Month: April 2013

  • I’m missing something on World Clinic

    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 Working Very Hard While Not Writing, which is what I have always done when I’ve…

  • Container Universes and Create A World Clinic #wabwm

    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 did get 802 words, and the first two sections of the Container Universe chapter done.…

  • Why the B&N contract linking is critical #writer #writers #author

    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 before you sign your document) the PDF notes the URL of the document on every…

  • #WRITERS, Barnes & Noble CORRECTED Its Contract

    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, every sub-page, every page that is marked as part of the agreement. When these clauses…

  • #WRITERS, Barnes & Noble Nook Press Contract Terms are INSANELY Bad!

    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, my personal comments are indented italic. IMPORTANT NOTE: I am not a lawyer. I am…

  • Yes, I’m actually recommending a YouTube video

    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. Download as PDFPrint Page

  • At week’s end, the Core of Create A World Clinic is done

    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 World complete, I face the reality that I am going to have to squeeze like…

  • About to wrap up the Tube of Toothpaste … World

    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 all the things writers generally associate with worldbuilding (and either adore or scorn), and when…

  • Good writing day, plus starting into rebuilding the HTTS site

    Today has gone pretty well. In spite of major napping, I managed to write 1220 words on Create A World Clinic. Working on the Tube Of Toothpaste World now, and why it matter.s 😀 And I’m rebuilding the core pages of the How To Think Sideways site to make it 1) easy to navigate, 2)…

  • The DragonScale Sweater is done

    Back in September of last year, I posted an in-progress picture of the Dragonscale Sweater. I finished it Saturday, and gave it to my future sister-in-law, for whom it was originally intended as a Christmas present (hah!) yesterday. I took pictures before I gave it to her, though. 😀 Download as PDFPrint Page