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Adventures
WE ALL GET STUCK AT TIMES… I’ve been noticing lately how I am feeding the creative voice by simply doing something a little different from my normal schedule at times. I seem to have the most trouble in the winter because of the light and the rain. So winter I really need to mix things up some. And regularly. Now I have a life that compared to most is pretty mixed to start with. I am the CFO of WMG, I tend to help out picking for all three of our stores and working with the three managers, I am exercising some, and writing and publishing my challenge. So busy…
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Book Four Out of Sixty-Seven
Yikes… That feels like a long ways to go. I know, I know, one book at a time. (grin) So here is the video I did about the fourth book in The 67 Challenge, a Thunder Mountain novel called Tombstone Canyon. A time-travel western about a hidden canyon that actually exists in the Idaho wilderness. Some of you might remember I wrote this one in July in that challenge. It was published the first week of December. ————– Weekender Pop-Up Online Workshops Are Now Up on Teachable. A couple of these are about half full. February 15-18, 2018 — Controlling Fear of Failure — How to Study and Practice in…
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Curriculum Updated and More Information
Finally, After A Year, the Curriculum Updated… The Curriculum now includes all the new writing and publishing workshops from the last year and the new Pop-Up Weekender workshops we just announced. No workshop doubles up information. All of them are unique and focused in an area of fiction writing and business. The curriculum is divided into a number of categories to help you decide, but I will always answer questions if you are unsure. ————————— I’m Still Working On Marble Grant Novel Actually, making a little progress. And I am still working on getting back the responses to the last short story challenge that ended on December 1st. That is…
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New Pop-Up Weekender Workshops
POP-UP WEEKENDER WORKSHOPS WMG Publishing announces a new category of writing and publishing online workshops. Shorter and more intense learning experiences. Kristine Kathryn Rusch and I have a number of workshop ideas we have wanted to do, but they are too long for a lecture and two short for the six week structure of the regular workshops. To remind you… —A Regular workshop goes through seven or so videos each week for six weeks and five homework assignments and costs $300.00. It takes six weeks to finish a class. Full list and descriptions at www.deanwesleysmith.com/online-workshops/ —A Classic workshop is a retired regular workshop that you can go through as quickly…
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The 67 Challenge Books Two and Three
Two More At Once Tonight… I am 67 years old and decided I wanted to try to publish my age. So on November 10th I started focusing on The 67 and working with WMG on scheduling and such. The 67 Challenge will run to November 9th of this year. That means I have to have everything turned into WMG no later than early October for the book to get all 67 books published. So on November 12th the first book in the challenge was published. A novel called Death Takes a Diamond. It is from my Mary Jo Assassin series. Two more books that count in the challenge for me…
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The 67 Challenge: Book One
Going Fine So Far… Some of you might remember that back toward the end of October I set up a challenge for myself for my 67th year. I am 67 years old and decided I wanted to try to publish my age. Golfers try to shoot their age, so I figured why not? The rules I put on myself were basically counting books the same way as Asimov counted his books. If my name was on the cover and I did a bunch of work for that, it counted. I excluded short stories because I could publish well over 6o of those per year without pushing. So these books had…
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Coast Workshops Update
Thought It Was Time… So here are the available coast workshops and their status at the moment. Here are the dates of the coming coast workshops. Full descriptions at Coast Workshops. ANTHOLOGY WORKSHOP… Feb 24th through March 3rd, 2018. Full and Writing already. FANTASY WORKSHOP… April 14th through the 21st, 2018. Taught by Kris. FULL AND READING ALREADY THE GREAT BUNDLE WORKSHOP… May 5th through the 12th, 2018. A completely new and original idea for a writing workshop. See the details on the Coast Workshop page. This one will start writing in late March. Still a few spots open. Jump in if interested. CROSS GENRE WORKSHOP… September 15th through the…
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A Really Fun Movie
Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle… Might be one of the funniest movies I have seen in a long time. Kris and I, after a long WMG meeting, headed into the valley to get me a Mac keyboard for my large iPad Plus. Then I went picking while she did some reading, then a nice dinner and then a late movie. After the movie Kris sat and read while I tore apart two standees for decoration at our north store. So a really fun evening and night, capped by the movie. We saw the original Robin Williams movie and remembered not being that impressed by it. But trust me folks, this…
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A Few Words About Starting
Go Slow… Due to the fact that I only have so much computer time I can use because of my one good eye and the fact that I was spending most of the computer time over the last month plus moving workshops to Teachable, I haven’t done much writing. Normal for me, since I tend to start and stop a lot over a year and still manage to get a lot of words and books done. So I am very, very good at starting up. And I know a lot of you reading this are starting up again this week, either as a New Year’s resolution or after time away…
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First Day, Last Day
First Day of a New Year… And the last days to get into both the short story and novel challenges and the Promotions Package. Hope everyone is getting off to a good start today. I sure did. After watching the ball drop and then one or two songs afterwards, I went into my office, sat down at my writing desk, and fired up on a new novel. The novel is called MARBLE GRANT and I wrote the prologue to it tonight plus some more. Fun to be back at it. LAST DAY TO SIGN UP FOR THE STORY CHALLENGE? There are still two spots open in the novel challenge starting…