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TICKING CLOCKS
Offers That Will Vanish Shortly… A summary of offers that are vanishing shortly as we head into the summer months. Details below on each… 1… Write Stuff Bundle… one day left. (update: finished and deleted from this post) 2… Lecture Subscriptions…. Just a week or so left. 3… Strengths Workshops… Just a few weeks left. 4… Novel and Short Story Challenges… June 1st. —————— NEW SPECIAL LECTURE SERIES STARTED I will record six new lectures in May and through June. One new lecture per week in this special series will be added. Each lecture will consist of between 9 and 15 videos. These are Advanced, Advanced lectures, taking up where the…
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No Writing Tonight
Just a Crazy Busy Day… It was a Monday. Errands from the moment I left the house until after five. Then workshop stuff at WMG, then home to do e-mail, take a nap, cook dinner, and then back on workshop assignments. Today and tomorrow has April workshops ending and May workshops starting assignments. Crazy amounts of stuff, plus doing some reading on the Strengths workshop and on the short story challenge. (Yes, still taking sign-ups on the Strength workshops.) Plus Kris gave me a brand new novella I wanted to get reading. Yeah, I have a tough life, reading stories. But alas, someone has to do it. (grin) But no writing…
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NEW LECTURE SERIES AND SUBSCRIPTION OFFER
Advanced Business Lectures Now Offered… Below is not only a list of all the lectures available (25 of them), but also the six new lectures in the Advanced Business for Writers lecture series. Plus a list of planned coming lectures. (We will end up after this with 38 available lectures on writing and publishing.) After two years of not doing new lectures, we are back with a vengeance thanks to the ease of Teachable.com. Since I am going to be starting to record these Advanced Business Lectures this week, we decided to offer a special rate on them, plus a special subscription rate to all lectures and upcoming lectures. For…
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A Very Diverse Sunday
I Did Just About Everything Today… One of those days that I worked on just about everything. Started off the day with a writer’s meeting at WMG. Fun discussions. Then Kris and I went for a walk to get some milage in (I didn’t hit five, but got to four miles again). Then I stayed at WMG to work on workshop recordings and the new lecture series stuff coming. Then home to take a nap and cook dinner. After that I managed all my e-mail and workshop assignments before heading to my writing computer. I got two sessions on the novel of just at 1,900 words. Then back to this…
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Fun Auction Tonight
Saturday Night Fun… Missed my five miles today, got four, because I wanted to rest my legs. And had fun at the auction. Every month here in town (on the first Saturday of the month for the past 35 years) there is an auction. More social for me since I seldom miss one, but also there are no minimums and trust me, antiques do not sell out here on the coast. A person could make a living buying antiques worth thousands for $50 here and hauling them to California. But tonight in the hour I was there I managed to get an entire box of silver. Mirrors, combs with silver…
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Lecture Series Solution
Writing and a Lecture Idea… Since I talked about IP valuation in the last chapter of The Magic Bakery, it has become clear that there are levels that might be valuable to a few writers to be offered in some format or another. And got some great comments in e-mail to me about the real need for a bunch of these areas, from IP to Corporation structures to writer tax issues and so on and so on. We cover some basics, very basic, in the online Business Workshop, and we go into pretty good depth at the Business Master Class here at the coast in October. But that is it. And…
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Thirty-One Years Ago Today
I Met Kris 31 Years Ago Today… I had just left the Nebula Awards ceremony in Berkley and was visiting my father for a day or so in Arizona before heading to Taos, New Mexico for a week-long writer’s conference. 12 writers hand-picked by Algis Budry were invited. The workshop was free but on short notice we had to get there on our own, pay our own room, and so on. The instructors were Grand Master’s Fred Pohl and Jack Williamson, plus Gene Wolfe and Algis Budrys. Four of them, twelve newer professional writers. I would have sold anything to make it. So before I left my father’s house (far before…
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The Magic Bakery: Chapter Seven
Chapter Seven… I knew I was going to need to talk about this topic in a chapter and honestly, have dreaded it. Writers, especially newer writers have no understanding of the value of their own work and how others value it. So with that problem in mind, I am going to try to add a level of understanding of value of copyright to this book. For most of you, I will fail at this, but at least I can say I tried right here in Chapter Seven. I’m calling this chapter “Perceived Value” of the inventory in the Magic Bakery. I cannot even begin to count the hundreds and hundreds of…
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Enjoying Some Friends
Wonderful Dinner Tonight… Got my five miles in today, had a great meeting for WMG this afternoon, then spent some time doing Smith’s Monthly covers. Then my best friend and I went out to dinner. He and his wonderful wife are in town for the week and it has been great fun hanging around with them. I have known him now for 53 years and he has put up with me and supported my craziness for all that time. So by the time I got home it was almost 11. I did some e-mail, watched some television, then did some more Strengths Workshop homework and read some wonderful stories from…
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Challenges Starting
STARTED EXERCISE… Number of things happening today. Last day to sign up for the May online workshops. The first day of the Short Story Challenge that I am reading stories for. (That took me some time to set up my paperwork and tacking system on my side. First stories were wonderful.) And for me, I started my new exercise challenge. (I started the novel writing challenge for myself yesterday.) My exercise goal is once again to run a marathon in Las Vegas in November. That was the goal last year and I lost 30 pounds working at it, but I needed to lose more and have more milage under me…