Category: Administrivia
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I’m back, I’m well, and I’m catching up. Tomorrow…research results.
The image in this post is a tiny slice of my taskbar, with my mail count in bright red on my mail app. Lotta mail. I am dedicating today to catching up—doing the help desk stuff Dan couldn’t (because receipts come directly to me), finding the critical emails in my mailbox and deleting everything that…
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Lessons from the Fall: Beta Test Hell
To see if I could make things easier for writers using the How To Think Sideways site, (still with the shop locked while it awaits installation of the interim site), I put together a beta test site using a theme I thought would help, and a plugin I REALLY thought would help. (Both theme and…
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Scheduling a writing life: Follow-up #1
I’m following up on the “How Would You Clear My Schedule” post. First, INTERNS!!! was the cool and awesome suggestion that I leapt on, only to discover that the legal ramifications made it impossible for me to do. (Enormous thanks to Margaret Fisk, who did the research and let me know about this.) There are…
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The Grueling Revision Of Penitence and Disbelief
Where revision is concerned, making the assumption that you have the process of knocking out an upcoming revision well in hand before you start in is an act of hubris that will be punished by the Manuscript God. This I know, for I have walked through the Valley of What-The-FUCK-Was-I-Thinking many and many a time before, and…
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A nice wordpress theme for authors, briefly free
One of my students, Kathryn Kistner, found this. It’s a very attractive WordPress theme designed specifically for writers. I have no idea how “limited time” this is, but the theme is free now, and will be $35 when it returns to being pain. I’m passing on the recommendation. You can check it out here: http://originalthemes.co/author/free/
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10/04/13 SITE UPGRADE UPDATE
MemberMouse, iDevAffiliate, and bbPress: MOSTLY Done MemberMouse is awesome, and Mark and I are about done setting up everything. bbPress has some strange issues that we’re still working out. The iDevAffiliate folks are installing iDevAffiliate because 1) I’m sick of software installation, and 2) They won’t screw it up and I’m so fried at this…
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Triage One—My Jeff Walker “Ugly Workshop” Bonus
JUST ADDED: Jeff went live early. PLF is not available—and you can get his course, and MY bonus, Now. Here’s the link https://hollylisle.com/Jeff-Walker-NOW Post questions about my Jeff Walker bonus here. If you have questions about the course that I can answer, ask them, too—but remember, I don’t know what the price is going to…
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Good writing day, plus starting into rebuilding the HTTS site
Today has gone pretty well. In spite of major napping, I managed to write 1220 words on Create A World Clinic. Working on the Tube Of Toothpaste World now, and why it matter.s 😀 And I’m rebuilding the core pages of the How To Think Sideways site to make it 1) easy to navigate, 2)…
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How To Think Sideways site redesign begins
I have had another brutal migraine. My creativity is at low ebb. I’m struggling for concepts. Writing World Clinic is beyond me right now. So, since this also needed to be done, I started into the HTTS site overhaul. My objectives are clarity of purpose and simplicity of use. I figure getting the entire site…
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I’m officially on Holiday Hours #wabwm
Getting the whole month of December off didn’t quite work out. But I am taking off the rest of the month. I don’t remember ever having been this tired before, but I now have a chance to rest. Mostly. Sort of. UNTIL MONDAY, JANUARY 7th, I’ll do Student Support on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. It’s…