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

Last 6 hours of my HOW TO WRITE A NOVEL Early-Bird Sale

At the top of this (and every) page on the site, you’ll currently see a little timer. Today is the last day of my How to Write a Novel Early-Bird Launch, where the price is about 50% off my projected final price once the class is done. And as I write this, we’re down to… Continue reading Last 6 hours of my HOW TO WRITE A NOVEL Early-Bird Sale

Two down

Two boxes checked off on my Path to Freedom writing board now. At 11:59 pm, I stopped taking new students into my biggest, longest, and most involved writing course, the Legacy version of How To Think Sideways: Career Survival School for Writers. Took a picture of my board with its new X… Using my iPhone… Continue reading Two down

Discussing “I’ve quit Big Publishing” to publish myself

Below is the start of an article that’s been a long time coming. After years of publishing my fiction through big commercial publishers, with thirty-two novels sold to the big New York houses as well as to international publishers around the planet, and more than a million books in print, I have decided to move… Continue reading Discussing “I’ve quit Big Publishing” to publish myself