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Accidental Branding…
Happens to Most Writers… Pretty simple how it happens. You end up with a logo or a certain look or on a series of books. You are doing it because it looks cool and to tie your books together, which is a basic form of branding for sales. All fun and if you let it slip or change it down the road, the brand is gone. But what most writers don’t know or seldom think about is the increased value of their copyright, their trademark, their brand caused by doing something that simple. Granted, most writers worry bout how many sales they are making month-to-month and nothing about creating value…
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Telling Lies…
Professional Writers Don’t Have Writer’s Block… Can’t begin to tell you how many times I have heard that, and how many times over the decades I said it about myself. And I believed that lie I kept telling myself and others. I totally believed it, even though I had years and years at different times I fought forms of writer’s block. I just never called it “writer’s block” because my belief system was that “writer’s block” was an excuse. Uh, no. Granted, what I do is sit alone in a room and make stuff up. Not a hard thing to do, but wow when it came to writer’s block, I…
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Early Bird Discount Extended…
WRITER’S BLOCK FREEDOM Early Bird Discount… Discount now extended to Thursday, September 26th at midnight West Coast time. Why, because the discount is the difference between getting into the class and not for some. And we had a number of people ask if they could have a few extra days and when we said yes to one we wanted to make the extension for everyone. And remember, this starts on October 1st. Not very far away. WRITER’S BLOCK FREEDOM PART 1… October/November (starts October 1st) 9 weeks of classes, 8 assignments, 7 webinars. WRITER’S BLOCK FREEDOM PART 2… January/Feb (starts January 7th ) 9 weeks of classes, 8 assignments, 9…
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Last Day of Fey Kickstarter…
Ends at 7PM Thursday West Coast Time!! That’s Today!!! I love these new Fey novels with the steampunk and fantasy and magic that Kris is writing. Trust me, 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. With Steampunk. As only Kristine Kathryn Rusch can write it. THE INCIDENT AT SEREBRO ACADEMY. And Kickstarter liked us enough to give us Project We Love weeks before we launched. So cool. And this one was only 9 days long. It also has two really fun special workshops in this…
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Expectations…
One of the Big Evils… Expectations can come from about a billion places for all of us. But most of the time we don’t even know when we have let an expectation in. Sometimes we do, though, and those are so deadly so fast, it is amazing. I can’t begin to tell you how many times I have heard a writer say, I’m going to quit my day job for one year and I hope to be making a living after a year. Of course, that is flat insulting to any professional writer who has worked years and years to learn their craft and business, but we all know that…
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Time, Expectations, and Reality…
Three Topics in WRITER’S BLOCK FREEDOM… More I think about how Time, Expectations, and Reality mix, the more I realize that for me, all three are part of my writer’s block problems at the moment. Yes, as anyone who has been watching these blogs and the challenges this year, you know I am dealing with getting back up to my normal writing speed. Not being at speed is one of the hundreds of forms that Writer’s Block takes. Why can’t I just fire back up now that my shoulder is in good shape again? Why can’t I just get back into the writing chair more often? The answer, of course,…
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New Post About WRITER’S BLOCK FREEDOM
I Posted This On Thursday… Seems a lot of people missed it or saw the posts on Friday or Saturday and asked me questions. So I wanted to post this first post one more time here because Kris and I feel this is a critically important topic and doing it in two 9-week sessions with a webinar every week is the best way. And also be clear that we are skipping December. This starts on October 1st. So here is the first post again. Feel free to write me with questions. Big New Two-Part Class With Webinar!! We are going there. Right into the teeth of Writer’s Block. Kris and…
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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…