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I Spent Many Hours Today Looking For One of My Own Stories… Not kidding. You see, I write so many short stories, no chance I can even begin to remember a small number of them. But today I wanted to put together a brand new Poker Boy collection to premier in a new Storybundle coming […]
Those in the Great Challenge Keep Going Strong… Right into the face of the time of great forgetting. A number who started the first week are working on their tenth story in a row. Fantastic! So far only two have had life take them out, which considering the time of the year, that is amazingly […]
All the Great Challenge Stories… Got a slow start on reading this week, so still have a few to do from Week #6, but every week I am so pleased at how much fun I have reading short stories. I knew that would be part of the fun I would have with the Great Challenge. […]
DAY TWENTY-SEVEN… In my continuing quest to get ten Marble Grant stories, a brand new character who didn’t exist for me three weeks ago, I wrote another Marble Grant story tonight. That’s nine now. One more and I will have a Marble Grant story opening the next ten issues of Smith’s Monthly. And tonight I actually […]
DAY TWENTY-FIVE… Humming along just fine now. Might actually make this challenge, which considering this month, is a flat miracle. We shall see in five days. Today I worked at WMG and did some walking as well. Got four miles in today, slowly ramping that up for the first of May as well. Going back […]
DAY NINETEEN… Turned out to be a fun day today. Most of you don’t know we are having a coast workshop here right now. Fifteen professional writers working with Kris on science fiction. I get to just sort of drift around the edges and talk to them when they appear. Tonight I got to help […]
Simple Update and Information… There are two start dates on this. May 2nd as I said originally and June 1st. It means I will be reading stories through July (If anyone decides to take me up on this) but that is fine. Both are 60 day windows to do the challenge. Another note: I will […]
(Update 2016: About six or so years ago I did the first run-through of this post. I then updated it three years ago. Well, it seems a few people found the old posts and wanted me to update this idea for 2016. And see if I still believe a writer can make a living writing […]
Can You Make a Living Writing Only Short Fiction? Every year or so I look at this topic once again, do the math, see if anything has changed over the last couple of years. And now, here in May 2016, things have changed some, but in my opinion it would still be possible to make […]
Lecture #28 Short Stories to Novels The Basics of When to Turn a Short Story into a Novel. 9 Videos. This lecture covers the various ways that you can turn a short story into a novel. And what you need to do so. And when you should even consider doing so. This workshop covers the basics of the idea […]