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The Decade Ahead: Second Quarter
Finally Some Posts In April… It took clear to the end of April before I could figure out how to approach this quarter. I want this Decade Ahead class to help writers for years to come on their Teachable dashboards. Help them get through regular times, regular years for the next decade. But at the same time, it is impossible to talk about how to get through April and May and June in this second quarter of 2020 without dealing with this pandemic. So I decided to do both. I am doing a series of videos that will be valuable in general and next April/May/June. Dealing with the Time of…
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Refusing to Go to Bed Before Midnight…
On a Friday Night… But it will be close. I’m tired from a day that I don’t much remember, and I’m getting up early tomorrow to go out into the wilds of Las Vegas grocery stores. I get in with all the old folks because the fact is that I am an old folk. Less crowded and old folks, for the most part, tend to be more careful. And they move slower so I can dodge them easier. And the store shelves are stocked. Just amazing seeing Las Vegas on a Friday night now. We used to be able to stand on our balcony and see downtown Vegas and hear…
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What Might Happen
I Have Been Waiting to Do Some Videos… The Decade Ahead class (second quarter) started April 1st. I have not put a video in it yet. That class was supposed to be how to help writers get through each month and each quarter to set up for the decade ahead. So I have been thinking about doing some videos in that class on what should have been some of the troubles of April for writers. And what might be again the troubles next April. You know, sort of pretend things will go back to normal next year. Very questionable. And I have also been thinking about doing videos on how…
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Back to Work… Not Writing, But Work.
A Very Busy Day… Most of you don’t know that we have a short story workshop happening right at this moment. It was originally supposed to be here, in Vegas, but we saw the writing on the wall almost two months ago and postponed it to a later date, but kept the study along part of it going, since that is all online. And Kris is working some, as much as possible in the format, with those who would have attended in person. So I have been recording lectures, reading stories, and doing a ton of other stuff today. Going on for two more days. Actually great fun and I…
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Creative Nonfiction
Doing a Class On Writing Creative Nonfiction… It’s one of the special classes we do that you can only get through the Writing Bundles Kickstarter Campaign. It will never be available in the future anywhere outside of a Kickstarter campaign. Now, considering how much Kris and I write creative nonfiction, I am surprised we never thought of teaching a class on it before. In fact, some of my writing books that are in the Kickstarter Bundles are written in a form of creative nonfiction style. The clearest of that certain style is the Writing a Novel in Five Days While Traveling. But I also wrote an entire book about the…
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Card Sharp Silver… Day 17
Not Sure Why I Count Days Like Today. A thousand words in 45 minutes out of an entire day should not name the day. But, alas, that is how this daily blog-report started, so onward I go. Normal time to the computer here at 11 am. Worked on emails for about an hour, then switched over to working on the Kickstarter campaign we are launching later this week. I did that until lunch at 2 pm, then Kris and I sat in our alcove looking out over the empty city and eating and working on the Cats Anthologies, getting the first few ready to go to WMG. (Remember there will…
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Card Sharp Silver… Day 16
I Hate Restarting… Five days or so since I wrote anything on this novel, and that makes it kind of rough to get restarted. Annoying is a better term. The day started off as I did a few emails, then around 12:30 headed out into the wilds of empty Las Vegas. A stop at a vegan bakery for deserts for Kris, then a stop at Cinnaholic, another vegan deserts place with cinnamon rolls to die for. Then off to the grocery store. Made it back and got decontaminated by 3:30 pm. A nap, then more email, then a walk with Kris, then dinner and a television show. Back in here…
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Got Some Question On The Half Price Workshop Sale
IS EVERYTHING HALF PRICE? That was the first question I got a few times. — Are all the pop-ups half price as well? Yes. — All the Lifetime Subscriptions? Yes. — Even the bundles of other workshops, like the Classic Bundles? Or Pop-up bundles? Yes and yes. — Every WMG Publishing Workshop, Lecture, Pop-Up, Class, or Subscription on Teachable is HALF PRICE! — At least until 5pm on Friday, West Coast Time. So all day tomorrow and a ways into Friday. That’s right, on anything available on Teachable (hit “See All Courses) right now, just use the code SpringTraining2020 and get any class or workshop half price. (And if you…
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Something Fun…
Listen to Me Babble for 45 Minutes… Live… At 10 AM West Coast time, I will be on the Draft2Digital Spotlight talking publishing and writing with super writer and editor Mark Leslie Lefebvre, who also works for D2D. It will be live and could get silly, because Mark and I tend to get silly at times. For those of you who don’t know, for a number of years now, Mark has been our anchor at both the Master Business Class and the Anthology Workshop. His depth of knowledge of fiction and publishing and his willingness to help writers goes beyond any words I might say. And he likes beer. And…
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Thanks for the Positive Comments
Glad The New Look Is A Good One… I sure like it and am working every day now to update all the information here. I will shout out in a month or so when I think I have most things updated. Amazing how far a web site can get behind when a person like me doesn’t much care about promotion of my own books. I just like writing them and putting them out. But now I figure if I can get this new look caught up, I have a better chance of keeping it caught up. One can dream, right? (grin) And speaking of my books, I have three collections…