I did a survey of folks on my Writing Tips newsletter, many of whom have dropped out of regular readership. Many of whom have a good reason for doing so. The migraines don’t prevent me from working (most of the … Continue reading
I’ve had a migraine for the last three weeks. While Tylenol has helped take the edge off for a little while, it has not gone away completely. The pain was too bad to focus on the really cool, creative things … Continue reading
I’ve been fixing up the How To Think Sideways website for the past couple weeks; reformatting, relinking and in a couple of cases revising old products from my shop to put on my new shop, and otherwise doing lots of … Continue reading
After very difficult last two weeks, where I was overhauling the major part of the HowToThinkSideways.com site, it was sheer joy to get back to writing Create A World Clinic. And while I didn’t set the world on fire, I … Continue reading
First, here is the substantive difference between a contract without live links to the appends, and one with: When you print off a PDF (at least, when you do it on a Mac—if Windows doesn’t do this, consider VERY carefully … Continue reading
The content is the same—only now you can see, read, and print off (use pdf, it works better) every single line, clause, and sub-sub clause that pertains to you. DO print off and save every bit of it. Every page, … Continue reading
This is from the April 3, 2013 Nook Press Terms and Conditions: And trust me, you are going to want to read this bad boy yourself. But I’ll comment here. My highlights of my excerpts of their text are bold, … Continue reading
I recommend stuff on YouTube almost never. After I looped and replayed this for the seventh time today, however, I realized I couldn’t keep it to myself. It’s guitar. A guy playing a guitar. Dead simple. Only…not. … Continue reading
Now, the book itself is not done, and remembering that I initially estimated that I’d be able to bring it in at 30,000 words, and sitting right at the doorstep of that number with Dot World, Line World, and Toothpaste … Continue reading
I think it’s funny that the best analogy I could find for the third stage of SANE worldbuilding was a tube of toothpaste. I’ll do the final exercises and worksheet in that section tomorrow, and then I move on to … Continue reading
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