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Kris’s Blog On Writing With Chronic Sickness
Actually, It Will Be An Entire Book… But on her blog right now you can read one chapter of the book that will be out in April. I have read the entire book, all the different parts, and I think it will do more than help writers, but help anyone who is struggling with trying to find a way through life with chronic illness, as Kris has done. And she gives you a little bit of a hint of what it was like for her and how frightening it was last year at this point. A lot of us were not sure she would make it through last winter. Yet…
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Future’s Series of Workshops
Recording the Start of the Third One… That’s right, done one futures workshop on keeping your inventory selling, another on opportunities, and this third one is on having a structure that will maintain into the future. There will be one more futures workshop coming. Kris and I think these might be the most important workshops we have done, trying to fill them with all the stuff we wished someone would have told us thirty years ago. Future: Structure starts on Wednesday, the 6th. You can take the other two at any point since they are both still there and available. Sign up for any of them including the regular March…
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The Voice Started
A Great Writer Show… I have said this for years, and I will say it again. You want to learn about what it takes to be a fiction writer, a long-term professional fiction writer, watch The Voice. It will not only have some great artist advice, but you will understand the amount of drive and sacrifice you have to give to make it in an international art. Listen to the stories, listen as the season goes on what it is taking for the artists to be there. Ask yourself if you could give up that much, push that hard, take the risks. There is also great music and fun humor.…
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Got Reading To Do
So I Am Posting March Workshops… To remind everyone and let me get back to reading on this fine Friday night. (grin) They start on the 5th and 6th, thankfully for me after the Anthology Workshop here in Vegas. Also the new Futures Workshop: Structure will be starting on March 6th. Sign up for any of them on Teachable here. Or if you have a workshop credit you would like to use, write me and tell me which one you want to be in. March Six-Week Regular Workshops Now Available… Class #21… Mar 5th … Depth #3: Research Class #22… Mar 5th … Author Voice Class #23… Mar 5th … Dialog Class…
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A Glimpse Back Almost Nine Years
Right Here On This Blog… I wrote this in August of 2010. Eighteen months after I got pulled into the indie movement. It is an introduction to a series of blogs I did called The New World of Publishing, but now it sort of serves as a reminder. Thought it would be fun here tonight to look back eight years and and six months. (This has been edited only slightly.) Enjoy… ———————– WRITTEN AUGUST 2010… Over the last two years, publishing has been starting into a radical shift, a move that for the first few months I just ignored. Michael Stackpole, a friend of mine, had been shouting at a…
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Kickstarter Update
Books and Stuff… Over the next few days WMG Publishing will be sending out my collections that are now available to the supporters of my crazy Make 100 Paperbacks Project. Both stretch goals had collections involved. So everyone should be getting an email with those links to get the four collections. (Stories from July and three shorter collections.) Give us some time to get those out to everyone. The three collections that everyone will get of the Make 100 Books won’t be done until the fall, of course. Also, over the next few days you will be getting a letter from me on how to get into the first five…
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Real Las Vegas Workshops Deadlines
We Give The Dates the Workshops Are Held… But that is not the deadline to sign up by any means. The workshops, for the most part, all start months and months ahead of the actual date you need to attend. For example, the Mystery Workshop here in Vegas in April is closed, not because it is full but because the reading list for it went out over a month ago and those attending need time to read. And that goes the same with those in the Study Along for the mystery workshop. We don’t close that one because someone might want to just watch the videos, but if you want…
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Emotion Workshop
I Am Reading a Ton Right Now… Everyone who is attending the Anthology Workshop the first five days of March is doing the same thing. And every year, as we do this, I notice things. Back when Denise Little and I used to do this workshop, just the two of us, and it was a long weekend, I noticed that writers uniformly couldn’t pull readers into their stories. So the Depth in Writing regular workshop was created and trust me, that is not an issue any more. (We offer it every month. Next time up in March.) But over the last couple years I have been noticing that a lot…
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Getting Started On Make 100
Many Steps… First off, next week everyone who supported my crazy idea to Make 100 Paperbacks will be contacted with the code for the Pop-Up bonus, plus to get your choice of Classic Workshop. And also since most surveys are in, we will be sending out the books that can go out. Again, thanks everyone. So tonight, after my eyes got tired from reading for the anthology workshop, I started the first step of cleaning up the Smith’s Monthly web site. Found a new theme that will work for now, loaded the advanced pro part of it, got everything updated on the back side. The theme will work great for…
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March Workshops Up
All Ready for Sign-ups… A good list again this month, I think. They start on the 5th and 6th, thankfully for me after the Anthology Workshop here in Vegas. Also the new Futures Workshop: Structure will be starting on March 6th. Sign up for any of them on Teachable here. Or if you have a workshop credit you would like to use, write me and tell me which one you want to be in. March Six-Week Regular Workshops Now Available… Class #21… Mar 5th … Depth #3: Research Class #22… Mar 5th … Author Voice Class #23… Mar 5th … Dialog Class #24… Mar 5th … Writing into the Dark Class #25… Mar…