Wulf Moon's SUPER SECRETS Workshop & Challenge!

Today's KYD Monday prompt is a saying that comes from the battlefield.

I leave it to you to research its origins and meaning. I do believe it's great prompt for a military SF story.

Same mud, same blood.

Go forth and conquer!

Beastmaster Moon

Celebrating a Milestone

I recently hit the one year mark with my book HOW TO WRITE A HOWLING GOOD STORY. This is the collection and expansion of the Super Secrets of Writing I created right here after winning WotF to help writers understand the principles that make stories work. Many following these principles have won the WotF contest and many other contests as well, and a good number from the free annual workshop I conducted here went from being unpublished writers to now having professional careers.

My goal with the Super Secrets was to make it easier for struggling writers to climb the mountain, clearing the brush away so the path would be clearer for them to see. From all those that have thanked me over the years for the help given I can truthfully say: Mission accomplished.

The Kickstarter campaign for the book did over $21,000 in funding. With so many Kickstarter pledges for the book, I thought for sure this would diminish support for the public release (I mean, your followers get the book through your Kickstarter, they don't need another copy). Nope. The book had so many pre-orders before release it came out of the gates as a #1 New Release in Fiction Writing books on Amazon and stayed there for the bulk of six weeks. But it also stayed on Amazon's Top 100 Best Sellers in Fiction Writing books for the bulk of the entire year. If you look at the image above, you can see the level of writing books in that category my book is being ranked with--this is no obscure category. It's been on Draft2Digitals Top 25 Weekly Bestseller list of all their nonfiction titles nine times, and on Smashwords it's been at the top of multiple categories for the entire year since its release. It truly is a bestseller, and it's kept that ranking far longer than anyone believed possible.

This post is simply to celebrate the good news, and to thank all of you that supported me in continuing to share the knowledge I gained over the course of many decades to make it easier for emerging writers to succeed in this challenging field. The goal to become a published writer is a noble goal, but it's a great challenge for writers to stay the course long enough to gain the mastery necessary to create fiction that sells to respected markets like this one. 

May you continue to learn, may you continue to apply what you learn, and may you keep writing and stay the course. 

There is a wonderful reward ahead if you do so.

All the beast!

Wulf Moon

Congratulations! I used HOW TO WRITE A HOWLING GOOD STORY to write a short story. It was easy to follow, and the story sold! Made me very happy!

Here's something I'm howling happy about!

ONE HALF of the Volume 41 Q4 Finalists are from my Wulf Pack Writers group! That's right! FOUR Finalists that I've been training in the Super Secrets that I began right here had stories that rose to the Top 8, and ONE OF THEM WON!

I won't get ahead of the public announcement by naming them, but I was beyond thrilled when I found out as one after the other announced in our group, and yes, they kept it totally secret from me so it was a MEGA SURPRISE. I created these Super Secrets to make it easier for emerging writers to craft professional stories that would have the best chance at selling and winning contests, specifically this one! They work!!!

It makes me so happy that this labor of love has helped so many emerging writers. May they help many more achieve their goals here!

And, since it's Monday, it's time for your KYD Kill Your Darlings writing prompt, something all of these finalists from my group trained in. In fact, I know at least one of these Finalists composed their story from a KYD built from one of these Monday prompts. So dig in! There's gold in them thar prompts!

Hmm, you know, that's an excellent prompt. 

Gold digger.

Shiny!

All the beast, 

Beastmaster Moon