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How to Think Sideways

During the last six months I participated in Holly Lisle's course "How to Think Sideways" and I would like to recommend it to anyone who dreams of a career in writing.

Read this comprehensive preview for the course. Just for reading you get a 3 Dollar reduction on the price of my e-book "The 33 worst mistakes writers make about Mother Nature"!

Also, have a look at the Eureka-board of the Forum, where other participants posted some of their success.

Costs

The course costs 48 Dollar per month for the six month course and 25 Dollar if you take a whole year. The curriculum is the same for both timeframes, and after finishing, the lessons (and the Forum) will be available forever without additional costs. Updates are free of charge, too. You can’t get a better bargain!

Review

Soon, I will post my personal review. It has been published in January 2009 in a newsletter for writers in Germany (The Tempest) but I haven't gotten round to translate it.

Curriculum

Month/Section 1: "Ideas"
Week 1How To Break The Four THINKING Barriers to Success
Week 2How To Discover Your Writing "Sweet Spot"
Week 3How To Generate Ideas On A Deadline
Week 4How To Recognize and Build On Good Ideas
Month/Section 2: "Project Planning"
Week 1How To Define Your Project's Needs
Week 2How To Discover (or Create) Your Project's Market
Week 3How To Develop Your Personal Project "System"
Week 4How To Plan Your Project While NOT Killing Your Story
Month/Section 3: "First Chapters"
Week 1How To Write From Inside Your Story
Week 2How To "Plan" Surprises That Surprise Even You
Week 3How To Design Compelling Queries, Proposals, and Sample Chapters
Week 4How To Create, Complicate, and Solve Problems
Month/Section 4: "Middles"
Week 1How To Fall In Love With Your Story A Second Time
Week 2How To Find and Use Your "Planned" Surprises
Week 3How To "Hire" Spies, And Why Your Story Needs Them
Week 4How To Assess Your Progress And Make Mid-Course Corrections
Month/Section 5: "Endings"
Week 1How To Use Story Gravity to Find Your Ending
Week 2How to Find the Right Ending
Week 3What If The Book Is Wrecked?
Week 4How to Write the Ending that Sells the Next Book
Month/Section 6: "Wrap Up/Start Again"
Week 1How to Work with Editors, Agents, Marketing Departments and Artists and NOT Wreck Your Book
Week 2How Plan the Revision
Week 3How to NOT Fix What Ain't Broken (While Still Fixing What Is)
Week 4How to Deliver What You Promised and What They Want On Deadline
Month/Section 7: "Bonus"
Week 1How to NOT Be a One-Book Wonder - Produce Repeatable Results
Week 2A Bonus Lesson
Week 3And possibly a second Bonus Lesson