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Thirteen and Back On Pace

A Really Fun Day…

I did my first two webinars today, about three hours total between them. I had fun and I hope they were interesting for others listening in and asking questions. One was on selling short fiction and the other on writing space opera.

The Day

Got up around nine-thirty because I had to be live on camera at 11 a.m. Webinars lasted until 2:15 and then the session of the coast workshop started at 2:30.

By 4:30 I had lunch and I was home and packing boxes and such. Then a nap and back to the office for the evening workshop session at 7 p.m. Home after buying dinner at the store to do email.

Then Kris and I did some planning on this workshop to make it work better, then I finally got to writing around 1 a.m. Interesting to me was that I didn’t want to go over and sit down. I was tired and grumpy. But I did it anyway and as soon as my butt hit the chair, I was fine.

Story #12…

I grabbed my half-title sheets to look for half-titles to trigger me. Found a half-title that was “… Old Guard.”

I figured that was enough, typed it in, and started with the first line of Marble Grant staring at a homeless man. And I was off.

Went back and put in “A Marble Grant Story” under the title and went back to typing.

I decided that if I stopped on this one and got out of the chair, I might not return, so I just kept on typing. No break, which is very unusual for me. But I didn’t want to take a chance.

So at 2:30 a.m. I was done with 2,700 words.

I changed the title to “Old Memories” which fit a ton better.

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Day One… Scared Money… 2,700 words…. Total April words… 2,700 words.
Day Two… Rainbow Peak… 4,900 words…. Total April words… 7,600 words.
Day Three… A Beautiful History… 2,300 words…. Total April words… 9,900 words.
Day Four… A Song For The Old Memory… 2,050 words…. Total April words… 11,950 words.
Day Five… A Brush with Intent… 1,000 words…. Total April words… 12,950 words.
Day Six… Ghost Diet… 2,700 words…. Total April words… 15,650 words.
Day Seven… Rescue Two… 3,300 words…. Total April words… 18,950 words.
Day Eight… The Woman Who Knew The Time… 3,200 words…. Total April words… 22,150 words.
Day Nine… Long Hair Henry… 4,400 words…. Total April words… 26,550 words.
Day Ten… I’ll See You… 1,500 words…. Total April words… 28,050 words.
Day Eleven… Girl on the Bed… 2,000 words…. Total April words… 30,050 words.
Day Twelve… Everything Got Colder… 2,050 words…. Total April words… 32,100 words.
Day Thirteen… (did not write)… 00 words…. Total April words… 32,100 words.
Day Fourteen… (did not write)… 00 words…. Total April words… 32,100 words.
Day Fifteen… Old Memories… 2,700 words…. Total April words… 34,800 words.

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Covers

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I will get to more of these. You want to see all the cool Poker Boy covers that are done so far of the 39 or so stories, go to:

Poker Boy

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APRIL INSIDER’S GUIDE Workshops LAST CALL FOR APRIL!!!!!!!

Still more than enough time to get in. But you missed the first of four webinars.

— Insider’s Guide to Selling Short Fiction in 2018/2019 (Starts April 8th)
— Insider’s Guide to Writing Successful Space Opera (Starts April 8th)
— Insider’s Guide to Writing Serial Fiction (2,000 word parts of a novel) (Starts May 6th)
— Insider’s Guide to Writing Detective Fiction. (Starts May 6th)

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Second week is up now, so I will be closing these off later in the week or early next week. Jump in if you want.

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Class #37… Apr 3rd … Think Like a Publisher
Class #38… Apr 3rd … Endings
Class #39… Apr 3rd … Point of View
Class #40… Apr 3rd … Writing Mysteries
Class #41… Apr 3rd … Speed
Class #42… Apr 3rd … Teams in Fiction
Class #43… Apr 4th … Depth in Writing
Class #44… Apr 4th … How to Edit Your Own Work
Class #45… Apr 4th … Character Development
Class #46… Apr 4th … Writing Secondary Plot Lines
Class #47… Apr 4th … Advanced Depth
Class #48… Apr 4th … Novel Structure

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2 Comments

  • Kenny

    Really enjoyed the Space Opera webinar, Dean, and looking forward to next week’s one. (This time I’ll not bother getting my webcam and microphone ready… 🙂 )

    • dwsmith

      Yeah, that would have been a meeting, not a webinar. (grin) We’re doing that right now with Kris in Las Vegas and all the writers here. She is teaching in meeting format with them and I am helping. Great fun, actually.