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A Happy Holidays Gift From WMG Publishing
Actually, Two Gifts… WMG Publishing this year, for the very first time in the almost ten year history of the company, is doing two special holiday reading mystery boxes. Both have over $250 in value of books for $50.00. (Yup, I said that.) The Writer Gift Box has a lecture, a classic workshop, and 12 different writing books in it. All for $50.00 (just the lecture and the classic workshop are worth $200 alone. Person who gets the box gets to pick the choice of classic workshop or lecture.) The Holiday Gift Box includes 40 ebooks (novels, novellas, short-story collections, magazines, boxed sets, bundles, and a sampling of something from each…
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All Kinds of Fun Stuff, So A Summary
Before A Lot of It Goes Away… — Last Day to Buy Workshop Credits for the discounted rate of $250 each. Contact me if interested. Closes today. — Pop-Up #1 is now live and available. Basically a talk about Julie Schwartz, Len Wein, and Stan Lee, three of the great writer/editors in comic books. We were friends with Julie and Len, so these videos are stories about the people, as well as a few lessons involved. Plus you can write a short story to an assignment and Kris and I will read it and give you comments. This will only be up for under two weeks. Cost is $150.00. Get…
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Recovered Enough
For a 5K Fun Run… Some of you may have missed that last Saturday during a 5K run at the Rock&Roll even here in Las Vegas, I had a really bad fall in the dark while moving fairly fast. Turned out I cracked a couple ribs and a shoulder and bruised a hip when I hit the concrete and rolled. I finished the 5K, blood and all. So what did I do then? I ran/walked a half marathon the next day (13.1 miles). I had been aiming at that run along The Strip for a long time and wasn’t going to miss it, no matter how injured. And I finished…
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Pop-Up Series Is Great Fun
The First One Goes Up Sunday Evening… Kris and I put together a bunch of stories about our friends Julius Schwartz and Len Wein, and some thoughts about Stan Lee. That is the first Pop-Up. Second one is about bookstores and the third about short romance fiction. We’re going to have a blast with the format because it allows us to do all kinds of things that don’t fit into a regular workshop or lecture format. Plus we get to read a bunch of short stories, which will be fun. Interested, details in the previous post and you can sign up on Teachable. We have deals that if you buy…
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Pop-Up Topics Now Available
First One Launches Later Today!… The Pop-Up. Over the last number of years, topics and fun things had come up that Kris and I wanted to talk about, but we had had no structure to do so. But now we do with these Pop-Ups. These Pop-Up topics will just appear when something strikes us. No regular order or timing, but we hope to do more than one per month at least. In fact, the first three will all appear one per week every Saturday, with the first one in a few hours today. Each Pop-Up will consist of from 10 to 20 videos on the topic. Maybe some extra stuff…
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Workshop Special Credit Sale Ending
Workshop Credit Sale Ends Monday. Every year we do this for a week or so, giving those who did not get part of the Kickstarter in Setpember a chance to buy workshop credits for $250. (Same price as in the Kickstarter.) Normally $300. You can buy as many as you want and the credits never expire. You can use them when you want for any regular workshop or two classic workshops. To buy the credits, just write me directly and I will tell you how to go through Paypal. To use a purchased credit, you write me and tell me which workshop and I simply send you a code to…
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A Rewriting Metaphor
To Explain Yet Another Reason Why Rewriting Is Silly… Say your goal is to walk across the United States. About 2,800 miles. So say your writing career (in a modern world) lasts over forty years like mine and gets you 280 books written. Got to make the numbers round for this metaphor. (grin) So every 100 miles is a novel in your hike across the United States. So you set off walking on your novel career and get to the end of your first hundred miles of walking. Nifty. You have completed a novel. Along the way you have seen some beautiful country, met some people, had some adventures, got…
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December Workshops Described
Figured It Was Time… So below is the list of the 12 regular workshops offered in December and following that a description of each. They are all now available and you can sign up for any of these on Teachable.com or if you have a workshop credit, write me. This is a great list of workshops for December. And this is less than half of the regular workshops we offer, not counting the Classic and the Futures workshops and Strengths. That’s why we offer a lifetime subscription to all workshops. (grin) DECEMBER ONLINE WORKSHOPS NOW AVAILABLE Class #61… Dec 4th … How to Study Writing Class #62… Dec 4th … Endings…
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A Question I Got
And My Answer… I deleted the question and my response and decided to answer it here so the author is not seemingly attacked by me. The author’s only fault is a massive belief in myths. So no point in me getting personal. So here is the author’s question in general. The author had a large (400 plus page book) that was in 4th draft. The author wanted to know if we had a workshop that would help him make the next rewrite/polish/edit draft better. Yes, someone actually asked me that question. Here is my response: I’m afraid not a one of our workshops will help you at that stage. You…
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“You Go To Them” Negotiation Lecture Started
I Hope… Teachable seems to be having a little issue this evening, so I hope all the videos are loaded correctly. If not, I will fix it in the morning. But this is the second in the series of Negotiations lectures which include webinars. You need to go through the first one, which is “They Come To You” before you can take the second one. You can get to them on Teachable.com. Get the bundle of all three to save a few bucks. So those of you signed up, there is a question for you that is due later in the week. Webinar is Sunday. UPDATE: Teachable got it all…