Month: October 2008

  • Twitter Updates for 2008-10-10

    Crud. We lost our water today–well died. And was writing lesson. Forgot about the Day Nine Drawing. Doing it now. # Day 9 Scholarship Winner @trettinger Congratulations! # @trettinger Here’s what you won: http://tinyurl.com/4jxjp2 # @trettinger Where to pick your gifts: http://tinyurl.com/3psyfh # @trettinger Contact me here http://tinyurl.com/454f6n with First and Last name, username, &…

  • Twitter Updates for 2008-10-09

    Doing drawing for day 8 prize, have Lesson 14 about 1/3rd done. # Day 8 Winner: @greenforest9 Congratulations! # @greenforest9 Here’s what you won: http://tinyurl.com/3l756r # @greenforest9 Where to pick your gifts: http://tinyurl.com/3psyfh # @greenforest9 Contact me here http://tinyurl.com/454f6n with First and Last name, username, & e-mail & I’ll set you up in class tomorrow…

  • Twitter Updates for 2008-10-08

    Wow! Many thank yous for the birthday wishes. I’m taking the day off, mostly… but going to do the drawing today early, and answer e-mail # Winner of the Day 7 Scholarship to Think Sideways is @Chrysanthemums # @Chrysanthemums Contact me here http://tinyurl.com/454f6n with First and Last name, username, & e-mail & I’ll set you…

  • Twitter Updates for 2008-10-07

    Hah! I played hooky for a few hours yesterday, sat in a cafe, and wrote fiction LONGHAND into a notebook. I feel wickedly great. # Doing the last part of Lesson 13. But it doesn’t feel like slogging anymore. Whee! # Oh, almost forgot the drawing. And we’re into the big prizes now. # Have…

  • Twitter Updates for 2008-10-06

    Getting ready for the first registration day of Think Sideways since the course opened. Making sure everything is working correctly. # So far, so good. # @BklynWriter You’ve done well. That’s a great first thing for a kid to do on turning 18. # @MarcusAmann Where’s here for you? I love the sound of the…

  • At 3 PM Today, The Think Sideways Course Re-Opens

    The charter students for How To Think Sideways: Career Survival School for Writers have hit the halfway mark in class, so I’m re-opening the doors for a smaller second class. You’re invited to take a look at the curriculum, read student breakthroughs from the Eureka Board, watch excerpts from some of the course movies (as…

  • Monday Results for the Twitter Birthday Bash Givaway

    Page-Turning Scenes is still leading, by a hair… Character Clinic 139 18.08% Plot Clinic 251 32.64% Culture Clinic 71 9.23% Language Clinic 40 5.20% Scenes Clinic 268 34.85% Total 769 100% Download as PDFPrint Page

  • Twitter Updates for 2008-10-05

    Up late, working on Lesson 13, the lesson that will not die… # @PolarBear60 Lesson 13? Yeah. Crashed around 5:30 AM on it. Back up to work on it again now. This has been hard. Not big. Just hard. # I’d rather do math than print out hundred of pages. 😀 # Day 4 Birthday…

  • Sunday Results on the “Everyone Following Me” Gift

    As of 10:59 AM, here are the Sunday results of voting on the gift everyone following me on Twitter will receive. Scenes in the lead by a small margin. Character Clinic 122 18.24% Plot Clinic 225 33.63% Culture Clinic 60 8.97% Language Clinic 29 4.33% Scenes Clinic 233 34.83% Total 669 100% Download as PDFPrint…

  • Twitter Updates for 2008-10-04

    I haven’t heard from all my winners yet, so I’m re-tweeting both days’ lists # Day One Winners: http://tinyurl.com/3ekbub @joyfulpilgrim @arcticghost @shuaM @jennyrwatson @Erua # Day Two Winners: http://tinyurl.com/3ul9us @ginabad @CherylRainfield @LisaHartjes @erinshakespear # Congrats to my first two days’ winners. How to get your gifts: http://tinyurl.com/45cm86 # And now I’m going to finally get…