• Cave Creek,  On Writing

    Card Sharp Silver… Day 7

    Writing Picked Up Speed… Just wish the Kickstarter for Cave Creek would. So today I managed to get in here to my internet computer around 11 am or so, doing business and emails. Then around noon I headed out once again for some errands. Bank, store for a few things I missed yesterday. Made it back after a few business calls while in the parking lot of the store, by two. Got disinfected and then Kris and I headed out for a walk to lunch. We walked the mile to the restaurant and back through the mostly empty streets of downtown Las Vegas, then back with our carry out lunch…

  • Challenge,  Recommended Reading

    Cats Bundle!!

    Includes my Cold Poker Gang Novel Ring Game… You know, the novel I finished about two or so weeks ago that was a twisted mystery focused on cats. Well, you can get it exclusively right now through the Storybundle titled: CATS Along with some really amazing other books and collections featuring cats. Kris put this one together and it is flat amazing. And SIX of the ten books are exclusive to the bundle, including RING GAME. And yes, the magic of indie publishing had me finish a book and less than two weeks later it is on sale, exclusive to a major bundle. Love this new world. These bundles come…

  • Cave Creek,  Challenge,  On Writing

    Card Sharp Silver… Day 5

    Book Surprising Me… Of course, I had no idea what I was going to write when I started this thing, but what is happening is not at all what I might have expected in hindsight. Really fun and I have no flat idea where it is going or why. I love that. So the day was yet another rest day. At this rate it’s going to take me a few weeks to finish this thing. I hope to speed up at some point, but it was Monday and a bunch of business to do and things. And even worse, I didn’t roll out of bed until almost noon. Got to…

  • Challenge,  On Writing,  publishing,  workshops

    Main April Workshops Up!

    Just In Time For Final Hours of the March Sadness Special I have the April regular workshops up and listed. At least the ones I am sure will be done in April. I might add a couple more later and maybe a new workshop Kris and I have been talking about. But for now, the April workshops available are: #31… Endings #34… Speed #35… Teams in Writing #36… Depth in Writing (Start with this course if new here) #39… Information Flow Those are available for a few hours in the Special. REMEMBER!! Special ends exactly at 5 pm today West Coast Time. And I have shut off Collaboration Class. It…

  • Challenge,  On Writing,  publishing,  workshops

    March Sadness Special Last Day!!

    Ends at 5 pm West Coast Time Today (Thursday) I am working to get the April workshops up as quickly as I can, so they should be there three or four hours ahead of the end. I hope everyone is staying safe. Thursday I start, finally, the Cave Creek novel and will be writing about my writing day here every day, reporting problems, sessions, word counts, and so on. But for now, here is the information about the March Sadness Special one more time. No one traveling. And all of us stuck at home making sure we do not spread this virus, it’s time to turn attention to writing and…

  • Challenge,  On Writing,  publishing

    Mentorship Open For One

    I Said I Was Closing This… But I had one of the writers who just started a few months ago have a life roll (besides the silliness going on in the world where we get to stay home and write.) The writer asked if I would put her on hiatus for a year and I said sure, no problem. So that opens one spot I didn’t expect, and I also closed the mentorships with one spot still remaining open. But I am still only taking one this time and then shutting it off for the last time. So if you are interested in having me be your cheerleader, read your…

  • Challenge,  On Writing,  publishing,  workshops

    New Pop-Up Coming

    How Your Business Can Survive a Downturn… It will be Pop-Up #19. Available in a few days. It will be put inside of the Decade Ahead First Quarter class. We had always planned on putting it in there, with Pop-Up #18 in February and this new one in March. But we did not expect what is happening now when we planned this. Scary times. This Pop-up will help. So the Pop-Up #19 will be available in the Decade Ahead First Quarter or as a stand-alone or in the bundles for Pop-Ups. I will announce it here when it is posted. Honestly, the best deal is the Decade Ahead Bundle, get…

  • Cave Creek,  Challenge,  Writing in Public

    What Is Writing In Public?

    Got That Question Twice Today… Because I mentioned it when talking about writing the first Cave Creek novel. So even though I will show this and talk about it later this week when I start the novel, here is what I mean. I have, over time, basically did a chronicle here of my day, most of the details, and how much writing I got on a certain project. I did that when I wrote the novel in five days while traveling, and that is the name of the book that came out of the blog posts. And I started the practice when I wrote a novel in ten days as…

  • Cave Creek,  On Writing,  publishing

    Some Shared World Fun!

    Cave Creek… Tomorrow, if all things work, a Kickstarter campaign will be firing up called Cave Creek. It’s going to be a fun one and I will announce it here when it launches, either tomorrow or Friday early. One thing to know. The Shared World Class is still open for sign-ups. It is where writers will be not only learning to write for shared worlds (and have been getting background for a bunch of months), but writing for Cave Creek anthologies. I will also be writing a Cave Creek novel in public, meaning I will keep track of the writing here, out in public, on this site, as I do…

  • Challenge,  On Writing,  publishing

    Got a Couple Letters

    About the New Pop-Up… Called “Nothing’s Good Enough.” Basically, this is about how critical voice creeps in when you least expect it. And ways to identify what is happening and stop it, get back to having fun. We put it as the first Pop-Up in the Decades Ahead Class as well as a regular Pop-Up you can buy directly. Why in the Decades Ahead Class in February? Because right about now is when this evil little part of critical voice starts showing its head and mucking around with your New Year’s resolution. One of the questions from someone who hasn’t taken the Pop-Up was if it would help the critical…