• Challenge,  On Writing,  publishing

    50 Years…

    Sold My First Two Short Stories 50 Years Ago… I just finished recording and putting up on Teachable a nine-week class called A FIFTY YEAR PERSPECTIVE OF LEARNING.  Five videos each week for nine weeks talking about what I learned from my mentors over the years, and from others along the way, that got me to this place fifty years down the road. Tonight, as I was recording a topic on both the weekly CREATIVE SURVIVAL and MOTIVATIONAL MONDAY classes, I got thinking about the idea of doing a class that would talk about what I learned in fifty years from crashes, mistakes, and setbacks and what I learned from…

  • Challenge,  workshops

    These Workshops Have Started…

    A Number of Classes Starting Up… These classes started yesterday or today on Teachable. Special Writing Twists (2nd Session… Only available through the Kickstarter) Special Writing Real-World Dark Fantasy (2nd Session… Only available through the Kickstarter) Second quarter of Creative Survival Second quarter of Motivational Monday #32… Apr 2nd… Heinlein’s Rules (this month only) #34… Apr 2nd… Writing into the Dark #35… Apr 2nd… Teams in Fiction #36… Apr 3rd… Writing with Depth (start with this one) #37… Apr 3rd… Applied Depth (this month only) #38… Apr 3rd… Advanced Depth #40… Apr 3rd… Killing the Critical Voice If interested, go to Teachable and hit see all classes and scroll until…

  • Challenge,  workshops

    Novella Classes

    First Novella Class Starts Tuesday… You can see the information for each 3-month class on WMGWriterStore.com The first class is Science Fiction Novellas. Nine weeks of classes and one month of writing. 4 different genres over the year. For more information, go to the writer store and watch the videos that Kris did about the classes. And the new quarters of Motivational Monday and Creative Survival have started. And April regular workshops are up as well. The second quarter of the year is a great time to reset, maybe start a challenge. Short story per week is a great challenge to get you to the computer every week. And if…

  • Challenge,  workshops

    The Art of the Novella Series

    First Class Starts in One Week… You can see the information for each 3-month class on WMGWriterStore.com The first class is Science Fiction Novellas. Nine weeks of classes and one month of writing. 4 different genres over the year. For more information, go to the writer store and watch the videos that Kris did about the classes. We have another smaller series starting up this week. Stay turned. And the new quarters of Motivational Monday and Creative Survival are starting next week as well. Plus the 2024 words per day challenge in 2024 will have an April restart or fresh start. If you are an Everything Subscriber in the challenge,…

  • Challenge,  workshops

    2 More Days On Sale!

    Advanced Humor Class Started!!! Yes, after all the years of people asking, Kris and I are actually going to teach how to write humor in fiction. 9 weeks long. Advanced Humor class. It is started. Nine weeks long. Also starting is the Advanced Character Development class. And all of the Regular workshops for March. Here is the post from the other night on how to get all this and more at half price. ———— Everything on WMGTeachable is 50% off. Everything. And below are some really cool workshops. To get 50% off, simply hit purchase on the class or workshop or subscription you want to take, then on the next…

  • Challenge,  workshops

    Classes Starting This Next Week…

    Advanced Humor Class… Yes, on March 5th, after all the years of people asking, Kris and I are actually going to teach how to write humor in fiction. 9 weeks long. Advanced Humor class. Also starting is the Advanced Character Development class. And all of the Regular workshops for March. Here is the post from the other night on how to get all this and more at half price. ———— Everything on WMGTeachable is 50% off. Everything. And below are some really cool workshops. To get 50% off, simply hit purchase on the class or workshop or subscription you want to take, then on the next page put in the…

  • Challenge,  workshops

    Some Fun Stuff in the Workshop Sale…

    Great Learning in the Sale… As I said a couple nights ago, we only do sales now when we open a new Shopify store and we had no plans for a new store any time this spring. Thus no workshop sales. But then the WMG Writer Store arrived, and it is getting nifty stuff added every day now. So with the new store firing up, we can do a Teachable workshop sale. So now if you want some class or workshop, you can grab it at half price. Everything on WMGTeachable is 50% off. Everything. And below are some really cool workshops. To get 50% off, simply hit purchase on…

  • Challenge,  workshops

    March Regular Workshops Up For Sale…

    First Full Workshop Sale Since November!! As I said last night we only do sales now when we open a new Shopify store and we had no plans for a new store any time this spring. Thus no workshop sales. But then the WMG Writer Store arrived and it is getting nifty stuff added every day now. Right now you can even get a t-shirt that says, “Setting Would Be Nice.” So with the new store firing up, we can do a Teachable workshop sale. So now if you want some class or workshop, you can grab it at half price. Everything on WMGTeachable is 50% off. Everything. And below…

  • Challenge,  workshops

    Workshop Sale!!

    First Full Workshop Sale Since November!! We only do sales now when we open a new Shopify store and we had no plans for a new store any time this spring. Thus no workshop sales. But then the WMG Writer Store arrived and it is getting nifty stuff added every day now. Right now you can even get a t-shirt that says, “Setting Would Be Nice.” So with the new store firing up, we can do a Teachable workshop sale. So now if you want some class or workshop, you can grab it at half price. Everything on WMGTeachable is 50% off. Everything. And below are some really cool workshops.…

  • Challenge,  workshops

    Summary of New Classes…

    I Didn’t Get Enough Reading Done Today to Comment in General on Stories… So I figured that there might be a class that got missed that we started in all the craziness of the first of this year. So here is a summary of classes available now to jump into. CREATIVE SURVIVAL… Four videos every Monday morning on how to survive a lot of stuff. 52 weeks of stuff, actually. I just put up the fourth week, so a good time to jump in. Find this on Teachable. MOTIVATIONAL MONDAY… We did this three years back and decided it would be fun to do a brand new batch of videos…