NEW SACRED COW REASON
I’ll talk about the reason below. But it has been a while since I wrote one. I have a few more waiting in the wings. (grin) But wanted to do this one before starting in on some posts about the no-time aspects of publishing these days.
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LAST DAY!!! MARCH ONLINE WORKSHOPS
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Remember, each regular online workshop is six weeks long and takes about 3-4 hours per week to do at your own pace and your own time during the week.
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Class #21… Mar 7th … Pitches and Blurbs
Class #22… Mar 7th … How to Write Thrillers
Class #23… Mar 7th … Adding Suspense to Your Writing
Class #24… Mar 7th … Plotting With Depth
Class #25… Mar 8th … Character Development
Class #26… Mar 8th … Depth in Writing
Class #27… Mar 8th … Advanced Character and Dialog
Class #28… Mar 9th … Cliffhangers
Class #29… Mar 9th … Pacing Your Novel
Class #30… Mar 9th … Advanced Depth
Classic Workshops and Lectures are also available at any time.
Full descriptions of the workshops and how to sign up under the Online Workshop tab above.
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TOPIC OF THE NIGHT: New Sacred Cow
Three letters over the past week sort of made me decide I needed to write this new Sacred Cow post now. All three letter writers basically asked the same thing… How can a person learn without being critiqued? Valid question considering the power of this myth.
I have no memory of beginning writers in my beginning days having such an intense desire to have their stories patted on the head (or torn apart) before submission. I suppose it’s human nature.
But I flat don’t understand this crap about developmental editors, or changing books because of a bad review, or not being able to send out a story without a workshop beating on it first. What ever happened to just believing in your own work and getting it out?
So I climbed on my little donkey, grabbed my rusted sword, and tried to stab one more Sacred Cow.
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Totals For Year 3, Month 8, Day 8
Writing in Public blog streak… Day 901
— Daily Fiction: 00 original words. Fiction month-to-date: 00 words
— Nonfiction: 00 new words. Nonfiction month-to-date total: 00 words
— Blog Posts: 1,600 new words. Blog month-to-date word count: 4,300 words
— E-mail: 29 e-mails. Approx. 1,300 original words. E-mails month-to date: 167 e-mails. Approx. 8,200 words
— Covers Designed and Finished: 0. Covers finished month-to-date: 0 Covers
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