Month: October 2015

  • HowToThinkSideways.com Site Move: LAST Chance to Correct Your Account

    The move over at HowToThinkSideways.com is starting We’re starting to move member accounts onto the live new software, new domain, and new classrooms this week. In order to receive your new temporary password, you MUST have a working email address in your current account. Here are the steps to make sure you’ll be able to…

  • Writing contest sites, and fiction versus the NBA

    I never recommend writing contest sites that charge an entry fee. No exceptions. I’ve never entered one, because I was out to make a living from my writing, and contests were an unnecessary diversion from my path. Your mileage may vary. But I received an interesting request from someone building a “perpetual writing contest site”…

  • Thank you for the birthday posts, and for reading my work

    I’ve been trying very hard to stay positive and focused these past few months. I’ve done my best to keep working during the nearly simultaneous discovery back in June of dysplasia in my tongue and the final collapse of the HowToThinkSideways.com website (when the shop is unfixably dead, the site is dead, Jim). It’s been…

  • And now I’m fifty-five. Life, health, and…yes, Destiny

    I’m back from two weeks of enforced R&R, recovering from another surgery on my tongue, and then waiting for biopsy results. I’ll tell you exactly what my doc told me. There was bad news, and there was really good news. The bad news was there was a large area of severe dysplasia at the back…