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Writer’s Block Classes Might Be Great Ones!
Getting Some Great Letters and Questions… I hope I am answering the questions all okay. And since the classes start on Tuesday the 1st, in just two weeks from Tuesday, Kris and I talked about the classes at a wonderful lunch today at our favorite diner, Black and Blue Diner. We will do this for a few lunches and then really start organizing everything in a manner than can be taught. And that will help everyone talking the class. It has became clear to both Kris and me that the two classes are going to be major learning and also a lot of fun. They are really going to be…
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Increasing Your Fiction Writing Production…
That Should Be the Subtitle… WRITER’S BLOCK FREEDOM: How to Increase Your Fiction Writing Production… I have always felt that using the term “Writer’s Block” was negative. And when Kris and I designed the class we announced on yesterday’s blog, we intend it to be a way to help writer’s increase their fiction writing production. Often different factors (loosely called Writer’s Block) take your writing down to a trickle or to zero. Right now I am fighting a number of factors that have me writing, as Mike Resnick said once to me, at a speed that feels like it is under water. Mostly just not making the time yet to…
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WRITER’S BLOCK FREEDOM
Big New Two-Part Class With Webinar!! We are going there. Right into the teeth of Writer’s Block. Kris and I sat down a couple days ago over lunch and started talking about, and writing down, the types of writer’s blocks we have fought through or seen others fight. We defined the term “writer’s block” as something that causes writers to not write as much fiction as they want, or at slower speeds, or without fun, or in worse cases, not at all. (You writing at 400 words per hour, that is a form of writer’s block. Can’t finish stories… writer’s block. Dealing with family issues or job issues and feel…
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Special Workshops
Had a Couple Questions… About the two special workshops… And yes they are similar to what we have done before. We know that. The FANTASY THRILLER was a class we did in-person here in Las Vegas, taught by Kris. Very different format. This special FANTASY THRILLER class will be three weeks and taught by me. Should be very different and very few people should have crossed over from that in-person class a few years back. We also did a special workshop called WRITING STEAMPUNK AND FANTASY. That was a few years back on a Fey Kickstarter. This one we wanted to focus on just WRITING STEAMPUNK, without adding in the…
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Fey Kickstarter Is Live!!!
9 Days Long!! I love these new Fey novels with the steampunk and fantasy and magic. And, of course, the Fey. Serebro Academy: A New Fey Novel about an invasion of the Fey at Serebro Academy will keep you turning pages into the night . Check it out. A fantasy thriller. THE INCIDENT AT SEREBRO ACADEMY. And Kickstarter likes us enough to give us Project We Love weeks before we launch. So cool. And really fun special workshops in this one. How to Write Steampunk and How to Write a Fantasy Thriller. You can only get the two workshops during the nine days of this campaign, so jump in quick.…
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FEY KICKSTARTER Launches At Noon Tuesday…
West Coast Time…. I love these new Fey novels with the steampunk and fantasy and magic. And, of course, the Fey. Serebro Academy: A New Fey Novel about an invasion of the Fey at Serebro Academy will keep you turning pages into the night . Check it out. A fantasy thriller. And Kickstarter likes us enough to give us Project We Love weeks before we launch. So cool. And really fun special workshops in this one. How to Write Steampunk and How to Write a Fantasy Thriller. You can only get the two workshops during the nine days of this campaign, so jump in quick. Also for the nine days,…
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Last Post Had Great Comments…
Read the Comments and Feel Free to Add in… The idea of actually addressing the deep issues with writer’s block for writers certainly has both Kris and I excited. It won’t be easy if we decide to do it, but it will be challenging. And to be honest, I am looking forward to doing the classes because I want to make sure I have cleaned out the lingering issues from the eyes, shoulder, and business stuff. I want to get back up to my old speed sooner rather than later. And weirdly enough, I am dealing with aging issues, not in my body or hands or anywhere, but in my…
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Writer’s Block
So Many Kinds and Reasons… So many reasons why writers are either stopped or have trouble writing. That all falls into a general pool called “Writer’s Block.” Now many of you know, I have hated the term “Writer’s Block” because it so feels like a made-up thing to easily identify what could be a different major problem, or a number of minor ones. And I have worked for decades now on helping writers get past reasons they are not writing without giving it a name. And so has Kris. But this last year or so Kris has finally got me past my hatred of the term and we have been…
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New Fey Novel Kickstarter Launches Tuesday at Noon!!
Kickstarter Launches September 10th… Noon West Coast Time I love these new Fey novels with the steampunk and fantasy and magic. And, of course, the Fey. Serebro Academy: A New Fey Novel about an invasion of the Fey at Serebro Academy will keep you turning pages into the night . Check it out. A fantasy thriller. And Kickstarter likes us enough to give us Project We Love weeks before we launch. So cool. And really fun special workshops in this one. How to Write Steampunk and How to Write a Fantasy Thriller. You can only get the two workshops during the nine days of this campaign, so jump in quick.…
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Classic Plus Prepare Ahead Classes
This Time Writing For PULPHOUSE FICTION MAGAZINE!! Last spring, to get the writers ready for the Anthology workshop and to help them understand what the book editor’s at the anthology workshop wanted, we did a series of Prepare Ahead classes on the WMG Writer Store. Each class had a interview by the book editor, guidelines, and ten videos about how to write short stories for that specific sub-genre. Lots and lots of good information. And then the writers wrote for the anthology. I was reading for Pulphouse Fiction Magazine at the Anthology Workshop, but the book editors had first choice of a story written for them. I still bought 7…