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Nothing to See Here
Saturday Night and Up Too Late Talking with Writers… And I left my car at the hotel and walked back to the condo because I am used to walking and not driving and I was thinking about some writing stuff and just flat forgot. Oh, well, it will be there tomorrow. But I am having fun, learning a bunch, and excited as this class moves forward. Fun conversations at lunch as well, and fun conversation with Kevin and Rebecca at dinner, which is why I had the car in the first place. So now going to go shut my mind off, get some rest, and do it again tomorrow, all…
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Once Again the Power of a Streak
Without This Blog Streak I Never Would Have Turned on This Computer… But with this many years of never missing a day, even with doing a lot of other fun stuff today, I turned on the computer to type something here. Did it matter what I type? Nope. To hit the blog streak, the daily blog streak, it just had to be something. You know, I am alive, the streak is alive, and so on and so on. Imagine if you were doing this kind of streak with your writing, that no matter how late, how much your mind was elsewhere, you wrote 250 words a day on a streak.…
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November Workshops Starting Soon
NOVEMBER WORKSHOPS NOW AVAILABLE ON TEACHABLE. November workshops are up and available. Here is the two month schedule. December workshops will be available in about a week and the schedule for the first half of next year will be up by the middle of December. I think the workshops in November are all good ones, so check them out. Class #43… Nov 5th … Writing into the Dark Class #44… Nov 5th … Writing Fiction Sales Copy Class #46… Nov 6th … Depth in Writing Class #47… Nov 6th …Writing and Selling Short Stories Class #49… Nov 6th … Emotion Class #50… Nov 6th … Advanced Depth Class #51… Dec 3rd … Endings Class #52……
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Four New Videos in Licensing Transition
Plus the Holiday Spectacular Funded… It officially made two stretch goals on Kickstarter, but we also took money outside of Kickstarter this time because of Kickstarter’s political problems, and we ended up also hitting the third stretch goal in total. A complete success, better than we had hoped. So everyone who supported the Holiday Spectacular will get all three stretch rewards, plus the reward they picked. Surveys going out next week. And don’t worry if you missed out on the nifty idea of getting 35 holiday stories in 35 days, we will have a web page dedicated to that where you can get a subscription to the stories. Or buy…
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Fantastic New StoryBundle
How Many Worlds Can Be Saved? I set off to put this Storybundle called Saving the World together with a goal. I wanted to find as many ways as possible to save the world and as many worlds as possible to save. I figured that would be really fun for me to read and I hoped that a lot of you would feel the same. And what I was lucky enough to end up with is eight novels and two major collections of short stories, all fantastic. And fun. And on top of that, four of the books in this bundle can ONLY be found in this bundle. That’s right,…
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One Day Left…
Almost to the Second Stretch Goal… Only one day left in the Kickstarter. You get 35 original holiday stories sent to you, one per day during the holidays, plus all kinds of other great stuff. Time is running out to get in on this original and fun idea. And we are well on the way to the second stretch goal, which means more great reading. So help us hit that and get some great reading through the holiday season by some top short fiction writers. And if you want great discounts for workshops and lectures, you have just one day to get them. And trust me, after doing two Kickstarter…
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New Videos in Shared Worlds Class
Four New Videos… About the large shared worlds everyone thinks about when they think of a shared world. This class is just getting started and will last for nine months. So all the videos here at the beginning are basic stuff. But I wanted to detail out each type and level of shared world in the first month or so, and that’s what this is, four videos about the big guns, the Star Trek, Marvel, Star Wars, and so on. Not teaching you how to write for any of those. That is not what this class is about. The class is about how you can create a shared world of…
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Three Days Left In the Holiday Spectacular
GREAT STORIES AND REWARDS… Only three days left in the Kickstarter. You get 35 original holiday stories sent to you, one per day during the holidays, plus all kinds of other great stuff. Time is running out to get in on this original and fun idea. And we are well on the way to the second stretch goal, which means more great reading. So help us hit that and get some great reading through the holiday season by some top short fiction writers. And if you want great discounts for workshops and lectures, you have just three days to get them. And trust me, after doing two Kickstarter campaigns so…
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The Promised Pictures
Completed the 10K… (6.2 mile run) It wasn’t pretty, but I did it. Actually, the course turned out to be 3.1 miles uphill to start, and it turned out to be a ton warmer than I expected. All desert and concrete. So I got overheated, which for a person with my heat history, is not a good thing. And the hill made it harder for a person like me who is still too heavy. I managed to stay hydrated just fine and slowed down some to even walking and running, so didn’t hit the time I was hoping for. But finished alive and without heatstroke. Win. So here are some…
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Friday Night In The Fall…
So For Me That Means An Early Run in the Morning… In fact, up at 6:30 am or so tomorrow, three or more hours before I normally get up. And tomorrow I am running a 10K (little over six miles) instead of my normal 5k runs. Seems like all fall there are runs on the weekends. Great fun, actually. My time goal is under 70 minutes, although I would love, love, love to get it under an hour. But got a hunch I will do a little too much walking to hit that. And I am still a little too heavy. We shall see how it goes. 70 minutes is…