Category: Big Courses
-
Stress, Migraines, and Stuff You Love
As noted elsewhere—I hauled ass like nobody’s business for eight months to create a way for me to write the novel I wanted to write without having to do it to anybody’s specifications but my own. My mad plan worked, and for the first time since I was an RN, I had a regular, reasonable…
-
Adding A New Way To Pay
Over the last three or so years, since I brought out Create A Character Clinic, I’ve had requests to add another way to pay besides PayPal. I’m finally able to do so, and am looking at three alternative methods. (PayPal will remain my preferred method, but I want to be able to meet the needs…
-
Writing the Novel: Math Hurts
I’ve done the math on Dreaming the Dead, but it isn’t adding up to the kind of progress I want to see. This year, I’ve had The Silver Door come out in hardcover, The Ruby Key come out in paperback, and Hawkspar come out in paperback. And I had the short story “Light Through Fog”…
-
Think Sideways Is Up and Running
I’m posting this a lot of places, because there’s one issue that I hadn’t counted on when shutting down the course so we could do upgrades. The new version requires members to check a box to receive critical e-mail updates (which is good, and will make my site host much happier)—BUT NO ONE has clicked…
-
Think Sideways Students: Course Software Upgrade Downtime
The much-awaited and frequently delayed upgrade of the How To Think Sideways classroom and forum software starts on Wednesday. No one will be able to access ANYTHING on Think Sideways between Wednesday June 10 and (most likely) Friday June 12. No one will be able to sign up for the course during that time, either.…
-
New Writing Course Goes Live
I’m delighted to announce that I finally got my act together and put up Episode One of THE WRITING CRAFT: Dialogue, which is Dialogue and Subtext. Have tested everything, it all works, and you can check it out now. This is the first time I’ve done a pure video course (though naturally it includes…
-
I’m writing, and I don’t want to stop!
I’ve done about a thousand words this morning. My heroine is getting herself in trouble with the police; the hero has cheerfully set her up to be in that trouble while absconding with all her research documentation from a dig; and three bodies, the mess attendant to their butchering, and a second anachronistic Roman-style sword…
-
Two-Hour Fiction (with a nonfiction chaser)
Got a net gain of 1209 new words, in spite of pulling out a couple chunks of previous work. DTD now sits at 9102 words, and I have my hero stuck in the heroine’s hall closet while she and a couple of her grad students are trying to figure out the relationship between the missing…
-
Quick Note for Think Sideways Students and Grads
The Writing Craft: Dialogue Episode 1 — Dialogue and Subtext is now completed and available for download. Onsite student theater (1 hr) will remain available Four downloadable segments of the same episode, each around 25 MB Transcript Worksheet There’s also a long post with a survey here: What Do You Want from The Writing Craft?…
-
My Birthday Bash: Presents for You
Yeah, my birthday is almost here, and I decided this year to celebrate by giving presents to other people. And not just on my actual birthday, either. I’m giving away presents every day next week, plus a couple of presents starting today. So what are your presents? Day One (that’s today): Any two of my…