All Workshops Switched Over… July online workshop list is now up. But a warning, the workshops that have no one signed up might get either pushed back or switched to classic. We will be announcing two new online workshop starting in July. We will only replace workshops with the two new ones that have no one signed up. And right now, that’s most of them. (Editing, Endings, and Depth are safe.) Stay tuned for the announcement of the two new online workshops very shortly, plus I will put up the online workshop schedule for September through December.. ————- Cover Workshop is going great! All but one has their cover template…

THE ONLY REASON FOR THIS BLOG… …is because I have a streak going. That’s right, for 1,353 nights in a row, I have put a blog up here. That’s every day for 3.7 years. Without a miss, even when I was sick or traveling. I am sure the count is off a day or more one way or another, but close enough. I know I haven’t missed a day in all that time. This very well might be the dumbest streak in all of time. Today I took today away from this computer and writer’s meetings and all that other stuff and went and saw Wonder Woman, had some great…

CLOSE TO FINISHING A BOOK… Managed to get to my writing computer at 3 a.m. tonight. I did two sessions for a total of 2,300 words before 4:30 a.m. with a short break in the middle. I think I finally see the ending on this. So with luck I’ll stumble across the ending this weekend. Then as I said last night, I can put two issues of Smith’s Monthly together, then finish a third novel that is almost done and put a third issue together. All that shouldn’t take more than a week. With each issue I’ll post the blurbs for the stories with the covers, because I have to write the blurbs…

No Real Holiday, Just Same Old… Started the day off by walking out to the south store. A little over two miles is all and a nice walk. I wanted to see how my knee did on hills and it was fine. I can still feel it a little, but not too bad, so on the mend. Our van was at the south store since Billy and Cameron had used it for to haul stuff to a swap meet. I went from there to pick up our north store manager, Josh, and we went and got a new display case I had bought for the north store. Then I stayed…

Meetings, Cats, Workshops, Challenges, and some Writing… Yup, all of that. And more. Writer’s meeting at 2 p.m. up at WMG. I unloaded the car full of stuff I got yesterday in the valley picking. Then Kris and I left the meeting early and managed to catch the wild Gavin in enough time to make a vet appointment. Both cats are in good shape. Then I finished some workshop work up at the office, cooked dinner at home, and went to work on e-mail and challenges. So everyone who is in the June short story challenge or the summer novel challenge should have a letter from me. If not, write…

Read and Sort of Rested… Got most of my half-mile of running in this afternoon when my knee started hurting and I stopped. I have really bad knees from all the years in sports, so I listen when they tell me enough. I’ll rest it a day or two and go back. I still walked two miles on it and ran across the highway without it hurting, but a few twinges on the stairs tonight. Got to get the weight down before the distance comes up too much or I will have more trouble with the knees. Nature of the beast. Then did a bunch of workshop stuff and cooked…