Year: 2011

  • Bracing For The Storm

    I’ve been doing HTTS Walkthrough prep and setup all week. Site set-up, lesson template setup, student set-up. Today I did workflow setup. Because I’m doing two projects at once, and because one is nonfiction and one is fiction, and because they are inextricably locked together like Siamese twins—and because both are MASSIVE projects, either of…

  • The Last Moon & Sun and the Think Sideways Walkthrough

    More than a month after I intended to start, (due to Circumstances Beyond Our Control™), today I’m beginning The Last Moon & Sun…which is not the title of the book, but I have to call it something until I have a real title. This is not a little project. This is…well, mammoth. Why? One: I…

  • Tentative evidence of alien life

    Here’s a short article with good links about the possible findings of fossilized alien bacteria in a meteorite. My take on it is “Damn cool if it can be verified.” What do you think? Download as PDFPrint Page

  • Decided to give BOTH courses as scholarships

    Quick note: I’ve decided I’ll give anyone who buys Jeff Walker’s product creation and launch course through my link scholarships for BOTH the How To Think Sideways novel-writing course, and the How To Revise Your Novel course. If you buy through my link, you get Think Sideways AND Revise Your Novel. The course goes live…

  • Full-Ride Scholarships for Think Sidways and Revise Your Novel

    I have recommended Jeff Walker in the past for writers who need to know how to self-promote and how to create income to pay for their writing—he taught me, and changed my life in doing so. He has a new class coming up. But the price can be steep (depending on who you are). When…

  • How To Write A Series, the Week 2 video

    Having learned my lesson from my trials with the first How To Write A Series video I presented, I’m starting out this time with a video that I know works. What a concept, huh? 😀 This is one segment from the second of five Week Two videos in the course. Here I’m discussing how to…

  • A Video Teaser from HOW TO WRITE A SERIES

    I got the video to work. The solution: I took it off WordPress, which was eating the video player code. Here’s The Video This is a short excerpt from the beginning of the HOW TO WRITE A SERIES class. I hope you enjoy it. And in case you were wondering, I drew the mindmap. 😀…

  • How To Write A Series is now live

    This is later than I’d planned—this week held a couple of difficult surprises. But I worked through the weekend, and the first part of the stand-alone version of How To Write A Series is now available. If you don’t know the 192 types of series, or when to use them… If you want to avoid…

  • Update, and moving on

    I want to thank everyone who e-mailed me or posted here offering condolences on the closing of Rebel Tales. And I’d like to reassure folks who were concerned that my closing Rebel Tales meant Kirsten Anderson/Kate Ferreri/whateverthehell-her-name-really-is had somehow “won” that they need not worry. She hasn’t won anything. At the point where I discovered…

  • Rebel Tales has closed.

    Due to the nature of the actions taken by Ms. Ferrari, and to how these actions reflect both on Rebel Tales and on me, and because I cannot guarantee that some other person will never misrepresent himself and his actions while using my name and the name of Rebel Tales as cover for wrongdoing, I…