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Holiday Spectacular Workshops Sessions Starting
As the Holiday Spectacular 2022 Happens…. With a new, original story arriving to each person every day with the Holiday Spectacular, the second session of the two special workshops that writer’s signed up through the Kickstarter are starting. First sessions are done and all stories are turned in to Allyson and Kris from those sessions. So if you were signed up through the Kickstarter for these special workshops, don’t miss the start of these second sessions. This is the last time they will ever be offered. DECEMBER REGULAR WORKSHOPS All six are in their second weeks. Still time to sign up. I will have the January Regular workshops up this…
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Challenges for the New Year
We Have Four of Them To Help You… If you are looking around and trying to set some goals for the coming writing year, consider taking a challenge from WMG workshops. There are four of them on Teachable. THE GREAT CHALLENGE is to write and send me a short story every week for 52 weeks. NOVELLA CHALLENGE is to write and send me a novella every month for 12 months. NOVEL CHALLENGE is to write and send me a novel every two months, and then publish the book in a paperback and send that to me at some point down the road. PUBLISHING CHALLENGE is to publish one new major…
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Fun Run… Fun Pictures
Uphill, Both Ways… Well, it felt that way to a guy still overweight. Granted I have lost four pounds in the last few weeks, but not enough to run too much uphill on bad knees. I ran the first seven tenths of a mile to start, which turns out was slightly downhill. Feeling great. Walked a short hill, then turned a corner and all I could see into the distance was uphill. Well over a. mill uphill. So I walked it. Ran small downhill sections, but walked all the hills, far more walking than I had planned, and missed the podium by one spot. Got 4th in my age group…
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December Regular Workshops
All Started!! Everything is still in the first week of all six of them, so lots of time to jump in. They are all six weeks long with assignments from me. If you have not taken a craft class yet, start with Depth in Writing. Class #54… Dec 6th … Writing into the Dark Class #55… Dec 6th … Teams in Fiction Class #56… Dec 7th … Depth in Writing Class #58…Dec 7th … Applied Depth Class #59… Dec 7th … Advanced Depth Class #60… Dec 7th … Killing Critical Voice Just go to www.wmgworkshops.com and click the tab Study with Dean. That is the new WMGWorkshops.com web site where links…
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Remember the Time Travel Bundle of Books
Reposting This… At www.storybundle.com/timetravel Here is the introduction blog I did for the bundle. I posted this a week or so ago, but got a hunch a bunch of sf readers missed it. This is a stunning group of writers and a lot of time travel stories. You don’t want to miss this one. Plus I have a Thunder Mountain novel in this one, Kris has a Diving novel, and we put in one of the big collections of 20 stories we did a few years back. So here is the intro blog I did for the start of the bundle… TIME TRAVEL FUN… Time travel fits in any genre…
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The Fun of Las Vegas
Great Friends and Fun Things to Do… Today, because housekeepers were swarming all over our place, Kris and I got out, had a great lunch, and then spent some hours in Cowboy Christmas in the convention center. Six billion booths and people on two floors of the old massive convention center. Everything you can imagine and a bunch of stuff I couldn’t imagine. But seeing the giant booth of Yellowstone merchandise was fun with the licensing side. We went in, walked to the back, and started back forward in a different aisle. Took hours just for that on one floor. I wanted to do the show to see how my…
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Holiday and a Cat
Figured It Had Been a While… So tonight, a picture of the cat (Angel) who spends a lot of time on my lap watching my screen as I do posts. We put up one of three trees and Angel claimed it. It is now very festive around here. A cat and a Christmas tree. What more can you want out of a blog?
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December Regular Workshops Starting…
Tuesday and Wednesday… If you want to see the list of the December regular workshops, go to Study With Dean That is the new WMGWorkshops.com web site where links will take you directly to the class instead of having to search on Teachable. We will have them sorted in short order by craft, business, and attitude, as well as by types of workshops. Not all links are there yet, but it is happening quickly. All the workshops that I do regularly such as the regular workshops, collection classes, Decade Ahead, Bite-Sized Copyright, and others will be under Study with Dean, as well as in the entire list and other places.…
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I’m Feeling Fine
Just Can’t See… So I want to thank you all for hoping I get feeling better soon. Your good thoughts mean a great deal. But honestly, except for a slight cough from the cold I caught at 20Books, I feel great. I did the 5K yesterday and actually ended up with over 7 miles of steps that day. Another four miles plus today. The issue is I have what is called Optic Neuritis which has no known cause. (I do not have MS.)For some reason my immune system attacked the membrane around the back of my eye, making it swell and stopping most of my vision in my only good…
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Great Santa Run
Me and 5,000 Friends Out for A Run… Weirdly enough this year, even with the eye problems which made tripping a real hazard, I managed to run a ways. No Santa Run before this have I run at all. Just too many people, but Las Vegas Blvd has been redone, wide, pavement, smooth, and I managed to stay on my feet and with and ahead of Kris for a half mile or so before we turned onto older streets and I dropped to walking to stay as safe as I could. This is a major charity event for Opportunity Village and every year they try to have the record for…