Tag: writers

  • Trusting your characters to surprise you: 1400 words from Friday, reported a day late

    Trusting your characters to surprise you: 1400 words from Friday, reported a day late

    Writing yesterday went really well. I hit this awesome surprise, where one of my characters suddenly did something perfectly unexpected, showing up at my main character’s house with a cell phone video showing the impossible in action. It was exactly the weird and twisty wonderfulness that thrilled me, and made me laugh, and at the…

  • Apple Made Its Decision. My Turn.

    Apple rejected How To Think Sideways Lesson 6: How To Discover (Or Create) Your Story’s Market. Not because of links to Amazon this time. Because of content. Lesson 6 includes my “Amazon River” technique, in which I show students how I use a couple of useful bits of Amazon’s website software and the Amazon database…