In today’s Journal
* Seminars on DVDs Flash Sale
* Kris Rusch on Direct Sales
* Of Interest
Seminars on DVDs Flash Sale (Fizzled)
I held this sale back from the general public, wanting to give Journal readers first crack. I honestly expected the seminars to sell out in an hour or so. They didn’t. Knock me over with a feather.
Even one writer who earlier bemoaned the fact that she was not able to attend my live seminars in person didn’t write in to buy a set. If I were still conducting live seminars, I guarantee the fee would be at least $20 per hour, and probably more like $40 or $50 per hour.
Yet somehow $5 per hour of instruction was too much. Head shaking. I have to admit, the results of this “sale” give me a new perspective on some things I thought were locked down.
For anyone reading about the sale for the first time, in a minor update,we did learn that one DVD was bad, but we still have 5 full sets of 6 DVDs ($90 each), one set of 5 DVDs ($75) and one set of 3 DVDs ($45).
Folks, this is literally stuff you absolutely cannot learn anywhere else. For details, see yesterday’s post at https://hestanbrough.com/flash-sale-video-seminars-on-dvd/. But just to be crystal clear, I will not sell any of these sets to anyone who attended the seminars live previously, so please don’t offer.
Anyway, today at noon or so I’ll open up the sale to Facebook and Twitter, so if any of you want any of this stuff, I suggest you email me first thing.
Kris Rusch on Direct Sales from Websites. See “Business Musings: Direct: The Year in Review Part 8” at https://www.thepassivevoice.com/business-musings-direct-the-year-in-review-part-8/.
If you can gird yourself against (or don’t mind or agree with) her political commentary, I recommend looking for her other year-in-review posts and subscribing to her Business Musings blog. When it comes to writing, publishing and licensing creative works, the woman knows what she’s talking about.
As an enjoyable (for me) aside, in the comments on that post at The Passive Voice, Writing Observer, a man self-described on his own website as a “newbie (wannabe) writer,” nonetheless chooses to recommend against following KKR’s advice. My first thought, screaming as it bounced from wall to wall in my mind, was BASED ON WHAT?
So in turn, I suggested maybe HE should list his writing and publishing credits and allude to his vast experience to back up any advice he gives to other writers.
People who don’t have a clue what they’re talking about but who insist on handing out writing advice are about as helpful as the lemming standing off to one side of the queue,
handing out blindfolds to their fellows as they march toward the cliff.
But like most other “newbie (wannabe) writers” Writing Observer seems to feel entitled to display his ignorance far and wide. According to his website, he’s an IT guy by trade (25 years). See, now why doesn’t he blog about that?
Talk among yourselves. I might be off here for a few days. I need to focus on my current novel.
Talk with you again soon.
Of Interest
See “Finding Connection on Twitter” at https://www.thepassivevoice.com/finding-connection-on-twitter/.
See “Writing Insecure Characters” at https://www.thepassivevoice.com/writing-insecure-characters/. If you write what the characters give you, you cannot go wrong.
See “DeepL, the AI-based language translator, raises over $100M at a $1B+ valuation” at https://www.thepassivevoice.com/deepl-the-ai-based-language-translator-raises-over-100m-at-a-1b-valuation/.
The Numbers
The Journal…………………………………… 560 words
Writing of Wes Crowley: Deputy US Marshal (WCG8SF3)
Day 11… 4502 words. Total words to date…… 30311
Day 12… 1098 words. Total words to date…… 31409
Day 13… 2743 words. Total words to date…… 34152
Total fiction words for January……… 24444
Total fiction words for 2023………… 24444
Total nonfiction words for January… 9780
Total nonfiction words for the year…… 9780
Total words for the year (fiction and this blog)…… 34224
Calendar Year 2023 Novels to Date…………………… 0
Calendar Year 2023 Novellas to Date……………… 0
Calendar Year 2023 Short Stories to Date… 0
Novels (since Oct 19, 2014)…………………………………… 71
Novellas (since Nov 1, 2015)………………………………… 8
Short stories (since Apr 15, 2014)………………… 217
Short story collections……………………………………………… 31
Disclaimer: I am a prolific professional fiction writer because of my zen-like non-process. If you want to learn it too, either hang around or download my Journal Archives at https://hestanbrough.com/the-daily-journal-archives/, read them, and try WITD for yourself. The archives are free.