Pocket Full of Words

Yeah, my birthday is almost here, and I decided this year to celebrate by giving presents to other people. And not just on my actual birthday, either. I’m giving away presents every day next week, plus a couple of presents starting today.
So what are your presents?

Day One (that’s today): Any two of my e-courses [...]

I worked all weekend, and have been working nights for a while, in addition to working on the course. See, around the same time that I was getting ready to take How To Think Sideways live, I got this request for a short story from an editor who was putting together an anthology. [...]

We’ve been dealing with Fay all day. Internet on and off, power on and off. Mostly on, and the big issue is rain, of which we’re getting a lot. But we’ve got the tornado watch too until this evening.
Lots of fun.
Writing-wise, I’m STILL writing lesson seven, (and saving [...]

I had the most amazing breakthrough today. Still writing the Think Sideways course, and was sitting in the little snack area in our local Target brainstorming the whole world-building/pre-planning process for novels (Lesson 7). My two guys were off looking for video games, and I had my carry-along notebook out and was drawing [...]

I hadn’t planned on the week following registration for How To Think Sideways being a week of troubleshooting all the many things that broke on the system software; thought we’d tested everything, but you only think that until a course goes live and real students start taking it.
Anyway, this week I’m playing catch-up writing lessons. [...]

C Breathes
So I was sitting in the cafe in Books-A-Million waiting for my guys to finish doing Manly Things at Best Buy. I’d forgotten to bring knitting. I’d forgotten to bring my Think Sideways planning notebook. I’d forgotten to bring my “C” planning notebook.
So I picked up a cheap-o notebook, and a [...]

Wow. A lot of questions about that last post.
Let me answer them here:
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Course Feedback
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Some clarification on my “the course will NOT be one-on-one” statement because some is obviously needed. I did not say I wouldn’t be giving feedback. I said I wouldn’t be able to answer individual questions, or to [...]

Thank you so much for the comments on the Think Sideways demo video. Your suggestions have been hugely helpful.

I now have an earclip headset with a microphone that only makes me look a little like a Borg.  
In order to eliminate the handwriting time-lag, I’ll prewrite sections of the whiteboard and do closeups [...]

I’m testing the tools I’ll be using to put together the How To Think Sideways course. Along with PDFs and perhaps some MP3s, I’m planning on adding video to this course. The following is JUST A TEST. While I hope you find the little clip interesting, and while it does set up one [...]

The course is done, it’s in the shop, and it’s available now.
So… what’s in Page-Turning Scenes?

The two critical parts EVERY scene must have? (Page 13)
 

The FIVE [...]