Holly Lisle's Novel Writing Course: The Blog » Course Features http://howtothinksideways.com Words matter. Learn to write like you mean it. Thu, 29 Jul 2010 03:20:43 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Motivation Revision http://howtothinksideways.com/2009/08/motivation-revision/ http://howtothinksideways.com/2009/08/motivation-revision/#comments Mon, 17 Aug 2009 15:41:46 +0000 Holly http://howtothinksideways.com/?p=87 Some students had problems watching the third section of the Motivation course because it was embedded as a .mov file.

I’ve now changed it to match the embedding of the other files—you should have no difficulty watching now.

Login here to watch…if you’re a course grad, or on week five as a current student, you’ll find the link as TWC #2-Motivation at the top of your student page with the rest of your lessons.

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The intro discussion to the board says:

Talk through what happened to you, find out what happened to others, offer support, tips, and encouragement.


Students and grads can read about everything from NaNo burn-out to new babies crashing into writing schedules and enthusiasm. Join in here.

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These boards take a bit of time for me to set up, so will be created on a first-requested, first served basis on my schedule.

Here are the Private Board rules:

Please note that these boards will ONLY work for enrolled students or graduates of the Think Sideways course. Your course membership is what gives you access to them—your password restricts access to those students you’ve invited to join you, but will not allow non-students to use your board.

Boards are provided for course-related and writing-related work, and the normal discussions that arise from such work. Boards used for purposes other than working on writing will be deleted. (Examples: Turning your board into an online dating service or virtual frat party.)

Boards that go without posts for more than three months will be considered abandoned. Participants will be given notice, but if none respond, board and contents will be deleted without further notice.

If you would like a private board, send me a private message (Log In: You can then use the PM link from this linked post) and include your Student ID and the Student IDs of your crit partners.

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