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2,024 Words Per Day in 2024…
2024 Challenge Challenge yourself to average 2,024 words per day for the entire year of 2024. These would need to be consumable words. What are “consumable” words? — Any fiction of any type (no requirement to publish during the challenge time) — Any nonfiction that others will consume such as blogs, introductions to collections things like that. — emails and comments on Facebook or blogs do NOT count. No genre limitations. Rules of Turn-In 1… Every month (or more often if it helps you) you must send me an email giving me your word count. I do not want to know what you are writing, just how much. The cost…
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The Fresh Start Challenge With Kris…
A Challenge with Kris for the Month of January… The challenge is to write as many consumable words from Monday, January 1st through Wednesday, January 31st 2024 as Kris writes. The goal is to get writing and focused on the writing for the month of January. What are “consumable” words? — Any fiction of any type (no requirement to publish during the challenge time) — Any nonfiction that others will consume such as blogs, introductions to collections things like that. You can NOT count emails and comments on Facebook and other social media or comments on blogs. They do NOT count. No genre limitations. Rules 1… Every day Kris will…
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Step Three… Clean Up and Plan…
Two Things to Get Ready to Go… Cleaning Up… Stunning how much just basic stuff gets forgotten or left behind as a year goes on. Some of my most brilliant organization plans at the start of any year are often in tatters by the end. For me, this year was no exception. For some reason, while I was in a sling, my writing computer just decided to alphabetize all my files. Yeah, that was a shock. So the last two nights I have been cleaning up my writing space, putting notes in order, and getting files back with their series. Oh, joy, but by the 1st I will be rolling…
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Step Two… Ramp Up
Starting From Zero Seldom Works… For any of us, no matter how much practice and years we have under our fingers. And I know, I have tried to just start writing at full speed. Many times, actually. Most of the time it fails in frustration or at best turns into a ramp-up I should have done earlier. How much time does it take to ramp into writing, get comfortable, after taking some time off? Got a hunch that number changes with each person, but honestly, two or three days at most for me and most other writers I know. For me, I sit down (after I have everything organized… another…
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Creative Survival… New 52 Week Class
Kris and I Are Really Excited About the New Class…. Same format at Bite-Sized Copyright and The Decade Ahead classes. 4 videos every Monday. Basically what we were doing with Bite-Sized Copyright and The Decade Ahead classes were helping writers with creative survival. And we both loved those two classes and one day over lunch I asked Kris what she thought would be a possible way to continue them. She pointed out that one had been organized on copyright, which all writers need to survive and make money, and the other had been focused on just surviving ten years out. And that we had left out a ton of stuff…
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Targeted Sale to Get Ready for 2024!
Just Trying To Help… At WMG Publishing, we now only do workshop sales when we start a new Shopify store. But now that we have four Shopify stores, we have no set time in 2024 to start a new one. Going to let the first stores just build. So no workshop sale. But we got talking and we figured that for a few targeted classes to help writers through 2024, we could do a targeted sale. This is not for all the Teachable classes, just a few targeted things. We have never done this before, but if we figure it helps a few writers going into the new year, it…
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Kris and Cheeps Baking…
Actually Mostly Kris… But Cheeps stayed close the entire time as moral support. And he likes the smell of pumpkin pie and pumpkin bread, even though he will never get any of it. Kris got her writing done today, ran three miles, cooked dinner, and then made four pumpkin pies and two loaves of pumpkin bread. Wow, what a day. Tomorrow I cook turkey. Have a great holiday, everyone…
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Sometimes Just Take a Day Off…
So It Is Christmas Eve… I have no plans to take any time away from my office, mostly because after this last fall, I am just so far behind, and I want to be ready to get writing solidly into the new year. But even with that, I watched a holiday movie tonight before heading up here again. I doubt that Kris will take any time off either. She has sent out six updates on her challenge Sprint to 2024 and she is really enjoying the writing. But as two professional writers, we will spend some holiday time together, including a turkey meal (sort of taking the place of our…
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Filler Post On This Friday…
Just to Keep the Streak Going… A lot of years of daily posts now. So tonight a picture of me and the boys taking a nap on a rainy evening in Las Vegas. They never cuddle with me like that, so I felt honored.
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How Writer’s Fail… How To Avoid Some Failures…
A Writing Book By Kris… How Writers Fail… Analysis and Solutions by Kristine Kathryn Rusch. I know a lot of you liked the post about failure must be an option in writing. So to help on that topic, I would highly suggest that as you plan to restart and get going in 2024, you grab this book. This a blunt, straight-forward book that might save your career or at least help you head off some really, really ugly bumps in the road in the coming year. It is focused at indie writers. (If you are headed toward traditional publishing, you have already failed.) Here is the sales copy… “Everyone fails…