November Workshops Should Have a New Home… I should, if I work late into the night, get the regular November online workshops moved over to Teachable.com in time to send out the first letters by Sunday. But it will be a push. Worth it when finished. As for the Kickstarter Credits, if you would like to take a November workshop, write me directly and let me know which one you would like to sign up for. You get a classic workshop credit with that as well, but you can sign up for it at any time if you want. We still have a few days waiting for Kickstarter to set…

I Think I Figured It Out… I needed a second person to look at the Teachable stuff, so Josh (my managing editor of Pulphouse) and I dug into the instructions and with some side-tracks, I think we figured out how the regular monthly workshops, the ones listed below, will work there. And I think I can make the switch with the November workshops. Once the switch is done, we can get away from all the password silliness and you can keep going back to the workshops for as long as you want. That is the plan anyway. So here we go. If the switch isn’t going to work quickly, then…

A Writer Website… Since I have a massive writing and publishing challenge starting first at the start of November and then the major part in the middle of November, I thought I would begin cleaning up this website some to get ready. — Workshop information links are now on the widget to the right. — List of November and December workshops are to the right and down as well. The sticky post about the month’s workshop is gone. — I removed the workshop links from the top menu. — I removed the building Smith’s Monthly widget from the side as well. — I will no longer combine daily stuff and…

Great Fun At The End of the Night… After the session tonight at the Master Business Class, we called for pictures of the authors in Fiction River: Feel the Fear and also the authors in the Fear bundle on Storybundle.com which has Feel the Fear volume in it. It was a calm picture, but then the fear took over… In the picture back row from left to right is Lauryn Christopher, J.F. Penn, me, Mark Leslie Lefebvre, Eric Edstrom, T. Thorn Coyle, Dayle A. Dermatis, David Stier, Michael Kowal, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Allyson Longueira, Michael Lucas. One very tired bunch of professional writers. (grin)  

Relaxing… To take a break this week from being brain-fried with so much information and learning at the Master Business Class, for an hour each night I watched Star Trek, and Orville. I love the fact that there are two Star Trek shows on right now, even though Orville isn’t actually Trek. And Trek would never dare do such a show either. The Star Trek fans would crucify it. But as a drama-comedy not actually called Trek, but in the vein of Next Generation, Orville is great fun. And fascinating how Orville tackles some pretty major themes, just as Original Trek did. The full democracy episode I watched tonight was…

Is Frazzled a Word?… I think it is, but my brain is too frazzled to care to look it up. So much information pouring in, so many conversations, so much fun. I will talk more about this stuff, all the learning, after this week. I had planned to update a post tonight on Making a Living with Short Fiction. Far too much work at the moment to get to the simple answer that yes, in this new world you could make a living only writing short stories. But I will finish the post next week when the brain unfrazzles, which I am fairly certain isn’t a word. Defrazzles? Becomes frazzle-less?…