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More Notes From An Editor…
Again a Lot of Reading Tonight… Story after story after story so far tonight, the writing was good if not great. But I would be reading along and suddenly go “where is the story?” Oops… Another thing I noticed is flashbacks in openings. I guess the writer thinks that is a good way to help explain a character, but the reader (in this case me) is not grounded in the present of the story so when I am taken back to some event in the past, I quit reading. And back to point one, that flashback is a long ways from any story. Oops… You know, writers, you don’t have…
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Back Tomorrow With Chapter Two…
Got Too Busy Reading Tonight… Because of all the things that happened this last fall and through the winter, I got really behind on reading the stories for Pulphouse Fiction Magazine that were sent over the fall and winter from the Pulphouse Kickstarter last summer. But been giving every story a good chance, a good read, and finding some. I have been mixing up the topic stories through the fall, so the ones I have left are not that many in any month. One more week I should have a response to everyone who sent in a story through December. This has been a great time reading and I am…
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LAST DAY OF FOUR MYSTERIES KICKSTARTER
Get Four Of Kris’s Short Mystery Novels… The four books are new, and except for a publication in our Holiday Spectacular Calendar last fall of one of them, none of these have seen print. (Out of that Calendar, the one story won the Derringer Award.) Fantastic reading and all four books come automatically with any reward in the Kickstarter. In total we have hit six stretch goals counting the special backer one, which means all backers get six more Kristine Kathryn Rusch stories, plus for writers, four writing classes worth $1,650. That’s right, $1,650 value in writing classes for free for backing this campaign at any level. And if we…
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ADVANCED MAGIC BAKERY… CHAPTER ONE
ADVANCED MAGIC BAKERY Copyright, Trademark, and Branding in the Modern World Dean Wesley Smith Chapter One: A Magic Pie To start off with, I need to make sure this metaphor is totally clear. When you finish a story (a short story or a novella or a novel), you have created a magic pie. The pies are all the same size. The length of the work does not dictate the size of the pie in any way and I will explain that later. When a real baker makes a pie, there might be 20 different ingredients put into the mix in a certain way and baked in a certain way…
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Advanced Magic Bakery… Introduction
ADVANCED MAGIC BAKERY Copyright, Trademark, and Branding in the Modern World Dean Wesley Smith (Author Note: I am going to write this book here one chapter at a time… At some point it will also be a class on Teachable and the book will be for sale in my store.) INTRODUCTION You are a magician. You are. Trust me. And not just an illusionist. You are a real, honest-to-god magician with real magic. Although often you use the techniques of an illusionist as well. But your magic is very, very real. You create from nothing entire people, entire worlds, entire galaxies. You help people understand the feelings of loss and…
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Missing Great Workshops
They Just Started This Last Week!! Still time to jump in without missing anything I am giving one last reminder here because these classes are so good.. Three ADVANCED CRAFT CLASSES. ADVANCED CLIFFHANGERS ADVANCED ENDINGS FLOATING VIEWPOINTS Maybe three of the most important classes we do. All are 9 weeks long with eight assignments. The Floating Viewpoints class will change what you think you know about fiction writing forever. And destroy some myths. Cliffhangers will make your books move faster and be unable to be put down. Endings will sell you a ton more of your next books. Three classes that will challenge you and teach you and keep you…
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Special Stretch Goal!!
On Four Mysteries Kickstarter… SPECIAL STRETCH GOAL…Hit 120 Backers By Late Tuesday Night!!… If this Four Mysteries campaign hits 120 Backers by late Tuesday night, every backer of any reward at $20.00 and above will get the Kristine Kathryn Rusch crime story SCARS in electronic edition. And something special for writers. If we reach this level, all backers will get the Kickstarter Classic Workshop: Writing Mystery Stories. If you already have this or are not a writer, you can give this away to another writer. We are at 93 backers here on Saturday evening so getting to 120 backers by late Tuesday is very possible if we can pass the…
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Almost Forgot
But Didn’t… Got busy with other stuff, noticed the sun was coming up, and started to go to bed when I remembered this blog. Too tired to talk about anything. Just typing this and heading off to bed, Amazing what you can do to keep a challenge going, isn’t it? The power of a streak!
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REALLY FUN WORKSHOPS IN KICKSTARTER
100 MYSTERY PROMPTS IN TWO WORKSHOPS For the writers who love to write stories and learn the craft and business of writing, we are offering some very, very special treats through this FOUR MYSTERIES Kickstarter campaign. These two courses will only be offered through this campaign and nowhere else, so don’t miss them. — #1… 50 MURDER MYSTERY PROMPTS This is a special three-week workshop on 50 prompts for stories with murder in them. How to start each story from the prompt. How to present the murder. How to use depth in various sub-genres. How to create great murder mystery stories. How to make each story completely your own. This is…
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Workshops Started
Started May 6th… Three ADVANCED CRAFT CLASSES. ADVANCED CLIFFHANGERS ADVANCED ENDINGS FLOATING VIEWPOINTS Maybe three of the most important classes we do. All are 9 weeks long with eight assignments. The Floating Viewpoints class will change what you think you know about fiction writing forever. And destroy some myths. Cliffhangers will make your books move faster and be unable to be put down. Endings will sell you a ton more of your next books. Three classes that will challenge you and teach you and keep you focused on your writing until July. All are on WMG Teachable. How About Writing and Publishing a Book in Nine Weeks? These four Collection…