Writer’s Block Classes Might Be Great Ones!
Getting Some Great Letters and Questions…
I hope I am answering the questions all okay.
And since the classes start on Tuesday the 1st, in just two weeks from Tuesday, Kris and I talked about the classes at a wonderful lunch today at our favorite diner, Black and Blue Diner. We will do this for a few lunches and then really start organizing everything in a manner than can be taught. And that will help everyone talking the class.
It has became clear to both Kris and me that the two classes are going to be major learning and also a lot of fun.
They are really going to be fun for me and Kris to teach them.
As I said yesterday, the topic is negative, but the classes will be positive, working on solutions and techniques to make sure when writer’s block does hit, which it will in one form or another, you have the tools to break through it.
So yes, as I said a few days ago, we are going there.
Right into the teeth of Writer’s Block.
When we first talked about this, we defined the term “writer’s block” as something that causes writers to not write as much fiction as they want, or at slower speeds, or without fun, or in worse cases, not at all.
(You writing at 400 words per hour, that is a form of writer’s block. Can’t finish stories… writer’s block. Dealing with family issues or job issues and feel you can’t write as much as you want… writer’s block. Ideas too big to tackle, or not worth your time… writer’s block. Feeling no self-worth or negative family or negative focus in a workshop causing you to doubt yourself… writer’s block. Asking yourself “What is the point?”… writer’s block. Comparing to the success of other writers, money pressure, can’t figure out what next to write, and so on and so on… writer’s block.)
Biggest element of writer’s block in so many instances is fear in one form or another. Very real and very possible to deal with.
Here once again is the description of the two classes…
WRITER’S BLOCK FREEDOM PART 1… October/November (starts October 1st) 9 weeks of classes, 8 assignments, 7 webinars.
WRITER’S BLOCK FREEDOM PART 2… January/Feb (starts January 7th ) 9 weeks of classes, 8 assignments, 9 webinars.
December off and you must take part one to take part two.
The classes also have a weekly live webinars where those taking the class, if they wanted, could gather and talk about some of the battles against writer’s block. And also a place Kris and I could do live presentations that would be better than the videos each week. Answer questions directly as well. (Webinars will be recorded and are not mandatory to attend, so no worries.)
And Steph suggested we add in some fun merch with cool sayings to give to those attending to help motivations. So merch included.
With the webinar and 18 weeks of classes over the two parts, this will be held on the WMGWriterStore. (No subscription from Teachable apply.)
The cost is $500 per class or $900 if you buy them both at the same time.
For ten days we are doing an early-bird pricing of $750 for both. Again it starts in just a few weeks on October 1st.
Just go to the WMGWriterStore to sign up for these two major classes and get the early bird discount.
There is no escaping writer’s block in its many forms for any writers I have ever met. These classes will pay for themselves in just new words and sales and bringing the fun back into your fiction. Most importantly the fun.
Questions, feel free to ask. But first read the introduction on the WMGWriterStore and also watch the video I did there as an introduction. More information there.
8 Comments
Glyn
Hi Dean,
Still recovering from purchasing Lifetime subscriptions. Everything on teachable and anything added in the future.
I was looking forward to these until you announced they would only be available on WMG Writers Store. Can’t afford these now. Will they ever go onto Teachable?
Glyn
dwsmith
Nope. Afraid not, but we have some really good new stuff coming on Teachable as well. And with the $30,000 value at least in workshops there, the Everything is the best deal on the planet. The webinars associated with learning this forced us over to the WMGWriterStore. We tried to do webinars with the Products and Shopify class and it ended up splitting and being hard to maintain on Teachable and what we get the most complaints about with those two classes. However, the webinar from those two classes is still going on at WMGWriterStore called Writer Direct and it is free to Everything subscribers.
In fact, you should have just gotten an email about that and how to sign into it.
What I wish we could figure out a way to include in the Everything Subscription is the forty-plus workshops we have done on Kickstarter. Some really good stuff there and it is not on either location, only through Kickstarters.
Emilia
“the forty-plus workshops we have done on Kickstarter”
I think I have most of them or at least a lot, and they are good. The one I most regret missing is the Obsession workshop which was a part of Mark Leslie’s Feed the Obsession kickstarter.
I did accidentally (or subconsciously) write an obsession story that got an honorary mention in WotF. I really should put aside time and study the Obsessions anthology.
dwsmith
Actually, we have done 62 different workshops on Kickstarter, not counting the two on the current fey campaign.
That is just amazing. Wow…
Aniket Gore
62. Wow!
Emilia
On a quick count I have special workshops from 26 campaigns. Most of them I got both workshops and a few I only got the other one. They range from fantasy which I love to write, to other genres, and genral craft.
They were all worth the money and time. The short story I wrote for How to Write Dark Real-World Fantasy received an honorary mention in Writers of the Future. I wrote it into the dark and cycled like you’ve taught. Also Kris’ story The Women of Whalerock in part inspired me to write dark fantasy with mermaids.
I’ve gotten lucky. I found your blog around the time you and Kris did the first Pulp House Kickstarter and I’ve been backing them since. I’m really excited for the Steampunk and Fantasy Thriller special workshops.
Mark Kuhn
Sometimes, especially during cycling, I’ll change a scene significantly, which changes another scene before and another scene before that. Then it just feels like an endless loop. When this happens, should I just redraft from the original idea?
dwsmith
Nope, fix what needs to be fixed and finish. Rule #2… Finish what you write. You are letting your critical voice into the looping instead of staying in creative voice. Creative voice tends to do it right the first time. You start changing too much, that is the front brain critical voice. Just leave it alone and move forward.
And always remember you are the worst judge of your own work, no matter how much your ego wants to tell you otherwise.