It’s done! It feels like I’ve been working on Vipers’ Nest forever. I can’t believe it, but it’s finally fully and completely revised, and I LOVE the way it came out. This has been a brutal project, because it hit in the middle of personal chaos, website chaos, GDPR chaos… And for the longest time, I couldn’t find the ending. … Continue reading →
Got everything set up yesterday. So for the next week or so, I’ll be doing the revision of the 30,000-word Vipers’ Nest, and following that each day, building the curriculum for my next new writing class, How to Write Short Stories. My Patreon folks will get the inside look at the Vipers’ Nest revision with marked-up revision pages of a … Continue reading →
I’m doing some rearranging of the site. I’ll be adding links to what I’m creating. Aside from semi-regular posts in the blog and the occasional new writing article or fiction snippet, I’ve been running the blog along for years without doing much with it. But here’s the thing: I’m back to writing new fiction every weekday. I’m back to writing … Continue reading →
After a gruelling two years in which I’ve written very little fiction but have: Built a stellar team of folks to help me run my writing site: Dan Allen – Developer Kirsten Bolda – Site Designer Cat Gerlach & Amy Padgett, Forum Head Moderators Carol Englehaupt – moderator Karen Lynn – moderator Chris Makowski – moderator Tom Vetter – … Continue reading →
The objective of writing science fiction, fantasy, (and fiction in general) is to explore the world of what could be, what should be, what should never be — to challenge your own assumptions, to discover, uncover, or invent new ways of thinking about life and new ways of seeing the world, humanity, and life, to expand beyond what is. Standing … Continue reading →
Before I review No Man’s Sky, you need to know two things about me. Well, three, but if you’re reading my blog, I’m assuming you already know I’m a professional SF novelist. So, two. ONE: Back in 1970 when I was nine, we moved from Ohio — where I’d spent my entire life to that point — to Alaska, and … Continue reading →
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” and once I removed all … Continue reading →
How To Think Sideways is going to change domains as well as software. We’ll be moving to Holly Lisle Online Writing school. And we’ll be adding some domains, because while HollyLisleOnlineWritingSchool.com is a good URL from an SEO standpoint, it’s a pain in the ass to type. So HollyLisleOnlineWritingSchool.com will be just the main page, surveys, and the shop, … Continue reading →
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 people in crappy countries” program—which … Continue reading →
I’ve now set the replays for the live chats up so that you can view them and get the downloads without having to login. I’ll add each one after any special offers I do in the live chats have expired (so that I don’t end up with dead coupons on permanent pages). Here’s the link: http://howtothinksideways.com/about-the-htts-qa-live-chats/ … Continue reading →
