The Power of a Streak…

I Get Reminded of Streak Power At Times…

Especially on a Friday night, after a stupidly difficult week. Why? Because I have a streak of blogging every night.

And wow does this streak have power. No chance on the planet would I be at this computer tonight without this streak. But tonight is day 3,920 WITHOUT MISSING A DAY…

That is flat nuts, But here I am. And sometime in March if my math is correct, if the streak does not get broken, I will pass 4,000 days without missing. Internet outage before hot spots, dozens and dozens of power outages, crashed computers, me in the hospital twice. Never missed. Not a clue in hindsight how, but yet here I am every night writing something.

So streaks have stunning power. The key is to apply the power of streaks to your writing and publishing. So many words a week, publishing something every month, things like that to help your writing move forward. Then really pay attention to the streak for a while at the start, make it happen, and given time the streak will drive you.

Even on Friday nights after a long week.

The Kris and Dean Show Does Die Hard… Repeat Information

For over three hours, Kris and Dean will go scene-by-scene through Die Hard: The Christmas Movie.

Die Hard is a fantastic way to learn story. Detail by detail on how to build a story, from openings to try/fails to climax and validation.

Also the movie is great for learning pacing. And fantastic for information flow.

And for building great characters, both main characters and secondary characters.

Extreme depth, great foreshadowing, action sequences, cliffhangers, and so much more. Die Hard has it all.

Kris and Dean will go over the movie, stopping and starting it and talking about each area of the movie as they go and how and why you would do that in your writing.

Fantastic Amounts of Learning for Only $50 on WMG Teachable.

Price will go to $75 after the 14th. Questions, just write me directly or ask here in the comments.

SIR DUKE…

Tonight’s cat picture is of Sir Duke. He was huge and a total love of a cat. We rescued him from a shelter after people had taken him, brought him back, taken him back again, and then brought him back for a final time. We could not figure what was wrong, figuring those other folks just didn’t know how to take care of a huge cat.

And Sir Duke fit right in our place, was a real love, and when a cat as big as he was wanted to cuddle, you cuddled. And as you might tell from the looks of him, he could talk, and loudly.

He was wonderful until one day he decided he didn’t need to bother with the cat box anymore. We had a house of carpet and books and in our house that is a death sentence.

He was declawed, so we couldn’t toss him outside. He would not have stood a chance, and the shelter we got him from wanted nothing to do with him again.

So after looking for every alternative we could find, we finally gave up and with our hearts breaking, took him to our vet to have him put down. A vet tech there loved him as we did and really didn’t believe that he was not cat-box trained after a few weeks. So she asked if she could take him and we instantly agreed.

She had a yurt at her farm and put him in there. Two weeks later we got a call apologizing that she had doubted us. Seems Sir Duke used the entire yurt as a cat box after a week or so.

So she moved him to her back covered porch at her farm. The porch was outside yet protected She set up a shelter for him there, built him a bed on top of a tall fridge so he could see everything, and five years later Sir Duke was ruling that back yard and was happy as any cat could be.

A happy ending to what could have been a very tragic story. He was a great cat. He just did things his own way.