• Challenge,  On Writing,  publishing

    Buying Stories For Pulphouse Fiction Magazine

    I Have Been Having a Blast This Week… Over the last month or more I read over 1.2 million words of really amazingly good short fiction across all genres. And I got to talk in some fashion or another about every story this week. Tomorrow is the next-to-last day and again I get a chance to buy more stories for Pulphouse Fiction Magazine. I actually almost have what I wanted for the second full year of the magazine. Wonderful stuff! (And no, the magazine is not open for submissions. This is the anthology workshop I am talking about.) So if I have seemed a little scattered this week, that was…

  • Challenge,  On Writing,  publishing

    Got To Be Quick Again Tonight

    First Things First… I want to thank everyone who supported our North by Northwest Bookstore Kickstarter. Wonderful success and we are already started on the remodeling. It will take a few weeks for Kickstarter to do its thing, then we will send out surveys to all the wonderful backers. If you backed a workshop, and would like to take one in March, write me. Thank you, everyone! —————- This weekend I will be sending out the information to those signed up on the March regular workshops. All workshops have openings. Sign up directly through Teachable or if you have a credit, write me. https://wmg-publishing-workshops-and-lectures.teachable.com Class #25… Mar 6th … Depth #3:…

  • Challenge,  On Writing,  publishing

    Last 20 Hours!!

    Thank you, Everyone!… North By Northwest Kickstarter… Where you can get discounted workshops and lectures or give books to your local library or school system anywhere in the country. REMEMBER…  if you get a regular workshop through the Kickstarter, you also get a classic workshop for free. $450 value for only $250. (And yes, you can get more than one. Get as many as you want, actually. Just increase the pledge by $250 per workshop.) And you can also get a discounted lifetime subscription to all of the WMG Lectures now available and any new ones coming. But what I love about this project is the ability to help out…

  • Challenge,  On Writing,  publishing

    Gaining On The Second Stretch Goal. 44 Hours Left!!

    Thank you, Everyone! We Are Gaining On It…  North By Northwest Kickstarter… Where you can get discounted workshops and lectures or give books to your local library or school system anywhere in the country. We made our first stretch goal. So cool! And on the way toward the second one. REMEMBER…  if you get a regular workshop through the Kickstarter, you also get a classic workshop for free. $450 value for only $250. (And yes, you can get more than one. Get as many as you want, actually. Just increase the pledge by $250 per workshop.) And you can also get a discounted lifetime subscription to all of the WMG…

  • Challenge,  On Writing,  publishing

    Two Days Left… We Made the First Stretch Goal!!

    Thank you, Everyone!  North By Northwest Kickstarter… Where you can get discounted workshops and lectures or give books to your local library or school system anywhere in the country. We made our first stretch goal. So cool! And if you get a regular workshop through the Kickstarter, you also get a classic workshop for free. But what I love about this project is the ability to help out your local school or library. So Two Days!! Don’t miss this one. Check it out right here… ————- And yes, I am still working on my 67 challenge. Slow at the moment which was completely expected when I set this up. I…

  • Challenge,  On Writing,  publishing

    Three Days Left

    North By Northwest Kickstarter… Where you can get discounted workshops and lectures or give books to your local library or school system anywhere in the country. We are within $200 of our stretch goal. And if you get a regular workshop through the Kickstarter, you also get a classic workshop for free. But what I love about this project is the ability to help out your local school or library. So Three Days!! Don’t miss this one. Check it out right here… And on that note, one more time…how about the nifty video we have on the site about the project and our bookstore. I was in there a lot…

  • Challenge,  On Writing,  publishing

    Five Days Left

    On the North by Northwest Kickstarter… We are within $700 of our stretch goal. And if you get a regular workshop through the Kickstarter, you also get a classic workshop for free. But what I love about this project is the ability to help out your local school or library. So Five Days!! Don’t miss this one. Check it out right here… And on that note, how about a nifty and very short video about the Kickstarter nearing our stretch goal? (grin)    

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    More Misc. Stuff Once Again

    A Bunch Of It, Actually… Some of you know I have been blogging every day without missing a day for numbers of years. I just thought I would point out that I have been doing this for almost 1,700 straight days. Almost there. If I remember, I will make note of the passing… Next, a reminder… about the North by Northwest Kickstarter. We have added some nifty rewards and one major one that is not there yet, but it is official. Here is is… Classic Workshops Added as a Bonus… That’s right. If you get a workshop credit through the Kickstarter we have going for our bookstore, you will also…

  • On Writing,  publishing

    A Bunch of Stuff

    You Ever Wondered What Happened To?… For example, I started this book here on the blog about Self Sabotage. Basically it was subtitled “Fiction Writers and the Art of Self Sabotage.” I had a decent first chapter on it. Then I wrote the second chapter and the third chapter and got about halfway through the fourth chapter, intending to put the chapters up as blog posts when I realized that Debbie Downer didn’t begin to describe what I was writing. I like being encouraging to writers because we all face the same basic fears and problems along this fiction-writing road. But in those chapters I wasn’t being positive. Not in…

  • Challenge,  On Writing,  publishing,  workshops

    Fun Reading Time

    Great Stories and Stuff… I am at a fun time I go through every year. I have a massive number of really good short stories to read for the anthology workshop. I actually look forward to this every year, to be honest. I am also finishing up the last notes on the novel challenge and will get those back in the next day or so to everyone in the last novel challenge. So really fun writing there as well. So having fun reading. Not as much fun as writing, but still great fun. And also writing the interstitials for Fiction River: Hard Choices. That’s great fun looking back over those…