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Ticking Clocks…
Two Great Deals Expire Tuesday Evening… First off, for only one thing, the Lifetime Everything Subscription, we are doing a Memorial Day Sale. (It is Memorial Day here in the States on Monday.) Until Tuesday Evening, the LIFETIME EVERYTHING SUBSCRIPTION that is normally $10,000 is 60% off. That’s right… $60%… That means you can get EVERYTHING on WMG Teachable for $4,000. All 600 or so classes that are there now, plus all the new stuff coming. (Actually more new stuff coming tonight.) Just click on the LIFETIME EVERYTHING SUBSCRIPTION on WMG Teachable and then hit purchase and on the next page put in the code MemorialDaySale And hit apply and…
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MEMORIAL DAY SALE…
LIFETIME EVERYTHING SUBSCRIPTION Sale For only one thing, the Lifetime Everything Subscription, we are doing a Memorial Day Sale. (It is Memorial Day here in the States on Monday.) Until Tuesday Evening, the LIFETIME EVERYTHING SUBSCRIPTION that is normally $10,000 is 60% off. That’s right… $60%… That means you can get EVERYTHING on WMG Teachable for $4,000. All 600 or so classes that are there now, plus all the new stuff coming. (Actually more new stuff coming tonight.) Just click on the LIFETIME EVERYTHING SUBSCRIPTION on WMG Teachable and then hit purchase and on the next page put in the code MemorialDaySale And hit apply and the price will be…
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SUPER GREAT CHALLENGES Questions
And Yes… I Will Be Getting Back to Advanced Magic Bakery… As soon as my brain returns from the Licensing Expo this last week. As I expected, I am beat up, but really happy with the way the Expo went for us. I will talk more about it all in the future with what I can talk about. But some fantastic connections and ideas and possible licenses. Great fun and tiring. But right now there are two days left on the Early Bird discount on the five new SUPER GREAT CHALLENGES. Here are some questions I have been getting about the new challenges… — If you miss, you get the…
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SUPER GREAT KICKSTARTER CHALLENGE…
The Super Great Kickstarter Challenge… Yes, we went there because, honestly, we were asked and honestly, a few of us spent some time today trying to figure out what was a good number of Kickstarters a year for a writer with a day job. So we all came up with the number five. More than one every quarter. Here is how we figured the time. Two weeks to get most of the parts together for a campaign. Two weeks to get the campaign approved by Kickstarter and promote it ahead. Two weeks (17) days for the campaign. Four weeks to fulfill. That’s about 10 weeks. So five per year would…
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Some Hints on the Super Great Challenges
THESE HINTS CAN APPLY CHALLENGE OR NOT… Those of you who are thinking of going for the $10,000 Lifetime Everything Subscription by having a fantastic year writing and publishing, or those of you who are just wanting to streamline a fantastic year writing, let me give you some hints to help out. Hint #1… Plan your writing hours to be as consistent as possible each week. Set a time each day and hit it. Hint #2… If you need 5,000 words a week, plan to do 7,500 words. You can always use the extra words the following week. But if you only plan exactly what you need and things miss…
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Write Stuff Story Bundle Just Went Live!!
THE WRITE STUFF STORY BUNDLE 2025 Kris put together a great bundle this year. Check it out at www.storybundle.com/writing. Kris’s blog is below explaining all this great stuff. The 2025 Write Stuff Bundle – Curated by Kristine Kathryn Rusch When I got into the writing business, it had been stable for decades. Traditional publishing had a monopoly on production and distribution. That part of the industry, based in New York (and London and other capitals for those of you outside of the U.S.), determined what we read, how long the books were available, and where we could buy them. Traditional publishing still exists. Fortunately, it’s not in charge of what we…
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Rules for Each SUPER GREAT CHALLENGE
The Early Bird Special Is Open For One Week… On any of the Super Great challenges, the cost is $600, but if you use the code: EarlyBird You get 20% off. ($480) (And yes, if you miss, you still get $600 credit.) Early Bird sale will last for one week. But if you make any of these new SUPER GREAT challenges, you get the LIFETIME EVERYTHING SUBSCRIPTION worth $10,000. Great challenges. So here are the rules to the new four SUPER GREAT challenges now up on WMG Teachable. —- The Super Great Challenge rules… — Write one short story per week for 52 weeks. — Stories must be minimum of…
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SUPER Great Challenges
Blog Early Tonight Because of Licensing Expo… Starts tomorrow morning, so I might be late a touch on a few things, but will try not to. And will give a report here and on a couple of the classes later in the week. But quickly, I want to announce what is not up yet, but will be shortly on Teachable (shortly meaning a day or so.) THE SUPER GREAT CHALLENGES… Right now we have the following challenges you can sign up for at any time… Any genre… — The Great Challenge (write a story per week and send it to me for 52 weeks.) — The Great Novella Challenge (write…
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ADVANCED MAGIC BAKERY… Chapter Two
Chapter Two… Market or No Market… You write this short story. All done. In your magic bakery you have created a magic pie. That pie has a lot of value that I will talk about in later chapters. But instead of taking the pie out of the kitchen and putting it in your store to sell to customers around the world, you just put it on a shelf in the kitchen, for some reason deciding not to market your story. Pie will not spoil. It can just sit there for years and years. But it is not making you any money, not paying you back for the time and energy…
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More Reading…
So Chapter Two Another Day Off… As I talked about last night, my problems with most stories is not the writing. And I say so if I do have an issue with that. Been thinking about this as I read more and more stories with the same issue. Information flow problem. What do I mean by that? Simply put, most writers don’t know when to ease up on the details and back story and bring in the story itself, so I often don’t make it to the story even though the writing is great. That is an information flow problem. Can a hook help that at the opening? Not so…