• Challenge,  On Writing,  publishing

    Nothing’s Good Enough

    A New Pop-Up… And also part of the first quarter of The Decade Ahead class. That’s right, there is a new Pop-Up with a story prompt and everything. If you are in The Decade Ahead class, either the entire year or the first quarter, this Pop-Up is now part of that class and the link to it is under the first video in February. Or you can just sign up for the Pop-Up directly. It is Pop-Up #18: Nothing’s Good Enough. And it is also in the Bundle Pop-Up #11-20 and is also in the Bundle Pop-Up 11–20. (The Pop-Ups are $150 and the bundles make it cheaper to get…

  • Challenge,  On Writing,  publishing

    New Pop-Up on Thinking Big

    Pop-Up #11 Available… This one is on how fiction writers need to learn how to think big, dream big, plan big. And how to do it. It’s a good one. And it has a really fun short story prompt with it. (Due date only just over a week or so off.) Get it on Teachable.com All the previous Pop-Ups, #1-10 are available still in the bundles of five or ten. (Normally each Pop-Up is $150 each, but in the bundles they are cheaper.) Each one is from 12-15 videos on the topic, plus a short story prompt. You can only turn in the #11 short story to me, since the…

  • Challenge,  On Writing,  publishing

    Sixth Pop-Up Launching

    Writing Mysteries into the Dark… This is the sixth and last one for this year, of course. I will be announcing two or three more in a week or so. We will do at least two or more per month, and they are only up for two weeks at a time. Details of all of them are below. However, you can still get the earlier ones in the bundles. We have three bundles available. The first five, the second five, and the first ten. As of today there are six Pop-Ups available in the bundles. Information about them is below. But again, the first three are only available in the…

  • On Writing,  publishing

    Pop-Up Topics Now Available

    First One Launches Later Today!… The Pop-Up. Over the last number of years, topics and fun things had come up that Kris and I wanted to talk about, but we had had no structure to do so. But now we do with these Pop-Ups. These Pop-Up topics will just appear when something strikes us. No regular order or timing, but we hope to do more than one per month at least. In fact, the first three will all appear one per week every Saturday, with the first one in a few hours today. Each Pop-Up will consist of from 10 to 20 videos on the topic. Maybe some extra stuff…