Month: July 2013

  • I’m giving away a bunch of my WRITING courses. #free #writing #courses

    I’m doing a WRITING-COURSE GIVEAWAY PRIZE DRAWING as part of my release of How To Revise Your Novel on the new classroom. This includes the GRAND PRIZE: Full free membership in all three of my BIG courses—How To Think Sideways: Career Survival School for Writers, How To Revise Your Novel: Get the Book You WANT…

  • The Adventure Of Creation: Think Sideways Writers Anthology, Is Live #readers

    I am delighted to announce that The Adventure of Creation: Think Sideways Writers Anthology is live on Amazon. I was delighted by the quality of the stories: by their breadth, variety, voices, and skill. I enjoyed every single one. And I highly recommend this anthology to folks who like my work. I’m not in it (except…

  • Winners of the First How To Think Sideways Anthology Contest #fiction #writing

    My fabulous How To Think Sideways Boot Camp moderators came up with the following wonderful idea, here quoted from Katharina Gerlach’s post on the forum: I have been thinking about an anthology with the best stories from Holly’s students for a while. Now, I contacted Holly and she agrees that this is a good idea.…

  • Flash Fiction Anthology Update: Three Windows

    So, anyway, got into the office at 6 this morning, knowing I had a long day and a ton of work ahead of me. And I sat down with another of my flash fiction stubs: This one was Three Windows: A woman trapped in a room with three windows must choose one from which to…

  • The Monster Trial

    Okay. This sounds completely insane, considering everything else I have going on right now, but while I was showering this morning, I worked out a song, starting with the line, “Don’t ever look at me like I’m the answer to your prayer…” Worked through most of the lyrics in the shower, realized it was from…

  • Atheism and Freedom of Religion: Thoughts On Independence Day

    John Carlton, whose work has done me immeasurable good, and whose blog—The Rant—I read with considerable enthusiasm, has a post up on “Why We Blow Stuff Up On The Fourth Of July.”  Which is, actually, about the right of freedom of speech in America. Generally I read without replying. This time, though, I noted that…

  • The First Ever How To Think Sideways Anthology #writers #readers

    I’m passing this very cool piece of news from my community moderators over at HowToThinkSideways.com In May, the moderators of Holly’s Forum (that’s us), approached her with the idea of an anthology. With the 5th anniversary of “How to Think Sideways” drawing nearer, it seemed a good idea to match the release date with the…