• Challenge,  workshops

    Some Suggestions…

    Sale Still Going On… I thought I would give a few suggestions as to classes and workshops I think might be a good idea to think about grabbing at half price. Earlier I recorded the first weeks of the second quarter of both the Decade Ahead and Bite-Sized Copyright. The first quarter is done for both, starting on Monday into the second quarter. The first quarter would be easy to catch up on and then just go forward with the four videos every Monday morning through the rest of the year. No assignments, just knowledge and help. You can still get the full year (all four quarters) at half price.…

  • Challenge,  Fun Stuff,  On Writing

    Getting Back In The Chair…

    Can’t Count the Words for the Challenges… But figured since my writing has been so off and on for the last five months because of the eye issues, I had better spend time back in my writing chair kicking off the dust. Feels great, let me tell you. Can not believe how much I have missed being in that chair over the last five months. I sat down tonight and said, “I’m home!” Couple things I noticed. I am not typing as clean as I used to because the eye is not totally back, so getting letters mixed up when my fingers get off the keys or in the wrong…

  • Challenge,  Fun Stuff,  On Writing

    More On Dean Challenges

    Some Great Questions This Weekend… Main question is that if I go past a million words, does that mean anyone in the challenge must as well? Nope. If I write past a million words (love how you guys are worried about that while I am worried with the eyes of just getting close to that number), the challenge is capped at one million. So the full folks need to write that much, the half need to write 500,000 words. If I do 800,000 words, that is the mark for the full and 400,000 is for the half. I will be reporting every week on both challenges with a video. Every…

  • Challenge,  Fun Stuff,  On Writing

    Dean Challenges… Two of them…

    Both a Full and a Half Challenge… Last night I mentioned I was thinking about doing a challenge for anyone who wanted to try to match or beat the number of consumable words I wrote from April 1st 2023 until December 31st, 2023. Nine months. I said what I hoped to hit, but of course that is just the plan and we all know how plans go. (grin) But I also suggested that I would set up a challenge for anyone who wanted to try to match me. A challenge similar to the other challenges already there. And a couple people thought they could keep up or beat me, which…

  • Challenge,  Licensing,  publishing,  workshops

    Bite-Sized Copyright

    Learn Copyright Every Week Painlessly… Yup, I know. You have been meaning to get to learning copyright, but it just doesn’t seem important enough yet. You are making great money “selling” your stories on Amazon and other places, and the entire licensing thing just seems pointless. Sadly, most writers feel that way right up to the moment something happens. Copyright is like learning craft in fiction writing. The more you know, the more you realize you need to know. And the more you know, interestingly enough, the more money you make overall. But learning it on your own is difficult at best. And for many writers, tedious, so it gets…

  • Challenge,  workshops

    Last Day!! Flash Sale of Decade Ahead and Regular Workshops!

    30% Off!! The last day for the flash sale on the Decade Ahead classes and the January Regular Workshops. Decade Ahead class will work as a continuation of the Motivational Monday posts, only with a focus on what you can do to set yourself up to be ready for the full decade. New videos will be up every Monday morning on business and writing and thinking ahead.. This 30% off applies to only the Decade Ahead and the January Regular Workshops. And yes, it applies to the get a full year of Decade Ahead Bundle. (Decade Ahead can be bought in four quarters, or for a full year.) And yes,…

  • Challenge,  workshops

    Flash Sale On Regular Workshops and Decade Ahead…

    30% OFF FOR THE NEXT THREE DAYS!! Just two days left on the Decade Ahead classes and the January Regular Workshops. Decade Ahead class will work as a continuation of the Motivational Monday posts, only with a focus on what you can do to set yourself up to be ready for the full decade. New videos will be up every Monday morning on business and writing and thinking ahead.. This 30% off applies to only the Decade Ahead and the January Regular Workshops. And yes, it applies to the get a full year of Decade Ahead Bundle. (Decade Ahead can be bought in four quarters, or for a full year.)…

  • Challenge,  On Writing,  publishing,  workshops

    Flash Sale for Decade Ahead and January Regular Workshops

    30% OFF FOR THE NEXT THREE DAYS!! On the Decade Ahead classes and the January Regular Workshops. Decade Ahead class will work as a continuation of the Motivational Monday posts, only with a focus on what you can do to set yourself up to be ready for the full decade. New videos will be up every Monday morning. I just got the Decade Ahead classes ready to go for 2023 in the new weekly format. And I just got up all the January Regular Workshops. So figured for the next three days we could do a Flash Sale on those two. This 30% off applies to only the Decade Ahead…

  • Challenge,  workshops

    Coming Out of a Fog

    Finally Coming Back… Been dealing with this eye injury for about a month now, then got a horrid cold, worst one I have had in years, actually, that made my eyes blurry on top of the injury. So a fun couple of days being mostly blind and sneezing. Joy. But as the cold slowly clears, I feel like I am coming out of a fog bank and seeing the sun again. And clearly, under the cold-caused crap, my eyes are slowly improving. Yay! A couple more days and I will only be dealing with the eye issues again. So sitting here at this computer tonight, with the screens blown up…

  • Challenge,  On Writing,  publishing,  workshops

    The Last Sale…

    Ever…. And we will not change our minds. This is it. This week. Why the about face on sales??? We said in June we would do a regular sale the last full week of each month up until the end of the year. Well, total failure. What is success to us? Having writers take the workshops or classes to keep learning. What the regular sales did from June until now basically caused the writers who are taking workshops and learning to be cut more than in half. So the sales don’t help more writers take classes, they instead cut the number of people taking classes and learning. And that is…