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Quarter of the Year Gone!!
Just Poof!! All History Now… Did you get the writing and publishing done you wanted to get done? Did you learn the things you wanted to learn? Are you on pace to make your goal or do you need to reset? I love resetting. Do it most every year, but this year, weirdly enough, I am about where I expected and hoped to be. And I have beat back or down almost all learning curves I had listed last fall. One more big one to go and two not so big, and with luck, I will be up to speed. My goal starting back in the middle of November was…
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Quick Update On My Challenge and Learning Curves…
Knocking the Learning Curves Done One After Another… This coming week is Shopify learning curve, to clean up the mess that is our stores. A ton more fun than the Anthropic crap, that’s for sure. Then I get into my challenge which I will use to get really good at Vellum and also at listings and Bookfunnel. Those are the last three major ones. Yay!! And my challenge to publish 75 major books by the middle of November? Well, actually, I am about exactly where I thought I would be in this process. Technically I published one collection in a bundle, but not going to count that until it gets…
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2026 Challenge Is Also Half Price
Everything On Teachable is Half Price… Until January 5th late. And here are a few pictures of me holding up a Beautiful Trophy you could get if you hit the challenge of 2026 words per day in 2026. These are hand-blown glass floats, made on the coast in Oregon. Everyone one is different. We will be shipping four of these to the winners of the challenge in 2024. Sure sorry for the delay. And in January I will know how many more we need to order. The 2026 word challenge is starting on the 1st. And since it is part of WMG Teachable, it is half price right now. Here…
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A Fun And Powerful Saying…
I Think It Was Nelson Mandela Who Said It… A quote that fits my challenges and also the Mindset workshop that just started. “It always seems impossible until it’s done.” Yup, exactly. Problem is that is you believe something is impossible, you make decisions to make sure the impossible belief is true. So, for example, my challenge is to do 52 collections this year, all ten stories each. No repeating stories. Impossible, right? Basically publish one collection per week. I am five weeks in and tonight I put together the 7th collection. I should have ten collections (100 stories) done by tomorrow night with covers for all ten. A couple…
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Update on My Last Year’s Challenge…
Far Too Aggressive and I Knew It… But considering the year I had just come through and the one we were about to go through, I needed something to keep my focus on writing every day. And what better way to do that was to attempt to write one short story per day for the entire year. Totally worked. Of course I did not hit the challenge, I wrote 106 short stories. In a really bad year for other reasons. I know a number of you managed fifty or so this year. Way cool, but my “failure” produced more short fiction than many writers will write in their entire careers.…
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Update on Challenge and Vellum Battle
Won the Vellum Battle… I am sure I will have issues at times, but they will be minor. Got my collection through Vellum and turned into StoryBundle and that bundle will launch in a couple of days. I will do covers in InDesign, most interiors in Vellum, Smith Monthly interiors in InDesign, and fun Kickstarter designs in Canva. And that collection (called MY SOCKS ROLLED DOWN AND OTHER STORIES) is also book #1 in my challenge of 75 major books published in my 75th year. A few things have shifted for me in that for the first time in my life, I want to have every one of my short…
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Changing My Challenge!!
Yes, Only One Week In… Amazing how starting a challenge can bring up reality and things a person had never thought of. A tiny bit of back story. Last three years have been just flat pressure every day, from losing my sight three years ago, to business sstuff, to the fall and surgery and PT at the same time stunningly awful business problems were discovered and now the last two years of putting things back together and attorneys, lots of attorneys. Kris and I, with the stunning help of Chris York and Stephanie Writt, put it all back together and better. And now Steph has moved on to different pastures…
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Update on Challenge…
Novel Writing Off To a Slow Start… Totally expected.No surprise at all. Working on a Thunder Mountain novel titled CASCADE MEADOWS. A few of you from Idaho might actually know where that is at. I will have a cover for it after a time that I will share here. Last night I did the cover for my first ten-story collection, which will be part of a really fun Wee Beasties story bundle launching in a few weeks. The title of the collection is MY SOCKS ROLLED DOWN and Nine Other Stories… So now putting the stories and introduction together into Vellum. Here is the cover… The half price sale still…
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Going For It!!!
Starting Two New Challenges for Myself… Actually, three. And I will be doing every detail of everything all myself. No help from anyone. That’s right. I will be doing my own covers and my own interiors with Vellum or InDesign. I will be listing them all electronically and with Ingram for paper and hardbacks. And I will be working on my store and getting all of them there as well. So what is my challenge? From November 10, 2025 until November 9th 2026… Challenge #1… I am going to write and finish a new novel every two weeks. So 26 novels, but in the actual year I will more than…
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Long Day, But Good One…
Not Enough Sleep… So calling it a night early tonight. Tomorrow is Kickstarter Friday, and so far I have only had two sent to me. August 1st 2012 I challenged myself to blog every night without missing, thinking I might make it a few months. 4,844 days later, I do this short post to keep the streak going. Damn streaks are powerful. Night