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Getting Ready…
A Bunch to Learn or Relearn… Just to get ready to start this challenge of writing a novel every two weeks. And do collections. And other books. I got to relearn all over how to find art that is not AI. I got to relearn InDesign, which I have already started on and having a blast. Double column layouts of Smith’s Monthly issues will be a challenge. Using Vellum for regular books will seem easy people tell me. Getting my learning back up to full on Shopify will take a little time, but looking forward to that this coming year. None of that is the writing side, just the publishing…
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Limits in Writing and Publishing…
Everyone Sets Their Own Limits… Actually not completely true. Everyone’s limits are set by what they learned from others, mostly non-writers spouting myths they learned at some point. And there are major myths that most writers never get past. — Writing Fast Is Writing Poorly — Everything Must Be Rewritten — Everything Must Be Perfect Before Publishing These myths and so many more are what limits each writer. And the myths were encouraged by agents who were never writers and also traditional publishing that could only handle so many books from a writer, usually just one per year. And the fear of what others will think stops millions of writers…
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One More Time Before Moving On…
All Kinds of Great Learning… Putting this here again because honestly it is quick and the internet at this time of the morning is going and coming… Oh, fun. So I am doing these and only one person so far has signed up on the Kickstarter Mentorship and still have two on the Sales Mentorship. After this post moving on to other fun stuff. KICKSTARTER MENTORSHIP… That’s right, one-on-one, I will help you build and launch a book kickstarter in the next three or four months that will fund, (I guarantee if you do as I say) and get you readers for your books, then I will continue to help…
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Fall Indie Writing Festival Starting…
Five Videos Plus Extras About Reviews on First Day… Just getting started and this time around, instead of offering the 20 or so people signed up (yes, still room to jump in), we are making all of WMG Teachable Courses half price. All six hundred plus of them. For everyone… And we will give you an even better discount on the Lifetime Everything Subscription to WMG Teachable. Ask me if interested. This first week is all on Readers and Fans and getting more of both, which also means you will make more money. Here is the basic information on the Fall Indie Writing Festival followed by the basic information on…
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Mentorships and Fall Writing Festival Starting
All Kinds of Great Learning… KICKSTARTER MENTORSHIP… That’s right, one-on-one, I will help you build and launch a book kickstarter in the next three or four months that will fund, and get you readers for your books, then I will continue to help you with how to fulfill the campaign. You can start any time you want with this. Even into next year, but need to sign up now. I will cut this off after a few. And then in the following six months after the first one is done, I will help you with a second campaign. You will have two successful campaigns from this and have the confidence…
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Personal Sales Help Mentorship
Two Spots Still Open… I still have room for two more writers. And you can start now or next year, either is fine. Here is why I am going to do this. To put it bluntly, many writers are simply creating stories that won’t sell for one reason or another, often having nothing to do with craft. Sometimes learning this stuff early helps before you get to twenty or more major titles published, but often a writer gets to that discoverability threshold of 20 books and still does not see an increase in sales. That means something is off in the product. (At that point, the story is a product.)…
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Last Day for Early Bird Discount!!!
FALL INDIE WRITING FESTIVAL… Online October 20th through November 14th Going to put this basic information here again since we still have more than enough spots open. We will have a minimum of five videos a day, often over ten when we do special focus things. There will be between 150 and 200 learning videos in the four weeks you can do on your own time. No assignments at all. But staying up with the videos as they go along also allows you to ask questions, which is an important part of this. Kris and I will answer the questions either in an email if personal, or in a video…
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FALL INDIE WRITING FESTIVAL…
FALL INDIE WRITING FESTIVAL… Online October 20th through November 14th Since we did the last master class back six or seven years ago, we have been trying to come up with a way to bring everything in indie publishing and writing together. And have it all presented in a way that makes sense. With our regular workshops and classes and such, there are so many gaps of large areas we are missing that we want to cover. Really important gaps to indie writers and publishers. So this last summer in our INDIE WRITING CAMP, we did our best in an orderly fashion that we hoped helped writers of all levels…
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My Challenge
Four Months Left… My challenge had two parts. First, the idea was to write a short story per day for the entire year. Second, to get my writing back up to over Pulp Speed One, which is one million words a year. The year started off rough right from the start, with a ton of business things that just overwhelmed everything. Called a life roll, and I sort of expected it but hoped I could drive through it. Nope. It was just too much. But my word count has been hanging around the pace to make one million words, so that part I think I can smash through in the…
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A Saying That Has Stuck With Me…
Printed and Framed On a Card… This saying has been in my writing offices for 43 years now. Don’t really care who originally said it. But it came about because Nina Kiriki Hoffman and I were challenging each other to write one story per week, not rewrite it, and put it in the mail. Nina called it “Dare to Be Bad” and that stuck. And is the reason both of us started selling regularly. Takes far, far more courage to write and put out your work than to be so afraid as to not write and not publish anything. And that’s a fact. So the saying I have had in…