Trying to play catch-up midweek is not the way to go. Lost Monday evening recovering from the weekend. Lost last night visiting my Mother for Mother's day and found out my daughter was at the hospital for a heart issue and didn't want anyone to know, So to the hospital we went. Dad overrides Grands and daughter. She's fine for now but at 25 needs a cardiologist. I had a heart attack that should have killed me in 2014 and survived with no further complications, but it was a wakeup call to change what I ate, how I exercise, and lost over 100 pounds. Would have been nice to have had a gentler message sent though. And now half way through the week and we have another craft show coming up and zero stock to sell at the Taylorsville Gourd Festival Saturday. Whoops! At least its only a one day show. So the next three nights are a balancing act between Family, SKOOL, BIAM Writing, Crafting, Coding, and maybe some sleep. Conveniently as I mentioned in an earlier post, most of my machines are computer controlled so set them running and keep an eye on them. Robots, like AI have a tendency to wander if you do not keep an eye on them. Sat in yesterday on Jason's StoryHackers huddle for the Automations app announcement. I've said before I'm not a fan of automation. but with that many people that interested in it I might have to rethink my stance on it. His tool looks pretty powerful but complex and i really like discussing and working out the details with the teams. @Tewodros Endalew made an interesting post on the Homework post i put up yesterday that really got me thinking as well. It tied in with some other things they have posted recently that have had me thinking of a direction shift. No changes to current functionality or workflows, but what if we added OTHER workflows as well. I've been hyperfocused on the PWS Skill-rooms, but what if they were only part of the story (pun-intended). I really had not thought about opening up WCP for other kinds of writers until @Stacey Brooks response to my Tuesday monologue. I'm listening folks. Keep talking.

(Your Weekly Support & Breakthrough Thread) Okay So I'm stealing this one. Because I'm learning EVERYONE is stealin good ideas from EVERYONE else. Every Monday, this is your space to bring it in. - Your current bottleneck. - Your doubts & fears. - Your needs from the group - Your next big move. Post your question below and let the community support you. 🫶 It’s basically a mastermind. We are using the power of the group to support each other with their challenges 🚀 𝗕𝘂𝘁 𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲’𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗿𝘂𝗹𝗲: 👉 𝗜𝗳 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗽𝗼𝘀𝘁 𝗮 𝗾𝘂𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻, 𝗵𝗲𝗹𝗽 𝗮𝘁 𝗹𝗲𝗮𝘀𝘁 𝗧𝗪𝗢 𝗼𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝗺𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿𝘀. Make your question specific. Pick ONE issue (one bottleneck, one fear, one offer you want feedback on, one thing that's not working, etc.). The more precise you are, the better the answers can and will be! Drop your question below. 👇

I had a different idea for today but it'll slide until next week. I'll eventually settle down to regular offerings you can look forward to each day ending in "y" and expect the same but for now I'm Wild Westing it and shooting from the hip (accurate to about 10 feet or 3 meters for you folks that do it right - we even do math weird in America). I'm cross posting this from the Ink & Echoes Discord Server for a couple reasons. First to share my take on BIAM and using WCP this month and second for some critique on WCP's look and feel. I was asked "Should we use Colm's prompts or our old one's"? My take on this relates to how we learn. If you want to join a group project and learn a new method to do something you really should follow the method until you decide whether it is for you or not. Very few things in life are set in stone "DO IT THIS WAY OR ELSE" There are a few I can think of that I wouldn't want to be the first to experiment with. Ordinance Disposal is the first that comes to my mind--I was offered that job once. Turned it down because I really like my hands where they are. "Writers Write, Always." I thought this was by a famous writer, I had to do some research. It's actually a paraphrase from the philosopher Epictetus, but the actually phrase comes from "Throw Momma from the Train". Which I found insanely funny that the source comes from there. Write for yourself. Write for your family. Write for your friends. Write for your culture. Write for you Audience. Write for your fans. Write for your genre. Write for your time. Write what the money. Have i forgotten any? That's NINE separate audiences that hopefully if you want more success than "I did it" overlap. Very few can make all nine happy, so why worry about it? YOU get to pick your direction, you get to decide what it means to you. I think most of us are here to try to be more productive and successful. So WHO do you write for and WHY do you write? My answer to this: I primarily write for me, to get stories out of my head that I've been writing snippets, scenes, and doggerel about for 5 decades (since I learned how to write and put coherent thoughts together). If people actually read it, like it and it makes me some cash, well I think that would be a pretty awesome thing, but i truly doubt I will ever be able to eat off of what I write. Thankfully that is not my goal and not my source of happiness with what I do.

Tell us a out what you are working on or have been working on this week. Or at least give us a peak. If you need accountability partners to keep going just ask! **** I'm continuing to fight with OBS for quality recordings of classes Reworking the whole class page Editting the Manual files Helping users understand WordCrafter.Pro adding, tweaking, and updating WCP as folks send me needs and requests Because there is a limit to what I can do while away from my desk with some of that list I ummm.... Did a thing on my phone yesterday that I might be able to preview below here shortly. Dealing with the administrivia of life, three teenage boys, and 3 separate businesses I don't sleep much or often. ADHD can be a superpower (sometimes) ****

Tied to yesterdays assignment here are ten throwaway plot ideas. I did this with the PWS prompts directly in Claude asking Market Scout (new skill room added to WCP) for the top 5 hottest genres this month. My Buddy Gideon can give you a bunch of information on this and if you are "Writing To Market". He is the best one to start with to find out where the market is right now. The only other app better might be Publisher Rocket. I then asked the Story Dev team to skip the whole process and give me 2 story ideas for each of the 5 genres and here you are. If one of these sounds like fun, take it and make it yours. 10 Concept Seeds — From the Q2 2026 Heat Map FELIX, MAVERICK, and EDNA pulling at the threads. Two seeds per genre, designed to land squarely in the lane while finding an angle the comp authors aren't already running. 1. ROMANTASY Seed 1A — The Cartographer of Hollow Stars A disgraced imperial mapmaker is conscripted to chart a forbidden archipelago where the constellations are wrong, the gods are dead, and the islands move when no one is watching. She's bound to the expedition's commander — a fae-blooded captain whose family she helped destroy in a prior war she didn't know she was fighting. Every island they map rewrites a piece of her memory, and his. The hook is the slow-burn enemies-to-lovers built on a literal mechanism: the further they sail, the more she remembers what she did to him, and the more he remembers why he should hate her. Trope stack lands clean — enemies to lovers, forced proximity, morally grey love interest, slow burn — but the cartography-as-memory-loss engine is the differentiator. It's a series setup (each book = one new sea), and the worldbuilding is visual enough to BookTok itself. Seed 1B — The Last Confession of House Vergil In a city where noble families settle disputes through ritual confessions broadcast to the whole population, the youngest daughter of a dying house is forced into a binding marriage with the executioner-priest who confessed her brother to death. To save her family, she must enter the confession chamber with him as witness — and somewhere between the ritual and the ruin, she realizes he's been protecting her for years from the inside.