Tag Archives: HTTS

Learn How to Promote Your Writing BEFORE You Publish
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The long-awaited Self-Publishing Expansion Lesson 13: How To Promote Your Writing BEFORE You Publish, is now complete and available in your classroom.

This lesson shows you how to promote your work ethically, which benefits both you and your readers, (and will help you get consistently higher reviews) and teaches you how to create quality content related to your writing that will bring you the targeted traffic of readers who will actually like your work.

The lesson also teaches you how to set up your:

  • weblog/website,
  • mailing list,
  • Twitter account,
  • and integrity-based blog network,

and finally how to do acceptable cover art for your self-published work until you can afford to hire a pro.

Login to your student page, and download Lesson 13A from the lesson links at the top.

What our writing says about us
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The best writing can say more about the author than they ever intend, because the best writers put so much of themselves into their stories. Most often it’s intentional, with the author’s interests, passions, hopes and fears reflected in their plots, settings and characters. Sometimes, however, a writer only discovers common themes and ideas in their stories after the fact.

All members can log in and join this conversation about hidden themes and recurring plot devices that you’ve discovered in your writing.

The nuts and bolts of magic
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A Sideways student ponders how other writers develop, build, and implement unique systems of magic for their books.

What fictional magic systems make sense to you and which ones seem contrived? How much do you pull from real world myths, religions and philosophies? How do you balance different magical elements in your own writing?

Log in to share your thoughts and  experience here.

Extra Mojo on the Top Line
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Holly’s walkthrough of the How to Think Sideways course has come to the lesson for Week 8, Plan Your Project Without Killing Your Story.

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Now we’re getting down to story time!  Break out the index cards and let your Muse and your You sing Kumbayah.  Want extra mojo?  Then don’t let the top line of the index card go to waste.

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How do you invoke and use the magic of scene titles?  Go here to share your ideas and get a kick from others’ title work.

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HTRYN versus HTTS: keep revising a wrecked novel, or start writing it all over again?
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This HTRYN student finds his novel to be so broken that he wonders if he should not just start all over again with the HTTS process.

Excellent question, with lots of details and nuances.  What do you think?

Go here, read the ongoing discussion, then offer your best understanding of the Lisle methods of writing and revision and how they work together.