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Romance Workshop Study Along
Just About the Last Possible Moment to Join… There is a reading list with this Romance Workshop Study Along. The workshop is in Las Vegas on the 20th-24th of September and has been full for almost a year. But there is still a little room in the Study Along which is online. You will write stories, listen to Kris talk about the reading list books, and listen to lectures from me about what Kris is teaching that weekend here in Vegas. (I read the stories you turn in.) So, if you want into this How to Write Romance Fiction Study Along online course, you got to act fast or you…
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Writing Flash Fiction
Pop-Up #12 Now Available… How to Write Successful Flash Fiction… We tried to come up with a way to make this into a full workshop, but just not enough. But it fit perfectly in a Pop-Up. And the fun story prompt on this one is to see if you can write a piece of flash fiction for Pulphouse Fiction Magazine. That’s right, I buy flash fiction at Pulphouse, but never much see it. So for this one Pop-Up, inside the deadline of the Pop-Up, if you write a piece of flash fiction that I think fits Pulphouse, I will make you an offer. Only one chance, one story per person,…
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The Power of a Streak
Seven Years Without A Miss… Blog post every day, 365 days a year for 7 full years. 2,555 days. No misses. Going for another year. I have at the moment a bunch of lectures to finish on myths, a book on Trademark to post here chapter-by-chapter, a bunch more monthly workshops to talk about, and some silly stuff. So I’m going forward. But I had to nod at today as it went past. Sickness, travel, moving, building a business, internet outages, and a half-billion novels (or some people think I wrote that many), I never missed a day. I was even in the hospital at one point. Never missed. And…
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Random Signs
A Week Or So Ago… On my way back on Interstate 70 from Colorado into Utah from being a guest lecturer with Kevin J. Anderson’s class at Western Colorado University, I saw three signs in the space of a quarter mile or so. It was on top of one of those 8,000-foot-plus mountain passes. The signs were so weird I had to call Kris and have her write them down for me before I spaced them. First sign… TRAIL THROUGH TIME And there was an arrow to the left. Very quickly after that sign, there was another simple sign… EAGLES ON THE HIGHWAY Okay??? I knew I was up high,…
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Flat Amazing Workshop
Business Master Class in October 2019… I will talk more about it once everything is completely finalized, but wow I thought the last two years took indie business to a new level, this workshop in October will jump that up a long ways. The more we finalize all the details, the more excited I get. If interested, still room to jump in. Just write me. And follow this space for details. Lifetime Subscription to Lectures… This subscription is now the second best thing we offer. Over forty-some lectures up there and now we are adding in another twenty lectures on myths of writing and publishing. Five new ones are up…
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Quick Afternoon Post
WMG Publishing Master Business Class… Hotel information sent over the list. So check that and get your room if you are signed up. It is really the best all around to be in the room block for the workshop. Once we fill the room block, everyone gets more discounts and a bunch of free stuff. I will be sending out more invites shortly to the Master Class group list for those who are signed up, but not on that list yet. So far here are the guests I can think of off the top of my head… Mark Leslie from D2D will be there. Also a major editor and writer.…
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The Myths of Fiction Writing Lectures
Fiction Writing Myths Lecture Series… The first five lectures on the myths of fiction writing are now available on Teachable.com. There will be twenty lectures total, twenty different myths in four different lecture bundles. This first bundle of five lectures we are calling Creation. There will be three other bundles of five lectures each, totally twenty different lectures of nine or so videos each lecture. (They will appear as I get them recorded.) In other words, each bundle of five lectures has around 45 videos. Each lecture will have nine questions we ask about each myth. The nine questions for each myth are: — What is the origin of the…
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Before Something Fun Tomorrow
I Wanted to Make Sure I Had Everything Announced… Not kidding, got a nifty new thing to announce tomorrow that I have mentioned a few times in passing. It is on myths. The lecture lifetime subscribers are going to be really happy. (grin) But first, I wanted to update a few other things. —– ASK KRIS ANYTHING still has spots open, but they will close off shortly. She was only going to do this for one year and she only has the six-month option left open on Teachable. So don’t miss getting a chance to sign up and ask Kris anything you like for a hour a month on a…
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New Pop-Up on Thinking Big
Pop-Up #11 Available… This one is on how fiction writers need to learn how to think big, dream big, plan big. And how to do it. It’s a good one. And it has a really fun short story prompt with it. (Due date only just over a week or so off.) Get it on Teachable.com All the previous Pop-Ups, #1-10 are available still in the bundles of five or ten. (Normally each Pop-Up is $150 each, but in the bundles they are cheaper.) Each one is from 12-15 videos on the topic, plus a short story prompt. You can only turn in the #11 short story to me, since the…
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Day Job Thinking
DAY-JOB THINKING VS LONG-TERM THINKING (I first published this post back in 2015 or so. Had a couple of conversations that reminded me of it, so I went looking, updated it, and put it here on this fine Friday evening.) Day-Job Thinking goes like this: I need a certain amount of money to make my bills this month and a day job gives it to me in a “secure” fashion. Nothing at all wrong with that thinking. Nothing. We all have to live and make bills and eat and all those sorts of things. This is survival thinking, folks, plain and simple. So again, nothing wrong with that kind of…