Eureka!

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 [...]

He wrote a big novel, but the overall message of the story came out all wrong.  HTRYN to the rescue! . . . after going through Holly’s process, I knew . . . I had too many characters and too many unrelated stories. I realized that when I split my original story into its two [...]

A student of How to Revise Your Novel has this to say about Week 12’s lesson “Commit to your Characters.” YES! I’ve finished it! Holly suggested taking all the time it needed to get the characters right. So I did – all 26 days of it. Consequently, I’ve got to know the characters much better. [...]

A Sideways Student writes: I wrote the novel THICKER THAN WATER through my first time doing Holly’s Think Sideways course. When Chuck Sambucchino from the “Guide to Literary Agents”-blog announced a “Lucky Agent Contest” with the prize of a 10 page critique from an agent, I jumped at the occasion. (By the way, he’s running [...]