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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…
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Relaxing Before the Expo
Expo Starts on Tuesday… So Kris and I planned to spend the day working, then heading out to a concert tonight to have some fun. My day wasn’t spent working, but trying to solve a massive email meltdown. Got it solved and after the Expo will make some changes to make sure that doesn’t happen again. (grin) So tonight we headed off to see Lady Gaga, her jazz performance. Stunning doesn’t even begin to describe it. I hear her regular act is special, but this was her jazz show. Wow, just wow. I think she ended up with seven or eight standing ovations through the show. It was that good.…
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I’m Really Enjoying Reading
All the Great Challenge Stories… Got a slow start on reading this week, so still have a few to do from Week #6, but every week I am so pleased at how much fun I have reading short stories. I knew that would be part of the fun I would have with the Great Challenge. Turns out it is more fun than even I expected. Do I like every story? Nope. Some are not to my tastes. Nothing wrong with them, just not to my personal liking. Others are short on Depth so I end up scanning. I tell the author when that happens. Another editor might not notice the…
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More Videos and Photos
Going to Be Lots of Photos… Not only for those of you in the Licensing Learn Along, but for me to help keep track of things at the Licensing Expo. Pictures, lots and lots of careful notes, and god only knows what else. Kris and I headed out to Mandalay Bay today to get our badges early and also to have me take a look at the size and scale of what we were dealing with on a physical level. Everything is well under construction and the place is even larger than I had imagined. I’m going to get my walking in, that’s for sure. Just round trip to the…
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How Is The Writing Going?
Considering Everything… Not Bad… The Kickstarter just ended, we are preparing and spending a ton of time on getting ready for the Licensing Expo, the Future’s Patience workshop is ending and the Time Travel workshop is starting. And I have increased my steps to walking over 12,000 steps a day and losing weight slowly and spent a little time in the gym running five of the last seven days. (Down 7 pounds in six weeks.) And I have been working on a new web site and learning InDesign to do covers and ramping all that up. So how is the writing going with all that? Actually, fine. And picking up…
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About Twelve Hours Left
The Diving Universe Kickstarter is just about over… It hit all of its stretch goals, which means that anyone who supports it for any reward will get all kinds of great reading from Kris, plus all kinds of lectures and workshops from WMG Publishing. This one is a stunner. So don’t miss out on this great Kickstarter campaign. Only a few hours left!! Ends Thursday evening. Diving Universe Kickstarter. NEW VIDEO ON LICENSING… Plus six images of the four flyers we just got back from the printer. I just put them all on the Licensing Learn Along on Teachable. I will post even more videos in the next few days,…
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How We Learn
Observations About The Learn Along… After my post last night, I got some comments and a bunch of letters that helped me put into perspective what was happening. Thank you, everyone. To me and Kris, we would have killed to be in something like this to learn licensing cheaply when we started out. But why was our attitude so different than so many now? Is it because we understood the value of licenses and others did not? Maybe. Or that this area was just too scary? Maybe. But then the answer dawned on me why we would have jumped at this when young writers and so many were not. University…