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Some Reminders on This Friday
Updates and New Stuff… Just wanted to mention some new workshop stuff and remind people that some things are ending. I know it is smack in the middle of the time of great forgetting, but sometimes workshops or planning for workshops can help keep a little focus on the writing during these months. So first off, we have a nifty new web site for the Vegas workshops. WMGWorkshops.com. Pretty clear and simple address and a really nifty site that just launched describing the Vegas workshops. And speaking of the Vegas workshops, we are about to end the special deal we were offering. A couple more days is all. Write me…
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Online Workshops Update
All Kinds of Stuff Going On… First off, since no one was signed up in June for the Weekender Pop-up Workshops, we have cancelled those. However, the entire group of them, plus two more will return in the fall, after the time of great forgetting. The Indie Game workshop turned out to be a stunner and great fun. I sure had a blast looking at a ton of writer pen name careers over ten years, seeing all sorts of patterns. Of course, the Pop-Up Workshops will remain available to all of the Lifetime Workshop subscribers. You folks can take them at any time you want. ————— Insider’s Guide Webinar workshops.…
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Another Miss… Down Three
Not Going Like Other Challenges… I had expected this challenge this month to be nuts to even try, but I knew if I didn’t push, I wouldn’t write a word the entire month and then wonder what happened. Yeah, we have all had those sort of months, huh? (grin) So I planned on having two misses along the way and then writing two stories a day for a couple days toward the end to get back on target. Still planning to do that, but now it needs to be three. Normally my challenges are all a story a day through the entire month. I knew this one wouldn’t be like…
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Story Fourteen and Cats
Another Fun Day… I didn’t get much packing in today because of meetings and the workshop going on here and so on. But I did spend a bunch of time clearing out a ton of things that could be tossed away. It was garbage day and recycling day and I found a bunch of stuff. So that was sort of moving today. The Day Got up around eleven and made it to WMG around 1 p.m. to help get the Fantasy Workshop started. Then meetings on the topic of the next blog. Then I did the stores and banking running around, then back to work in my office and eat…
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Thirteen and Back On Pace
A Really Fun Day… I did my first two webinars today, about three hours total between them. I had fun and I hope they were interesting for others listening in and asking questions. One was on selling short fiction and the other on writing space opera. The Day Got up around nine-thirty because I had to be live on camera at 11 a.m. Webinars lasted until 2:15 and then the session of the coast workshop started at 2:30. By 4:30 I had lunch and I was home and packing boxes and such. Then a nap and back to the office for the evening workshop session at 7 p.m. Home after…
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Skip Second Day… Not Worried
Another Long and Fun Day… I didn’t even think about moving over to the writing computer to write tonight. Started off this morning with movers helping me move stuff from first the offices, then this house, then from the bookstore. A massive move-around that needed to be done to stage the next step in this move. Many hours and physically draining, even though they were doing most of the lifting. Remember, this challenge is to write 30 stories in 30 days while moving. Today was not only the start of the Fantasy workshop here at the coast, but a massive moving day. So no thought of writing tonight. Not even…
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Decided To Skip Tonight
Four Hours of Sleep and a Fun Day… I got all the way through the day, sat down at my writing computer around 2.a.m. and just laughed. Not that I most likely could have done a story. I am sure I could have. But it was time to get sane and get some rest. Had only four hours of sleep last night and have to be up early tomorrow as well and a story was going to stop that because I would write until I finished it. I have often done two stories in one day, so next week, after things have calmed down by a billion miles, I will…
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An Even Dozen
Stunned Looking Back At This Week… I can say for certain that these twelve short stories would not exist without this challenge. Not a chance on the planet. And so far, Kris has said all of the first eleven work and are good, which surprises writer-me even more. Not supposed to happen that way in my head, which goes to show that even I still fight the old myths about writing at times. But this challenge, with my work schedule this week, has knocked some of those old myths into the bleachers, never to return. The Day Got up around eleven because I had an appointment for a conference call…
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Eleven and Going Strong
I Am Going To Be Doing Packing Soon… I just need to have a day when I am not going from morning until night at work. But had fun today setting up webinar settings and making sure everything would work on my end. I think it’s going to be really cool. We shall see on Sunday. So we have a meeting format set up for Kris and the workshop and we have a webinar set up for the Sunday webinars. I want to thank Josh Frase a ton. He is my managing editor at Pulphouse and our web guy for all our web sites. He is a miracle worker, actually.…
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Story Ten Done… Ten Days
Still Going… Today ended up just about as busy as yesterday, but I managed to write only a 1,500 word story instead of a 4,400 word story like yesterday. That is going to help me get to bed a little earlier and get a good night’s sleep. Yay! And Kris was stunned that she actually really liked the long story I wrote yesterday. Goes to show that writing fresh or writing exhausted does not make a difference in the quality of the story. I knew that, learned that a long time ago, but still good to be reminded. The Day Got up around 11:30 a.m. once again after only five…