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    Home In Vegas

    Six Hours of Driving Today… Home, good dinner with Kris, catching up on email. So all is good. Got some fun idea for posts coming this week, so stay tuned. Monthly Regular Workshops… You can find them under Online Workshops to the right of this post. Sign up for July on Teachable.com. For credits or workshops beyond July, write me and pay through Paypal. Each regular workshop is 6 weeks long. Again, it will take you about three hours per week on your own pace to do each of these if you do the assignments. These are the starting dates of upcoming regular workshops. All have openings at the moment. Class…

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    Day of Driving

    Getting Closer to Las Vegas… Just a day of driving. The first two trips I drove to Vegas were in an older-model van, one non-stop with the cats. The last trip was driving a loaded uHaul truck. This trip I am in the Cadillac, taking it down to Vegas. This drive so far is easy and smooth, heaven compared to the first three. And mostly paid for by my tournament winnings. Back on regular schedule when I get home in Vegas tomorrow. So for tonight, from some hotel suite somewhere along some freeway, I say goodnight. And once again hit my daily blog challenge by saying really nothing at all.…

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    A Wrap-Up Post on the Challenge

    Back On The Oregon Coast… 30 stories done in April. That was the challenge, that is what happened. And that was with all the moving. Kris and I are in the process of moving from a huge house on the Oregon coast to a smaller place here on the coast and a condo in Las Vegas. Plus a bunch of stuff from the house has to go to the stores and warehouse. So a three-direction move. And I had a ton of work to do at WMG over the month. So why not write thirty stories square in the middle of all that? (Insanity check might have been called for.)…

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    MADE IT! 30 Stories in 30 Days

    So That Makes Ten Short Stories in Four Days! 30 stories done in April. Challenge Hit! And that was with all the moving. I am headed back to the coast tomorrow morning very early. Moving stuff from the big house there into a smaller place near one of our stores and then getting ready to bring more stuff down here to Vegas. So everything on target so far. Day and The Stories Made it out of bed about 10:30 and actually got to writing right after 11 a.m. Finished the first story in two sessions with only a short break by 1 a.m. when Kris got back from her exercise.…

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    THREE MORE STORIES TODAY

    So That Makes Eight Short Stories in Three Days! 28 stories done in April, two more to go with one day left. In sight. And that was with doing two webinars this morning and early afternoon here, and going for a nice dinner with Kris at the Golden Nugget and looking at the rooms where the workshops will be. Can you say stunning? Up a beautiful staircase directly across the street from a parking garage. On the other side of a glass wall on one side of the staircase is the pool. There are four restaurants within fifty feet of that staircase and a Starbucks. No where near a casino…

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    Two Story Day

    So That Makes Five Short Stories in Two Days! 25 stories done in April, 5 to go with 2 days left. Uphill, but I am having fun, so that is all that matters. And both stories again today were my new character Sky Tate. These are all stand-alone stories, not chapters. And if I hit this challenge, you will be able to read them along with these blogs in the book, just like Stories from July. The Day And the Stories Started off by getting up at 9:30 a.m. and was actually at our dining room table looking out over Las Vegas by 10:30 a.m., doing email. Second day in…

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    A Three Story Day!

    That Is Right. Three Short Stories in One Day! I needed to have one or two of these to hit the challenge, so still in the running it seems. And all three stories were with my new series character, Sky Tate: The Best Woman Detective in the Business. She owns snark. And damn are the fun to write, exactly what I needed. The Day And the Stories Started off by getting up at 9:30 a.m. and was actually at our diningroom table looking out over Las Vegas by 10:30 a.m., doing email. And by 11 a.m. I started into a story I called “The Story of Jean.” I have decided…

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    Another Story and Great Bundle

    The New StoryBundle Writing Bundle is up.. Every spring Kris puts together this fantastic writing bundle and again this year she topped any previous year. And you get my How To Write a Novel In Five Days While Traveling as well as Heinlein’s Rules lecture. And eight other books. Check it out at StoryBundle.com. I will write more about it in the coming days. The Day Mostly just did a lot of planning on the coming month of moving stuff. I have been in the middle of this move now for over a month now and it is just getting to the massive stage of parts need to fall into…

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    ANOTHER STORY… ANOTHER SERIES

    That’s Right, I Started A New Series Character… I did not mean to. Honest. Just sitting there in a restaurant sipping on an iced tea and eating some sort of chip appetizer while Kris was exercising and out came this character.  It is in the same world as my Poker Boy, Ghost of a Chance, and Marble Grant series. Damn I love writing in that world. Can you tell? The Day Kris and I headed out around 11 a.m. to go to the gym where there is an indoor running track where Kris can run. It’s record heat here right now. We are both members of the gym, so while…

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    Story Seventeen

    Rested This Afternoon So the Story Came Easy… Go figure, I took a nap and then watched some television and just rested, so when I did go to doing email and workshop stuff and writing, it all went easier. Wow, shocker. (grin) The Day Started off up real, real early at a little after 9 a.m. to get some stuff done and get to the WMG offices for the two webinars. I had fun on both, although the Space Opera got way off topic for the last thirty minutes. Still fun and good questions. Thanks everyone. Then went to the writer’s lunch in another part of the WMG offices, which…