• Challenge,  Recommended Reading,  workshops

    Almost March

    Fun New Classes Starting In March!! The big one is the nine-week Advanced Character Development class in the advanced series. This will be on the same level as Advanced Pacing. Expect to really stretch yourself. And get better and deeper and richer characters when you are finished. I’m excited about this one. And you can still get all six of the Advanced Classes, since we will make sure there will be a time to take them all again down the road if you missed one or two this year. Go directly to Teachable to look for them. COLLECTION CLASSES… Four different nine-week collection classes also start in March. You write…

  • Challenge,  Kickstarter Campaign,  On Writing,  Recommended Reading,  workshops

    Diving Universe Kickstarter Doing Well!

    Launched at Noon on Tuesday… So as I write this, it is less than two days and it is about to hit the second stretch goal and trigger the new series of workshops that will be on Teachable. To say that Kris and I are excited to teach some basic concepts and tropes of science fiction with the help of Rocket-Fuel Rachel and Space-Cowboy Pete would be an understatement. That is going to be so much fun. And got a hunch those two will be around in different genres and in different forms in different classes. So back the Kickstarter, get Kris’s wonderful new Diving Novel called COURT MARTIAL OF…

  • Challenge,  workshops

    February Workshops All Started…

    A Couple A Day Early… All six regular workshops for February have started. Plus each month we will bring back to Regular Status one or two Classic Workshops. We have no schedule on when any of them will come forward. We will just decide each month. Here is the list of February Regular workshops plus the two resurrected classics, now available on Teachable. Note: Covers101 and Power Words are the RESURRECTED CLASSIC WORKSHOPS. They will only be available as a regular workshop for this one month, so don’t miss them if you want responses to assignments. Otherwise they will just remain as Classic Workshops. Class #11… Feb 7th … Covers101…

  • Challenge,  running,  workshops

    Workshops Sent and Running Pictures

    Fun Day… First off, business…. All the Special Workshops from the Fantasies Collide Kickstarter have been sent out. They are sent to your Kickstarter address and they have links, so check your spam filters and such if you signed up one of the two special workshops in that campaign. If you can’t find them, email me. This afternoon I did the last 5K race before I do the half marathon toward the end of the month. I did not manage to drop the weight I wanted to since last summer, but I am still going to do the half. Running and walking. Today the goal was to do the first…

  • Challenge,  workshops

    February Regular Workshops Starting Tuesday

    Plus Others… Each month we will bring back to Regular Status one or two Classic Workshops. We have no schedule on when any of them will come forward. We will just decide each month. (Sometimes it will depend if I can find my old notes or not.) Here is the list of February Regular workshops plus the two resurrected classics, now available on Teachable. Note: Covers101 and Power Words are the RESURRECTED CLASSIC WORKSHOPS. They will only be available as a regular workshop for this one month, so don’t miss them if you want responses to assignments. Otherwise they will just remain as Classic Workshops. Class #11… Feb 7th ……

  • Challenge,  workshops

    Offer For Lifetime Subscriptions Only Two More Days…

    Ends Friday Evening… Once again I am tired tonight, both physical and eyes. Really, really long day at this computer.  So I’m going to remind the lifetime subscribers at WMG Workshops about the half-off sale only for them. So if you buy any of the four lifetime subscriptions on WMG Teachable, we will give you half off on anything on Teachable for the next two days, including other lifetime subscriptions. We no longer do regular sales and haven’t now for months. Just won’t do them anymore I’m afraid, but we do like to give our lifetime subscribers a little something extra at times. This is one of those things. So…

  • Challenge,  On Writing,  publishing,  workshops

    Derivative Rights in Bite-Sized Copyright

    Talking Derivative Rights for Next Three Weeks… That’s right, for those of you who think you know copyright, or are planning to learn it any day now, it is going to take me three full weeks of Bite-Sized Copyright class to just do the basics on derivative rights. And you can’t understand licensing anything unless you understand how derivative rights work first. Bite-Sized Copyright class has no assignments, so it fits with just about anything. You just get the videos every Monday morning every week for the full year. Yes, you can take it quarter by quarter and all the first weeks remain, so you can catch up on your…

  • Challenge,  workshops

    February Regular Workshops

    Six Great Workshops… Six regular workshops, with new ones coming at times. Also, each month we will bring back to Regular Status one or two Classic Workshops. We have no schedule on when any of them will come forward. We will just decide each month. (Sometimes it will depend if I can find my old notes or not.) Here is the list of February Regular workshops, now available on Teachable. Note: Covers101 and Power Words are RESURRECTED CLASSIC WORKSHOPS. They will only be available as a regular workshop for this one month. Class #11… Feb 7th … Covers101 Class #14… Feb 7th … Writing into the Dark Class #15… Feb…

  • Challenge,  On Writing,  publishing,  workshops

    Great New Workshops Available!!

    In-Person Workshops, Study Along Workshops, Novella Add-Ons, and the Special Fey Workshop… That’s right, all available now and up on Teachable…  FEY SPECIAL WORKSHOP… Those of you who got this in the Fey Kickstarters, the code to get into it will be sent out early next week.  It is on the first page of Teachable and it takes the 11 videos Kris did in Lessons from the Fey and adds a lot more videos by me to it. I will dig down into the why of what happened, the writing ways Kris managed to keep going, and so much more about publishing and surviving as a long-term professional. This might…

  • Challenge,  workshops

    February Workshops Now Available…

    Including Two Resurrected Classic Workshops… Remember, the two Resurrected Classic Workshops will only be available as a regular workshop with me giving homework feedback for this one month. They are also still classic workshops. Each month we will bring back to Regular Status one or two Classic Workshops. We have no schedule on when any of them will come forward. We will just decide each month. (Sometimes it will depend if I can find my old notes or not.) Lifetime Workshop Subscribers, just follow normal workshop procedure if you want feedback and write me for a code to get into any of the February workshops. Here is the list of…