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July Workshops Available
Including Both Writing Time Travel and Writing Westerns… A great list in July, but they start early this year, the 2nd and 3rd. So keep that in mind. You can still do the first week after the big US holiday, but the workshops start before the holiday. Lifetime subscribers, I will get the Writing Western workshop over into the subscription this next week. Interesting how many new workshops we have done this year. Four different Futures workshops, Emotion, Time Travel, and now Writing Westerns. Seven new workshops and the year is just half done. And four older workshops moved to Classic. So at $300 a workshop, just this spring came…
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Day Four of Ramp Up
Finally Hit All Parts… I managed a bunch of words this morning, made 12,000 steps for the second day in a row, and am down five pounds this week (clearly a lot of that was surface weight.) The weight loss will level at 2 pounds a week going forward. Plus today I actually ran a mile. (In parts, 1/8th of a mile at a time) but a mile anyway. Basically doing intervals, some fast, some medium. For an old fat guy, I still have amazing speed when I kick it on. Surprised me, actually. I am behind on my challenge reading, but should catch that up this weekend without a…
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I Did Another Podcast
A Second One When I Was At Writers of the Future... John Goodwin, the President of Galaxy Press did the interview. It was great fun. This one was about old pulp writers, rewriting, and clean first drafts, among other things. I think this is about 15 minutes, so worth the time to listen to me and John talk about the old writers. And I got a detail wrong in my old mind. Lester Dent was a real name who wrote 159 Doc Savage novels under the name Kenneth Robeson. Lester Dent was not a pen name. Max Brand was a pen name of Frederick Faust. Names, I am not allowed…
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How To Approach a Licensee?
Tough Question… And honestly, I don’t know the answer to that exactly because it will be different for every license you give. And different for every project you have. And different for every licensee. Some approach you, others you approach through meetings. So no right answer. For example, you might have a really nifty young adult series with teddy bears, so you would research and set up meetings with teddy bear companies. But you wouldn’t do that with your tech-filled sf series. (Unless it was a very strange series.) Robert Jeschonek wrote an amazing story about sentient underwear that was first published in Fiction River and then I bought it…
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Day One of Ramp Up
Partially Successful… So a good start. No writing, almost 12,000 steps, did some running, and got the food intake under control. Tomorrow I will add in the writing, get over 12,000 steps, and repeat the rest. Tonight, while walking, I set a new goal for myself, longer term than just 100 days for the weight. I want to hit 167 pounds, with luck by October 1st. If I do that, it will mean I have lost 100 pounds since my heaviest. So a great goal. I also want to be able to do ten pull-ups at that point at least. Can’t do one right now. Not a one. So got…
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Tomorrow Starts…
Ramp Up On Exercise… Going to hit it hard. I kind of let my steps and other stuff slip after the Licensing Expo. So tomorrow I ramp for the summer. Going to 12,000 steps a day and try to keep that as a streak and no more than 1,200-1,500 calories a day intake on most days. That will drop two pounds a week, a top line on healthy weight loss. It’s a famous diet I am using. Eat Less and Move Around More. I’ve lost over 60 pounds doing that so far, and I got a marathon to run this fall. Marathon running weight is exactly 25 pounds under where…
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Not Much Tonight
Just Reading and Doing Videos… Reading Challenge stories, which are great fun, and recording a few videos for the Licensing Learn Along. Also managed to get back to writing on the new Cold Poker Gang novel as well. So great fun today all the way around, just not much to report on this Saturday night. So maybe I’ll start into a new book and lecture on Trademarks for Writers sometime this next week. Guess it’s time. (Update, wrote this early this morning, and thanks to a glitch it didn’t publish, so here it is now.)
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June Workshops
All Started… And still time to not only jump into any of them, but jump into the Learn Along Licensing workshop as well. All of that is on Teachable. Today I put up five new videos on the Licensing Learn Along and I hope everyone taking Licensing has gone through the free classic workshop The Magic Bakery that comes along with it. You will miss lots of stuff if you don’t. So next week I will put up the July regular workshops and take down the June ones. So still time for the workshops below, but not much. Class #51… June 4th … Endings Class #52… June 4th … Point of View…
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Expo Finished…
I Put Up Four More Videos and a Bunch of Pictures… On the Licensing Learn Along on Teachable. I will do three or four more days of videos and stuff over this weekend in the Expo section, even though the Expo is over. Then I will go to the third section will have stuff for a month or so on the results, the long-term learning, and a ton more details. Really worth jumping into that if you haven’t already, if not for anything but to do the Classic Magic Bakery basics workshop that I give away in that. But the conference was just amazing. Mind altering, of that there was…
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Time Travel and June Workshops Starting
Time Travel Regular Workshop Available… You can sign up for any of the June workshops on Teachable. And the first half of them have started. If you bought a workshop credit in the Diving Universe Kickstarter and want to jump into a June workshop, just write me. Otherwise, everyone will be contacted early next week as soon as Kickstarter gives us the go-ahead. But if you want to start a June workshop with one of those credits, just write me directly. Here is the list of the June workshops. Class #51… June 4th … Endings Class #52… June 4th … Point of View Class #53… June 4th … Time Travel Class #54… June…