Month: June 2012

  • Crippling A Lesson: An Apple iBookstore Ethical and Practical Issue

    Decision Made: Thank you to everyone who commented. BEFORE I START: I’m going to ask for reader input ONLY from Mac product users who buy books from iBooks. If you don’t have a dog in this fight, then no matter what you think about the ethics of this situation, I don’t need to know. I…

  • Dancing the Proofreading Dance for HTTS

    Have just this instant finished the proofreading on the LAST of the 29 lessons of How To Think Sideways. In a second, I’m going to send off the proofing sheets to Booknook.biz, but right now, I’m dancing around the office. Happy, happy, that’s me. With the proofing done, I can move on to setting up…

  • SNIPPET: Warpaint (or How Cadence Drake woke me at 3 AM)

    So there I was, sleeping, and into my mind crept the image of a glowing map, across which stains of blood slowly crept. As dreams go, it wasn’t much, except that it woke me out of a sound sleep at 3AM, and told me something I’d desperately needed to know about Cady, the world of…

  • How To Think Sideways: Weird Time Travel Moment

    I was digging through the weblog, trying to remember when exactly I suggested doing the How To Think Sideways course, and when readers voted on that course above all others as the one they wanted next. And it was here: My Top Twelve New Course Ideas Reading over those course ideas, I’m amazed (and a…

  • First 5 Lessons of HTTS Direct are now LIVE

    And as promised, DRM-free. iBooks isn’t working as expected, so you’ll only be able to find the first two lessons there right now. The other three have been loaded just as long, but have not gone live yet. The print versions aren’t yet available because I haven’t had time to put them together. HTTS LESSON…

  • Reader Interview: Dinner Conversation

    You can have dinner with any one person in history. Language will be no barrier, you’ll be guaranteed to survive the meal unscathed, and you can ask anything you want and the person you’re having dinner with will tell you the absolute, full truth. Who would you invite to dinner, and what would be the…

  • Two down

    Two boxes checked off on my Path to Freedom writing board now. At 11:59 pm, I stopped taking new students into my biggest, longest, and most involved writing course, the Legacy version of How To Think Sideways: Career Survival School for Writers. Took a picture of my board with its new X… Using my iPhone…

  • A little sneak preview of the new shop

    I don’t have everything (or even close to everything) in place yet, but if you want to see how the DRM-free stuff is going to work, I have a couple of books and the first five HTTS lessons available, and I’m moving over the other stuff as quickly as I can. http://howtothinksideways.com/shop It’s still a…