Month: June 2015
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One cheer for equal rights to marry
I have long been a proponent for the rights of any consenting adults to marry any other consenting adults. I think my uncle would have lived longer had he been born in an era where being gay was not a crime. I think my aunt would have been happier had she and the woman she…
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Rescheduling the last two live chats.
Due to continued recovery from the previous surgery, plus pending further surgery and the need for recovery from that, I’ve rescheduled the last two HTTS Live Chats. Tue, 18 Aug 13:00 PM Tue, 15 Sep 13:00 PM Replays of the first four chats, plus downloads, are available now without registration or login here: http://howtothinksideways.com/about-the-htts-qa-live-chats/ Download…
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Links between cancer, stress, and overwork: why I’m cutting my hours
I’m here to tell you that there is no medical journal article currently available on the long-term physical effects of writers working ten-to-seventeen-hour days seven days a week for for stretches of up to seven months. (Either with or without a healthy diet and exercise.) However, there is a breadcrumb trail I’m following: Crumb one:…
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The good news is, it’s not cancer.
I had an odd white spot on the underside of my tongue. I’ve never smoked (not even a single inhalation from a single cigarette), I can count on two hands the number of alcoholic drinks I’ve had, and on two fingers the number I’ve actually finished. But I’m fifty-four and female, which increases my risk…
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Medical Time-Out
With my deepest apologies to everyone who is waiting for me to produce various lessons, stories, and training, I am in the middle of a medical situation, and am going to be absolutely unavailable until at least next Monday (June 22). I may need to be offline longer than that. Dan is covering the help…
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Apple is Fighting for YOUR Right to Privacy
I bitch about Apple being a pain in the ass for not keeping old document formats for me on new systems. I don’t like the Apple store’s “Walled Garden” approach. And I think the newest iPhones are so ugly and crippled that I got a Samsung instead. I disagree rabidly with their “free tech to…
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My Hobbit Mural
Click each image to see it much larger. This is the other remaining mural of the three I did in this classroom: The Hobbit, which I pitched to Mr. Rose as real literature that should be worth the same 50 points other Big Fat Books earned when you read them—and I won my argument. And…
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Today’s the day: Live marketing chat for writers—1PM EDT
If you haven’t registered and want to participate (I’ll take some live questions after the presentation part), sign up here: http://app.webinarjam.net/register/4436/e963ecd928 If you already have registered, and didn’t receive your reminder, I’m sending out reminders to my HowToThinkSideways.com members (if you’re not on it, you can still sign up here) as the next thing on…
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Wanna buy a wall? Last look at a mural I painted in 1977-1978
So my friend Jean lets me know that Beaver Local High School in Lisbon, Ohio—the high school I went to from 1976-1979, when I graduated—is about to be demolished. And that at least one of the murals I painted in one of the classrooms there still exists, though not for much longer. She sent me…
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Marketing Your Fiction Live Chat, Tuesday June 9, 1pm ET
I’m trying to get ahead of this chat—I spent a couple hours working on the handouts this morning. Marketing fiction is something that has not been done with repeatable results before, and this is something my HTTS folks know I and a handful of volunteers are experimenting with, with the end of being able to…