Month: March 2013

  • A Spiritualist Angle emerges… #WABWM

    In working through the Create A World Clinic, I’m also developing the worldbuilding for a story of my own, demonstrating the techniques I use and showing my work as part of the course. And today, I got the first hints of a practitioner of one of the branches of the Spiritualist movement operating in the…

  • Sneak Peek: My Wallpaper, Blinkie, Shin-Banger Demo #WABWM

    This is a tiny demo scene from Create A World Clinic, but I think it’s fun. And I got it by interviewing a chicken puppet and a player piano, which made the process of getting the details for writing it entertaining. Yes, that’s all worldbuilding. And I got 1080 words today. Black night, and the…

  • Wallpaper, Blinkies and Shinbangers: World Clinic moves forward #WABWM

    Today in the Create A World Clinic, I started into one of my favorite parts of worldbuilding: developing active description. Got 1044 words so far on how active description is different than the passive description that pushes readers to skim, and introduced the three critical elements of active description: Wallpaper, Blinkies, and Shinbangers. It was…

  • Back to the words, and the World Clinic #WABWM

    The hiatus from writing was longer than I’d like, but necessary. Had to get the classroom built, get the lessons in place, get the sales page done. BUT now it is done. Which means I have some time to go in and answer questions in the community. Also means I get to get back to…

  • All my student’s books and names are up now…

    It’s taken me almost two weeks to get this done, do in well, and make it look nice. Your books covers, quotes, and where I had both pictures and your permission to use them, are on the How To Think Sideways page now. Thank you again—I think they look amazing. Right column, starting about one…

  • Sales page crashed for some folks, discount BACK until Midnight-ish SATURDAY

    I don’t know if it was the timer I was using, or the link from Aweber messing things up, or WHAT it was that went wrong. And I didn’t know ANYTHING had gone wrong until I’d already shut everything down and deleted all the discount pages. THEN I checked my email, and found a LOT…

  • Too busy to announce my own launch here…

    How To Think Sideways ULTRA launched yesterday at noon. I’d worked 27 hours straight starting Tuesday at 8 AM to get the launch live on time, and Margaret and I spent all day and a lot of the night YESTERDAY fixing little bugs that hadn’t shown up in testing, and helping folks who forgot their…

  • The FULL List of HTTS ULTRA Quick Fixes, and the FIRST One Live Now

    Just the link… http://howtothinksideways.com/the-cure-for-the-blinking-cursor/ Download as PDFPrint Page

  • EARLY Download: #HTTS ULTRA Pre-Launch Bonus

    I got the first HTTS ULTRA Quick Fix done early, so I posted it early. If you want to get it now (instead of tomorrow at noon when I send out emails), go here: No Longer Available: Course is Here It’s only going to be available until Tuesday the 12th at noon, though, so don’t…

  • Ask questions, get a cool bonus…

    Keeping this brief. If you’re interested in HTTS ULTRA (or even if you’re not, but just want the cool mini-writing workshop you’ll get the day before the launch as a pre-launch bonus), sign up here: http://howtothinksideways.com/how-to-think-sideways-ultra/how-to-think-sideways-ultra-2011-price-for-3-days-only/ Download as PDFPrint Page