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Spent the Night Reading
And Not Even For a Workshop… Yes, I always tell writers they must read for pleasure, but then never talk about my own reading here much. Granted, I did mention reading a number of times when working on the 1.3 million words for the anthology workshop. But past that, I just think of reading for pleasure as something I sort of do all the time. Most in bits and pieces. I am a paper reader. I don’t own a reading device, although there are a number of them scattered around the house. I do own an iPad, but never use it for much of anything. And I do read workshop…
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A Few More Strength Workshop Questions Answered
Been Getting Some Good Questions… So figured I would answer them here. Question: Do I have to start with Regular Craft or can I do Regular Business or Regular Sales strength workshop first? Answer: You can do any of the regular strength workshops you want first. Or just alone. A number have signed up only for the Regular Sales. — Question: Can I work on more than one workshop at the same time? Answer: Sure, you can do as many workshops at the same time as you want. So far this new method and Kris and I doing assignments as they come in hasn’t taxed us. In fact, it has…
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Some Bundle Fun
Bundlerabbit is Nifty!!… If you folks are not familiar with Bundlerabbit, you should be. Especially as a writer. They are doing some wonderful stuff and the website is great. You can load up your work there and curators can put together bundles, or you can curate a bundle if you want. All the details are on the site. Like Storybundle, you can buy the bundle right there on Bundlerabbit, but unlike other sites, Bundlerabbit puts the bundles out for sale online in all the normal places like Amazon, Kobo, and so on. Over this last year I have been in a few bundles through Bundlerabbit and hope to be in…
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Strength Regular Sales Workshop Now Available
Announcing Strength Regular Sales Workshop Just getting these up one at a time. Next up later in the week will be Craft Two. —- Regular Sales: This regular publishing and writing sales course tests your basic understanding of what makes a book sell. Covers, blurbs, wide distribution, expectations, plus much more. This will not only test you, but help you understand what you need to start learning to succeed in the future. In the Sales Two workshop, we will cover web sites, social media, newsletters, bundling, branding, series, and more detail stuff. But this Regular Sales workshop is critical to understanding sales and having the foundation under you in order for the details…
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Back to Writing
Finally Got Started Tonight… Started and finished a short story from a prompt from a fun challenge. A short Bryant Street story, Got it done and had fun, even with one false start. Here is how the writing night went for those interested on this Saturday night. Started with the prompt about subject sort of in the back of my mind. The prompt in summary was basically reburying an old skeleton. So off I went to my title sheets of half titles from old digest magazines. I grabbed a half-title “Tombstone” off of one list and “Cliff” off of another, slammed them together for “Tombstone Cliff” and started typing. I realized…
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Information Overload
Brain Fried… I had a hunch that would happen tonight after almost four hours of talking writing and business of writing with 18 professional writers. Tonight it seemed to all focus on marketing and discoverability. Wow, just wow. So instead of trying to talk about something intelligent, figured I would clean up some business and answer some questions. Thanks Everyone Who Bought the Bundle. Turned out to be a good one and the charity made some nice money as well. So thanks. Questions Answered On Strength Workshops — I want to repeat that there is no hurry at all in taking the workshops. You can work on them at your…
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Freedom in This New Publishing World
The Responsibility of What to Do Next… Friday night about twenty professional fiction writers will gather from all over the Northwest at WMG offices for three hours of business and writing discussions. Without fail I know I will come away from the gathering with more things to do. Exciting things. New, shiny things… And thus back to the topic from last night about always being behind and figuring out ways to deal with it. The second part of last night’s post is the responsibility of choice. I have talked in various ways here this last year about the wonderful freedom the new world of publishing gives writers in all sorts…
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The Normal Nature of Being Behind in This New World
I Love Being Behind… In indie publishing, what I hear over and over from indie writers everywhere is that they are behind. Always behind. A simple reason for this. There is too much we all want to do, need to do, feel we MUST do. And we have to have it done YESTERDAY. I am no exception to this. I always have more things that need to be done than I can cram into a single day. Always. And I honestly am coming to love that. Am I Nuts? I have strong memories of the alternate road. There were times in traditional publishing I didn’t have enough to do and…
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Curriculum for a Career
Strengths Workshops Function as a Curriculum of Study for a Commercial Fiction Writer… At least that is our intent. Let me see if I can explain as I did this afternoon to a couple of other writers who were interested. As writers, looking into the future, the biggest question is always “What do I do next?” Second biggest question is “How do I get there?” Now Kris and I have been crazy enough to try to lay out that path just as someone going into a college would get a path through courses to get to a certain resulting education in the end. Only in these workshops, we also test…
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The Magic Bakery and a Disappearing Bundle
Full of Magic Pies… I have been working with Kris on the Strengths Workshops and in both the business and the sales workshops, the concept of the magic bakery keeps coming up in varied ways. I had forgotten how powerful the concept actually is. I haven’t talked much about the magic bakery here in the last few years. And to really understand all the ramifications of it and how to use it, you will need to take the Strengths Workshops, both business and sales. But for those of you who do not have a clue what I am talking about, imagine your finished story is a pie. The copyright property…