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I’m giving away a bunch of my WRITING courses. #free #writing #courses 27 Jul 2013 | 08:00 pm

I’m doing a WRITING-COURSE GIVEAWAY PRIZE DRAWING as part of my release of How To Revise Your Novel on the new classroom. This includes the GRAND PRIZE: Full free membership in all three of my BIG co...

The Adventure Of Creation: Think Sideways Writers Anthology, Is Live #readers 27 Jul 2013 | 01:24 am

I am delighted to announce that The Adventure of Creation: Think Sideways Writers Anthology is live on Amazon. I was delighted by the quality of the stories: by their breadth, variety, voices, and sk...

Winners of the First How To Think Sideways Anthology Contest #fiction #writing 16 Jul 2013 | 03:00 pm

My fabulous How To Think Sideways Boot Camp moderators came up with the following wonderful idea, here quoted from Katharina Gerlach’s post on the forum: I have been thinking about an anthology with ...

Flash Fiction Anthology Update: Three Windows 15 Jul 2013 | 04:27 pm

So, anyway, got into the office at 6 this morning, knowing I had a long day and a ton of work ahead of me. And I sat down with another of my flash fiction stubs: This one was Three Windows: A woman tr...

The Monster Trial 12 Jul 2013 | 06:25 pm

Okay. This sounds completely insane, considering everything else I have going on right now, but while I was showering this morning, I worked out a song, starting with the line, “Don’t ever look at me ...

Atheism and Freedom of Religion: Thoughts On Independence Day 7 Jul 2013 | 08:28 pm

John Carlton, whose work has done me immeasurable good, and whose blog—The Rant—I read with considerable enthusiasm, has a post up on “Why We Blow Stuff Up On The Fourth Of July.” Which is, actually....

The First Ever How To Think Sideways Anthology #writers #readers 3 Jul 2013 | 01:13 am

I’m passing this very cool piece of news from my community moderators over at HowToThinkSideways.com In May, the moderators of Holly’s Forum (that’s us), approached her with the idea of an anthology....

The Oddest Great Review I’ve Ever Received: Free Flash Fiction Course #writers 25 Jun 2013 | 11:28 pm

You’ve heard of damning with faint praise. It’s common. But have you ever heard of praising with loud damns? I hadn’t. But I read this through three or four times, and was laughing out loud by the fi...

Upcoming Stories and Classes #writer #reader 21 Jun 2013 | 06:48 pm

I’ve been nearly invisible here for ages because migraines left me with barely enough energy to keep courses running and get some writing done. But a low-sodium diet is proving to have a 1:1 correlati...

Learn to fix the biggest mistake writers make in 3 minutes #writers 15 Jun 2013 | 12:37 am

I put together a fun, but also useful, three-minute writing lesson for you. I’ve thrown in a free printable PDF lesson with built-in worksheets about how to escape the single worst problem ALL writers...

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