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When a Streak Becomes A Pain
For Example… This Blogging Streak… I really just want to go downstairs and watch a half hour of television before falling into bed. But nope, got to do a blog, even though my brain is mush and I have nothing that I even care about to say, let alone something anyone else would care about. On August 1st, if I make it that long, this streak will be 3,650 days long without missing a blog. TEN YEARS WITHOUT MISSING A DAY! Seriously, who does that? So today is 3,575 days without missing, through power outages, computer failures (number of them) and web site failures (numbers of them). So here I…
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10 New Pop-Up Classes Now Up
Science Fiction World Building Pop-Ups… Yes, these are the ten Pop-Up writing classes that tomorrow (Friday) will be going out to everyone who backed the RESCUE TWO Kickstarter Campaign. If you don’t get the letter with how to get into all of them by Monday and have checked your spam filter and the email that you used for Kickstarter, then contact Josh at WMG at subscriptions@wmgbooks.com But they are also for sale for anyone who missed them and will be added to the Lifetime Pop-Up Subscription as well. (Yes, you can buy a Lifetime Subscription to all 79 of them, with more coming shortly. They are on Teachable. Here is…
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36 Years Ago
I Met Kristine Kathryn Rusch… I was living in Moscow, Idaho, in an apartment on the second floor in the Moscow Hotel right in the middle of the town and over a bar called The Garden Lounge. My second wife and I were no longer together, although I consider her a friend. I was an assistant manager and tended bar at a billiard bar. And I still drove school bus at times if they needed me to fill in. My house on the Oregon Coast had burned down one year earlier and I had lost most of the writing I had done in the previous three years, plus my first…
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Fun New Stuff…
Next Kickstarter Campaign Will Have 10 Stretch Goals… They will have a new form of video event that will be amazing fun, a different one in each stretch reward. I will explain those as we get closer to firing up the campaign. Everyone at WMG is excited about them and no, they are not pop-ups. (Pop-Up stretch awards from the Seeders campaign should go out by Friday. I will announce it here and in an update. But starting on Monday, as a form of inflation-busting help, we are starting something new on Teachable: RECOMMENDED CLASSES OF THE WEEK. Basically a Bundle of Recommended Classes for that week. Each bundle will…
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May Workshops Starting Up!
Four Collection Classes and Nine Regular Workshops… All starting Tuesday and Wednesday. The four collection classes are: — Space Opera Collection Class (new) — Portals Collection Class — Private Eyes Collection Class — Holiday Collection Class These all run 9 weeks long, you write five stories along the way, do your own cover and sales copy and publish the story in the 9th week. Great fun. Cost is $500 for the nine weeks and if you hit all nine assignments, you get a Pop-Up worth $150 of your choice. Sign up on WMG Teachable. REGULAR WORKSHOPS STARTING Class #41… May 3rd … Covers 101 Class #42… May 3rd … Making…
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A Pithy Comment
A Good One This Week… I find a pithy comment of the week every week to add into the videos in the Motivational Monday class. This Monday is the 5th week of the second quarter. If you sign up for the entire year, you get all the ones from the first three months in the first quarter, plus the five so far this quarter. Plus all the rest coming in this year. But this week I wanted to share the quote from Ingrid Bergman out wider, which I thought applied to writing and publishing spot on the money. And from a direction most writers don’t come from. Basically, what I…
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May 1st Restart
Some Months Make More Sense Than Others to Restart… For me, I am used May 1st to restart a number of things. First, I am restarting my minimum milage per day. I clock steps and for me 2,000 steps on my Fitbit is almost always exactly one mile. So starting May 1st I am going to hit 3 miles (6,000 steps) per day and then every week increase that by 500 steps. I need the exercise and why May 1st is a good time to do that is because as the weather warms up here in Vegas, I will be spending a lot of time daily at the gym, which…
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Licensing Expo
Here in Vegas May 24th, 25th, 26th… I just put up a few more videos on the Master Business Class about the Expo. I will add in a full five to ten more videos on how to best use it this year, take your IP from your computer to a toy in a toy store, or a major game, or whatever license that would fit your IP. So those of you in the Master Business Class, watch the new videos and then stay tuned for more. Plus other topics as well coming, including how to handle money and how to deal with taxes. Yes, it is still possible to sign…
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Media Kit Workshop
Changing Some Workshop Stuff… Going to finally climb off the two-month rotation of workshops and offer every regular workshop every month. Just going to be so much easier, but going to take me a little time to get June workshops, the first month for that, loaded up. Also the two special workshops, Ideas and Time in Space from the last Kickstarter campaign start their last sessions on May 3rd. Everyone got the links and codes for those a month ago. As far as the Focused Study stuff, we are still doing that for anything you think you might need help with. We will tell you if it is the right…
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Catching Up… To Do or Not To Do?
A Great Question… I got that question from a writer just today and I had a pretty simple answer for him. But there is more to my answer than what I was able to give him at the spur of the moment. I said this: Try to catch up if doing so is possible and will be challenging. If impossible to catch up, then simply reset the challenge and start fresh. Sounds simple until you start figuring out if something is impossible or not. Sometimes you just know you have screwed the pooch. No catching up is possible. Reset and restart!!! But other times the added challenge makes it even…