I did what I considered the top twenty regular and classic workshops to take if your desire is to become a better storyteller. Basically craft workshops. I am going to go back and add in Shared World Class and Year of the Cat class. Both are great on craft focused writing. And I tried to put the workshops yesterday in an order that would make sense to take them over…

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    List of Classic Workshops and Lectures

    For Those Who Grabbed the Writer Gift Box… Anyone who got the writer gift box will not only get a bunch of writing books, but a Classic Workshop and a Lecture of your choice. Happy Holidays from WMG Publishing. Instructions and links to the books will go out tomorrow morning. Below is a list of the Classic Workshops now available. Five new ones have been moved over to classic now. How to Study, Edit Yourself, Secondary Plot Lines, Think Like a Publisher, and the Business of Publishing. Included in the list of lectures to pick from are the three quarters of Tip of the Week, plus the Advanced Business Lectures…

  • Lecture Series,  On Writing,  publishing

    NEW LECTURE SERIES AND SUBSCRIPTION OFFER

    Advanced Business Lectures Now Offered… Below is not only a list of all the lectures available (25 of them), but also the six new lectures in the Advanced Business for Writers lecture series. Plus a list of planned coming lectures. (We will end up after this with 38 available lectures on writing and publishing.) After two years of not doing new lectures, we are back with a vengeance thanks to the ease of Teachable.com. Since I am going to be starting to record these Advanced Business Lectures this week, we decided to offer a special rate on them, plus a special subscription rate to all lectures and upcoming lectures. For…

  • Challenge,  Lecture Series,  On Writing,  publishing

    Questions and Lecture Announcement

    GREAT RESPONSES… First off, the response on yesterday’s question post was amazing. I really didn’t respond to any of them because I hope to do so in longer posts next week. Some of the responses require longer posts, so I’ll do the first one of those on Sunday. Thanks everyone. Great stuff for discussions. Now to the Lectures I’ve been meaning to announce the new site for the lectures and just kept forgetting. We are also going to be doing new lectures again now that they are on this new site, so watch for those announcements. Over the last six months we’ve got some great ideas from all of you…

  • Workshop Curriculum

    Workshop Curriculum 8/1/2022 I’m going to divide these down into areas of study. And the numbers are my suggestions on the order to take these workshops because many of them build on others. All workshops and courses can be found on Teachable. Just hit “see all courses.” These are regular and classic workshops. Pop-Up Classes and other types of classes will follow on craft. Then will follow business focused classes. FOUNDATION COURSES FOR CRAFT 1… Depth 2… Advanced Depth (Depth required) 3… Writing into the Dark (Depth required) 4… Teams (Depth suggested to help) 5… Killing the Critical Voice 6… Research (Depth #3) (Classic workshop…Depth required) 7… Information Flow (Classic workshop…Depth suggested)…