• Challenge,  workshops

    Half-Price Sale One More Day…

    Yes… Now Only One Day Left… The half-price sale on everything on WMG Teachable and the 70% off the Everything Subscription. All that will only last one more day, ending Friday late. That 70% off of the Everything Lifetime Subscription is the best deal ever for a ton of learning for years to come. I kind of surprised myself when I listed all the Classic Workshops and all the great topics. And at least now I have a record of all of them. Half Price And Better… So right now, every class and workshop and lecture and pop-up on WMG Teachable is half price. To get the class or workshop…

  • Challenge,  workshops

    Collection 9-Week Classes

    You Write and Build and Publish a Collection… All in 9 weeks. Opened up three for November/December. The three topics are: Spies Collection Time Travel Collection Relationships Collection Everything Lifetime Subscription folks, they are in the collections bundles. And I will be reading the stories and giving responses to the assignments for nine weeks. Here are the other workshops that are starting up right now, information on the sale, plus mentorships one more time. All of These Have Assignments Each Week… This month we have six regular workshops and two advanced craft workshops starting. (Remember, half price sale going on right now… See Below) ADVANCED CRAFT… 9 Weeks Long… 8…

  • Challenge,  workshops

    November Workshops Firing Up

    All of These Have Assignments Each Week… This month we have six regular workshops and two advanced craft workshops starting. (Remember, half price sale going on right now… See Below) ADVANCED CRAFT… 9 Weeks Long… 8 Weekly Assignments… — Advanced Emotion — Unputdownable REGULAR WORKSHOPS… 6 Weeks Long… 5 Weekly Assignments… — Writing into the Dark — Teams in Fiction — Writing with Depth — Killing the Critical Voice — Applied Deptj — Advanced Depth Lifetime subscriptions to Everything or Workshops, write me if you want the code for one or more of these classes. Half Price And Better… So right now, every class and workshop and lecture and pop-up…

  • Challenge,  Kickstarter Campaign,  workshops

    Last Day for Fey Kickstarter!!!

    Don’t Miss This Book and Two Workshops!! The new Fey novel campaign ends Thursday at 7 pm West Coast time. Last Day!!! Counting down the hours… And wow does this have two great special workshops with it. The first one (which does not seem to be exciting too many, but excites me and Kris) is CREATING FANTASY MERCH WORLDS, meaning building a bunch of merchandise around your book or books or you. They can be fantasy or sf or mystery or romance. It all applies. For example, just on my store alone, (www.deanwesleysmithstore.com) which is still being built out, I have a bunch merch with Marble Grant and Poker Boy. …

  • Challenge,  workshops

    Fantastic Workshops In Kickstarter

    FOUR THRILLERS KICKSTARTER CAMPAIGN… Wow does this Kickstarter campaign have two great workshops. We have never done a multiple viewpoint workshop before and as we got looking at it realized that the techniques to do multiple viewpoints correctly take a lot of learning and practice. Same with using Thriller Techniques in regular novels to make them more readable. Get them here for only five more days. FOUR THRILLERS KICKSTARTER CAMPAIGN. — Workshop #1…Thriller Tricks and Techniques for all Writers… This is a special three-week workshop on the techniques and tricks for writing thrillers. Or just making your regular novels and stories faster-paced and harder to put down. And wow are…

  • Challenge,  On Writing,  publishing,  workshops

    List of Workshops Starting September 2nd…

    Some Really Great Classes and All On Sale! All of these are on WMG Teachable. All start either September 2nd or 3rd. I have put the links with most of them, but if the link doesn’t work, you can scroll through on Teachable and find it. (Search function on Teachable is not great.) Sale information at the bottom of the post. REGULAR WORKSHOPS… 5 available starting on September 2nd… 6 weeks long with 5 assignments… I respond personally to all assignments… $300 Four of these are available every month. This month Heinlein’s Rules is added in for one month only. To find them just go to WMG Teachable and hit…

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    Advanced Craft and Collection Classes Starting…

    Some Really Great Classes!! There are three Advanced Craft classes starting July 8th. They are all $500 each and I will be adding the Sept/Oct classes and Nov/Dec classes in a few days, plus the first four months of 2026. Here are the three starting on the 8th. Advanced Novel Structure Advanced Information Flow Advanced Voice Designed to take your craft skills to another level. FOUR COLLECTION CLASSES These have just started and are nine weeks long and $500 each. You learn about each topic and also write five stories (any stories you want) in that topic, plus learn about putting the stories together and cover design and more. When…

  • Challenge,  Kickstarter Campaign,  On Writing,  publishing,  workshops

    How to Achieve Your Dreams…

    New Workshop Up… Got a hunch that some writers are going to return from the land of The Time of Great Forgetting and wished they had started this. It starts on June 10th and goes for 9 weeks, so right into the first week or so of August, after the Time has cleared for most. Get it on Teachable.  Here is the blurb about it… HOW TO ACHIEVE YOUR DREAMS A step-by-step guide to Writing More, Getting More Readers, and Making a Living with Your Writing. 9 week class given by New York Times bestselling author Dean Wesley Smith and planned by both Dean and New York Times bestselling author…

  • Challenge,  workshops

    New Workshops and Regular Workshops

    HOW TO ACHIEVE YOUR DREAMS… That’s the name of the new class we are offering starting June 10th. How to Write More, Get More Readers, and Make a Living with Your Fiction. Cost is $500 and it is 9 weeks long with eight assignments. Again starts on the 10th. Everything Subscribers got a letter from me about it tonight with the code to get in. Wow am I excited about this one. We have been thinking about doing this for some time now and to help people stay focused through the time of great forgetting, we figured this would be a good one to offer. You can find this on…

  • Challenge,  Kickstarter Campaign,  workshops

    Missing Great Workshops

    They Just Started This Last Week!! Still time to jump in without missing anything I am giving one last reminder here because these classes are so good.. Three ADVANCED CRAFT CLASSES. ADVANCED CLIFFHANGERS ADVANCED ENDINGS FLOATING VIEWPOINTS Maybe three of the most important classes we do. All are 9 weeks long with eight assignments. The Floating Viewpoints class will change what you think you know about fiction writing forever. And destroy some myths. Cliffhangers will make your books move faster and be unable to be put down. Endings will sell you a ton more of your next books. Three classes that will challenge you and teach you and keep you…