How To Think Sideways: Career Survival School For Writers

Grad Novel Closes–HTTS Expands

by Texanne on September 2, 2010

Hey, HTTS Grads–

It’s time to transfer your account from Grad Novel, which is closing soon, into the extended Think Sideways so you can continue to get updates and upgrades and use the community.

To do this, log into your account.  Once you’re on your student page, go to UPGRADES.

Don’t miss both the upcoming HTTS walkthrough and having your account transfer to the new site.  This is going to be so great!

Check the e-mail account you use for messages from the Writers’ Boot Camps for full details.  (We’re also discussing it in the HTTS forum.)

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It’s not too early to start planning for NaNo.

by Texanne on August 31, 2010

For all those who get a kick in the pants out of screaming through the first draft of a novel in one month, it’s time to begin thinking NaNoWriMo.  The writers of Holly Lisle’s Writers’ Bootcamps participate in NaNo, each in his own way.  Pssst!  There’s no reason to go into it without a plan.

Stop in, find out what everybody’s planning for NaNo 2010, and add your own ideas on the November Nuttiness.

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Write, Revise, Submit–Novel Aweigh!

August 27, 2010

What a ride! Yesterday I finally completed the one-pass revision of my ms! It’s done, complete. I sent out my first submissions this morning. Now I’m going to take a few days break and spend time with my husband and daughter  . . . Whew! I really enjoyed this course, even though it was a [...]

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Fun with Promises

August 24, 2010

As more writers work through the revision process with HTRYN, more facets of the method appear. Check out the latest enjoyable take on the Week 2 lesson, Promises, Promises, chillingly subtitled Finding Your Biggest, Worst First-Draft Wrecks.

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Some assets never lose their value.

August 20, 2010

Sideways writers look forward to earning money from their writing, and yes, even to having fans.  Fans must be earned, too.  How is it done? First, take a long, cool look inward and discover your best asset. Read what others have written and add your own assessment.  Today is a good day.

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Sideways novel finals for Colorado Gold

August 17, 2010

A Sideways writer reports: Guess what, my story Thicker Than Water (written with HTTS and the first novel I wrote in English without writing a German first draft) is a finalist in the Colorado Gold Writing Contest 2010 in Speculative Fiction from the Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers. . . .   the comments I received [...]

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The Frog Prince wins again!

August 14, 2010

A Sideways writer has announced: My story, “The Frog Prince” (5k words), has been accepted for an anthology of gay romantic erotica called The Handsome Prince edited by author Neil Plakcy. Her work is a more quirky, humorous interpretation of the brief rather than simply rewriting a fairy tale. She reports that she used techniques [...]

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The Ten-Minute Refresher

August 11, 2010

Almost nobody can write a novel.  Correction:  Almost nobody can write a novel in one big whoosh.  Most writers need to stop, breathe, raise their eyes to some other landscape once in a while.  Timed writing can be a small holiday for the Muse, allowing her to take off in any direction she likes.  It’s [...]

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Pick a card, any card.

August 8, 2010

One of the grads of HTTS presented the forum with a neat idea: using the Sweet Spot Map as writing prompts.  She detailed her method, which was taken up by others with glee and enthusiasm.  A couple of members declared their own intentions to tweak. Look at that:  the birth of  a cool new game [...]

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What’s Your Writing Process?

August 5, 2010

How to Think Sideways offers a process that is detailed and structured but not constricting–a detailed map for the mind,  a theme park for the muse, and a secure haven for a long-term writing career. Through the course each student is able to master new pieces of process–but is free to adapt the process to [...]

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