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Story Number Eight…
DAY EIGHT… In case a few of you are wondering, I sort of started another short-story-per-day challenge on the first of the month. Didn’t say much about it since I was also working on THE GREAT BUNDLE coast workshop and Strengths workshops. But I have been having fun at this new challenge and today got a few covers of the first seven. So here is my day and such about the writing. Update on the last two day’s stories. Both of them plus the story tonight caused me some swearing and walking around the house muttering to myself. Not the stories, the evening and the writing. All three nights I started…
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Two More Stories in Two Days
Yesterday Was All The Great Bundle Workshop and May Online Workshops. But I still managed to finish a story yesterday and another tonight. Seven stories in seven days. Go figure. A good number of people jumped into The Great Bundle workshop in just the first day after we announced it. Wow, is that going to be a fun week. On Sunday or Monday and into next week I will have more chapters of the Magic Bakery book as well as write more short stories. I am getting a ton of novel ideas out of this month of short fiction. Started a number of things that were instantly novels over the last…
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THE GREAT BUNDLE Workshop. Brand New Coast Workshop
THE GREAT BUNDLE workshop May 5th – May 12th, 2018 Announcing a new and innovative and fun writing workshop on the Oregon Coast. The Great Bundle workshop. So what is The Great Bundle? — A major writing workshop — A series of short story bundles curated by writers. — A promotion web site — A branding of a series of books. First off to the Workshop Structure –Limit of 50 writers. (Same size as the anthology and master class workshops) — Writers attending who want to be curators turn in bundle ideas ahead of time. — For the six weeks ahead of time, five bundle ideas will be sent out per…
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Long But Good Day and Fifth Story
Spent All Day With a Friend in the Hospital… But still managed on almost no sleep to finish a short story. Go figure. ———- The Day… Last night I had planned on working all the way until 6 a.m. and then Kris would get up and we would head into the valley to sit with friends while another friend was in surgery. Writer J. Steven York, a friend of thirty years, was having open heart surgery. His wife, Chris York (mystery writer under other names) was going to need company. They were there for me when Kris ended up in emergency surgery five years back. It was the least we…
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Fourth Story Finished Sort of…
Well, that was fun… Worked on the fourth short story. It is as done as it will get at this point because as I was going along it suddenly became very clear to me that this story would be a novel. So I pretended to wrap it up and just call it done, but not showing it to anyone. A very future novel. See below ———- The Day… Got up to WMG by 2 p.m. and worked on a new project we will announce shortly. Totally nuts, but in a good way I hope. Also took a long walk to get steps. Then home to cook dinner and do the assignments…
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The Magic Bakery: Chapter Three
Chapter Three… How do you slice a magic pie? The answer is simply as many ways as you want. The wonderful thing about copyright is that you can license any part of it. And you can name the part and dictate the terms and define the shape of the part. I know this is difficult to imagine. And the pie analogy sort of falls apart because pie is a physical thing that can only be sliced in so many ways. But image the pie is solid and you have a saw that can slice off a piece so thin you can barely see the slice under a microscope. Yup, you…
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Third Story Finished and April Workshops Starting
ANOTHER GOOD DAY… Got the short story challenge going strong. Finished a third short story tonight and finished up another chapter on the Magic Bakery book. A good solid day and a lot of fun. ———- The Day… Got up to WMG by 2 p.m. and worked on covers for a couple of my collections and a bunch of workshop stuff. Also took a long walk to get steps. Then home to cook dinner and do the assignments for the workshops. Then off to watch The Voice. Back here around 2 a.m. and I wrote the chapter of the Magic Bakery. Then around 3 a.m., I went for half-titles to get…
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Second Story Finished
OFF TO A DECENT START… Got the short story challenge going strong. Finished a second short story tonight. Also today went to the writer’s lunch and worked a bunch on workshop stuff. A good solid day and a lot of fun. ———- The Day… Got up to WMG by 2 p.m. for the writer’s lunch. Then around 4 Kris and I went for a walk. I only managed four miles today, which is fine as I ramp this back up. I got back to my office around 5:30 and worked there until almost eight on workshop stuff. Store and then home to cook dinner. Did some e-mail and more workshop…
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Starting Up… Here We Go…
TRACKING EVERYTHING PLUS A CHALLENGE… All starting up again as many of you have asked me to do for a time. So I will be tracking writing, exercise, and also a new short story challenge for at least this month and maybe longer. Also sort of going over what I did each day so you can see how crazy my life is and how I still manage to write a bunch. And I will continue with The Magic Bakery book as well. ———- The Day… A good day overall. Got up to WMG in the middle of the afternoon after doing some e-mail. Then after a little work there and…
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A Workshop Night
April Online Workshops… Everyone who is signed up should have gotten a letter from me tonight. If you are signed up and didn’t get the letter, write me. The April Online Workshops start on Tuesday and Wednesday and still lots of room to jump into any of them. It’s a good list this month. Any questions, feel free to write me. Information on each workshop under the Online Workshops tab at the top. And if you are confused as to which workshop to take first, we have a full curriculum posted on its own page. Class #31… Apr 4th … Writing Thrillers Class #32… Apr 4th … Point of View Class #33… Apr 4th…