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May Half Gone So A Summary Day
Time is Speeding Right Along… Workshop Summary… — First off, the special cover branding workshop with Allyson is now full. Sorry if you missed it. — The special prices for lectures I have listed below will be ending soon. — And the Strengths Workshops will close at some point for new sign-ups. If questions, write me. — Two spots open in the novel challenge starting June 1st. No openings in the short story workshop challenge. (And the four writers in May are doing great and I’m enjoying reading the stories.) That’s the workshop and challenge summary. May speeding right along. Personal Summary… I hope to power on the novel and…
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End of the Month Catching Up
Time for some writing numbers and regular stuff… Going to catch up all the numbers here, since the last time I did this was almost three weeks weeks ago. January turned out to be a pretty good month for writing. And as things get slowly back to normal again, I will start back up the “thing I learned today” feature. That was fun. I still did it every day over the last three weeks, but not going to spend time here going over them. I wrote about 125,000 total words during January, with everything except post comments counted. Decent amount of fiction. Working to ramp that up. Totals are below.…
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Adjust A Goal
Adjust a Goal On July 1st, without saying much to anyone but Kris, I started a push to run a marathon in November. But as I detailed out the first of September, I had to hit one major benchmark before I would even start that marathon. Some background: I will be 66 before the race starts. I have bad knees from my years in sports. And I was far overweight on July 1st. Benchmark: To protect my knees, I needed to be under 180 pounds to start the race. I would be better served to be around 170, but I was willing to go at 180. On July 1st I weighed…
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Running Breakthrough
Running Breakthrough As I have talked about since the first of this month, I am in training to try to finish a marathon in November. I started this over twenty pounds heavier on July 1st and have been slowly and carefully working my way toward that goal of starting that race. Very, very carefully since I was overweight and have bad knees. My goal is to run/walk the marathon. I want to say that right from the start. Actually my goal is starting. Finishing is sort of a distant dream. I respect that distance. But after today it feels a little closer. I had planned on upping my daily milage…
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Heinlein’s Rules: Chapter Seven
HEINLEIN’S RULES Five Simple Business Rules for Writing CHAPTER SEVEN On to the fourth rule. Rule #4: You Must Put It On the Market. “It” in the rule refers to your finished and not rewritten story or novel. On the surface, this rule is very, very basic. And yet it was this rule that I had the most problem with over the years. This and Rule #5. Old Traditional Publishing World What Heinlein meant when he wrote this business rule in 1947 was that you had to send your story to some market that would buy it, publish it, and pay you money. When I started with these rules…
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Looking Back…
Doing a Lot of That This Year… Because of the fact that I sold my first two short stories 50 years ago and 40 years ago I was the first to walk across the Writers of the Future stage. Those kind of “zero” year dates will make anyone look around. And, of course, looking back over time can get you that wonderful 20/20 hindsight of seeing mistakes. I got two really good examples of that at the moment. The first one is looking back 50 years at the largest mistake I made in my writing and publishing career. The one mistake of instead of continuing to do what I had…
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One Day Left for Barkson’s Journey!!
The New Fey Kickstarter Check it out at Barkson’s Journey… One day left to go… Barkson’s Journey… A Race Against Time and The Fey So much fun… And we have the very first Fey map in this Kickstarter, some fun merchandise, great reading with other books and stretch goals, plus two really special workshops you can only get through this campaign. HOW TO CREATE AND USE FANTASY MAPS and HOW TO CREATE GREAT FANTASY MAIN CHARACTERS. Again, only offered through this campaign and never anywhere else. Check it out at Barkson’s Journey… (And yes we got a Project We Love from Kickstarter before we launched.)
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Write Stuff Storybundle Ends in 2 Days!!
This is a Stunning Value! Nine different writing books plus a $150 craft workshop, all for $25 bucks. And it is about to end! Here is Kris’s blog about it describing the books and everything. THE 2024 WRITE STUFF BUNDLE The 2024 Write Stuff Bundle – Curated by Kristine Kathryn Rusch Every year, I put together a bundle on writing. Every year, I find new concerns and ways to help writers market their work. I also find inspiration books on craft and keeping the faith as writers struggle with the blank page. This year’s bundle has four distinct elements. First, the all-important craft. J. Daniel Sawyer teaches you how to…
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BARKSON’S JOURNEY is Live!!
The New Fey Kickstarter Is Live!! Check it out at Barkson’s Journey… Barkson’s Journey… A Race Against Time and The Fey So much fun… And we have the very first Fey map in this Kickstarter, some fun merchandise, great reading with other books and stretch goals, plus two really special workshops you can only get through this campaign. HOW TO CREATE AND USE FANTASY MAPS and HOW TO CREATE GREAT FANTASY MAIN CHARACTERS. Again, only offered through this campaign and never anywhere else. Check it out at Barkson’s Journey… (And yes we got a Project We Love from Kickstarter before we launched.)
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New Fey Novel Kickstarter…
Launching at Noon Today!! Barkson’s Journey… A Race Against Time and The Fey When Augusta Kirilli discovers that someone wants to destroy her entire family, she needs to warn them. Warning her family, scattered all over the Qavnerian Protectorate, proves almost impossible and extremely dangerous. So she hires the one person who can reach them quickly—Lucinda Barkson. Lucinda Barkson, tough and dedicated, with a mysterious past. Lucinda Barkson, who sets out immediately, armed with fourteen letters for the Kirilli family, a partially accurate map, and a dozen different weapons. Lucinda Barkson, who soon realizes she faces warriors from the greatest military in the world—The Fey. With its nail-biting pace and shocking…