Month: March 2015

  • Unmissable real-life voyages to the bottom of the sea

    My personal experiences with oceans have been in getting really bad sunburns at the beach a couple of times when I was a kid, and flying over the smaller one twice. But starting from the age of seven, when, on a beach in North Carolina I picked up and examined a dead baby shark, a…

  • Follow-up on my resignation from SFWA, with statement from SFWA’s president

    Where this comes from: A new SFWA member happy to have qualified—who is also one of my writing students—contacted me privately to present misrepresentations of what I said here that were being presented in SFWA’s private forums. I will post MY first reply, the reply from SFWA President Steven Gould, and my definitive response: MY…

  • Building a website that creates and promotes your writing in ONE step

    No big secret that Dan and I are building new software for my sites. He’s developing classroom software for me for the Holly Lisle Online Writing School, and connectivity software for me for Readers Meet Writers. BUT, using the same framework he’s developed, he’s also building replacement writing site software for me for HollyLisle.com with…

  • Open Letter to SFWA Upon My Resignation

    Ms. Kate Baker Operations Manager SFWA Dear Ms. Baker, I’m canceling my SFWA membership. While it was encouraging to see SFWA edging toward acceptance of the indie publishing model, it’s too little and too late, and offset by an appalling reason behind the change of SFWAs incorporating state. SFWA moved from Massachusetts to California for…

  • Saying Goodbye to Terry Pratchett

    I was a guest at the WorldCon that was held in San Fransisco some years back, and I discovered on my schedule that I was on a panel on Death, with both Haldeman brothers (whom I had never heard of at that point), someone else I had heard of but don’t now remember…and Terry Pratchett.…

  • Post-Webinar Wrap-Up: Workshops, Downloads, and More

    httpv://youtu.be/ceWebZST1ic We ran over an hour. I knew when I had fourteen pages in small print that I was in trouble, but I tried to get through the whole thing. I made it to page five, because some questions require deeper answers, and I wanted to make this count. What I have may help you…

  • The Free Three-Four-Day Workshop is now open without registration

    Today ONLY, I have the demo workshop for How To Think Sideways open without registration. Just go here: 3-4-Day Workshop. The fourth day of the workshop is the video at the top of the page when you click Think Sideways Forever from the sidebar. 😀 I have for essential writing tips in there for folks…

  • Ask Questions for Tomorrow’s Live Writing Chat: Writing for a living, and Thinking Sideways

    It’s a crazy dream—to sit down and take your thoughts, put them into a coherent order, and then sell what you imagined to strangers. That’s what writing is, and it’s one of the weirdest ways possible to make a living. But the funny thing is, for the first time ever, this dream is actually possible…