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The Reader Perception
Never Tell Anyone That You Write One Draft Clean… But Dean, why do you say that because you teach it here and talk about it all the time?? The reason? This is a writer-focused site at the moment. And writer’s seldom buy my books (except to see how bad it really is because I wrote it in five days while traveling.) So I am safe. And it is safe here for you to all talk about this stuff in the comments that we have been talking about this last few days. (Comments are still going in the comments sections of the two posts and the comments are wonderful.) Here, on…
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Online Workshops Update
All Kinds of Stuff Going On… First off, since no one was signed up in June for the Weekender Pop-up Workshops, we have cancelled those. However, the entire group of them, plus two more will return in the fall, after the time of great forgetting. The Indie Game workshop turned out to be a stunner and great fun. I sure had a blast looking at a ton of writer pen name careers over ten years, seeing all sorts of patterns. Of course, the Pop-Up Workshops will remain available to all of the Lifetime Workshop subscribers. You folks can take them at any time you want. ————— Insider’s Guide Webinar workshops.…
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Interesting Comments and Other Business
Comments Were Great on the Last Two Posts… Had some great experience stories and only a couple writers trying to rationalize their way of doing things. Some good discussion and ideas, so might be worth checking out the comments. And thank you, everyone, who did comment in public or wrote me a letter. Very much appreciated and fun. —————– Amazing Writing Bundle About to End!!! This is a bundle that I would get something out of every book. And I have already recommended a few of them here before. And don’t miss Kris’s brand new book Creating Your Author Brand. Plus you get Heinlein’s Rules lecture, worth $75.00. Plus Steven…
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Dangers of Not Trusting The Creative Voice
Things Stop When You Lose Faith In The Creative Voice… I watch this loss all the time and hear about it from hundreds of writers over every year. Not trusting your creative voice is deadly. This came up a couple days ago when I talked about writing clean first draft work by cycling. And how that keeps the creative voice in control and eliminates the need for a critical-voice second or third draft. Got some great excuses. Fun to read. I just sort of felt sad, actually, because that’s like knowing when a person will die. I can see, over forty years, exactly how long it will take some of…
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Because It Got Late
I Started a Blog on the Danger of Not Trusting Creative Voice… And I will finish it on Sunday for Sunday night. But it got late and I have some webinars to do tomorrow morning and I think the fine writers who will be listening in would like me to be awake. One detail of workshop business. We offered a “limited time” offer of buying four cost workshops (to take any time over four years) and getting the Kris and Dean Show or two online workshops free. Well, we got around to finalizing some costs on these workshops in Vegas and realized we couldn’t do many of these and keep…
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Cycling and the Art of One Clean Draft
I Wrote Ten Short Stories in Four Days… Right here, talking about the process every day. And not a soul made a comment about how long it was going to take me to rewrite them, or polish them, or some snide comment about how they must not be any good. Not a one. It seems those types of writers stay away from here. Don’t blame them, honestly. It has to be painful to come here where people are having fun with their writing, doing one clean draft, and making money and and finding readers. Gad-zooks! It must be evil. Nope, not evil and not even a secret. It is called…
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Thanks for the Workshop Comments!
Got Great Comments About My Question Last Night… Plus a bunch of people wrote privately as well. Thank you everyone. Very much appreciated. I got one question that came up in the online comments and that was the suggestion we do this on video online. Answer: Simply, nope. Never will happen I’m afraid. There is a reason people call this a “show” and that would not come across at all in video. This is two very long-term, very experienced, professional writers and editors, in front of you talking and making publishing entertaining and fun while you learn. Not at all sure where, in this modern world, you would get a…
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Floating A Trial Balloon
The Kris and Dean Show… A long time ago, in a land far, far away, (meaning the middle 1990s to about the year 2,000), Kris and I used to do a teaching form that people called the Kris and Dean Show. We would do these usually in conjunction with a writing conference. Or if a writer’s group paid our way to come and give the show for them. Basically, what we did was talk about the truths of publishing and how to deal with the world of publishing. How to get started, how to survive, that sort of thing. Back then that was traditional publishing. And we talked a great…
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Answering a Question or Two
Cold Poker Gang Novels… Since the Insider’s Guide Writing Detective Fiction workshop started up today, and I had two questions today, one in the comments, one privately about which of my Cold Poker Gang novels should someone start with, I thought I would answer that question right here. The Cold Poker Gang novels are detective novels. Retired Las Vegas Detectives solving cold cases. There are eight so far in the series, all stand alone, but more fun if you read them from the first book, Kill Game. Here is a nifty short video about the series. I love this video. Really catches the series. And you can get the reading…
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Workshops Starting!!
MAY INSIDER’S GUIDE Workshops Sunday the two May Insider’s Guide workshops will be starting. The first live webinars for each will be one week from Sunday and they run for four weeks, with recorded videos and assignments every week and a webinar at the end of every week. The webinars are basically me talking for an hour with you folks asking questions that I answer. It is live, but I am the only one on video. Everyone else is asking questions through a chat function. These two are going to be great fun. And I am still laughing about the first assignment Kris came up with for the Writing Detective…