Trusting your characters to surprise you: 1400 words from Friday, reported a day late

Writing yesterday went really well. I hit this awesome surprise, where one of my characters suddenly did something perfectly unexpected, showing up at my main character’s house with a cell phone video showing the impossible in action. It was exactly the weird and twisty wonderfulness that thrilled me, and made me laugh, and at the… Continue reading Trusting your characters to surprise you: 1400 words from Friday, reported a day late

Apple Made Its Decision. My Turn.

Apple rejected How To Think Sideways Lesson 6: How To Discover (Or Create) Your Story’s Market. Not because of links to Amazon this time. Because of content. Lesson 6 includes my “Amazon River” technique, in which I show students how I use a couple of useful bits of Amazon’s website software and the Amazon database… Continue reading Apple Made Its Decision. My Turn.