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Simple Question: How do you figure out what to write ABOUT?

LESSON DESCRIPTION: Discover what your Muse is passionate as opposed to what you think you should write, so you can build your career only writing books you love.

In LESSON 2: How To Discover Your Writing "Sweet Spot", you'll:

• Discover what you really want to write (it might not be what you think).
• Create a career map that will show you how to write stories you love and are passionate about every time--because your career cannot be a cheap imitation of anyone else's career...it is what makes you unique that will make your work sell.
• Learn how to train your subconscious mind work with your conscious mind in uncovering your passions and interests, to determine the content of your writing--because the sad truth about why so many writers who do succeed are miserable in their success is that they have NEVER learned to do this.

The public version of the course consists of these 29 individual lessons, and downloadable, printable worksheets included in the purchase price, and available from simple-to-type links at the back of each lesson.

Each lesson is taught in sequence, and builds on techniques taught in previous lessons.

TO AVOID CONFUSION AND FRUSTRATION, DO THE LESSONS IN ORDER.

STUDENTS SAY:

"Fantasy writer and teacher extraordinaire Holly Lisle (no relation!) earns my undying thanks for her online courses on writing and editing, without which this book might still be languishing in revision Hell."

--From the Acknowledgements in THE ALCHEMIST OF SOULS, by Anne Lyle

"My newest novel (revised with some of the methods I learned in this course) got contracted by the very best Fantasy-agent in Germany."

-- Katharina Gerlach, Germany

"I've been a professional journalist for 20 years... I was hoping to silence the editor. (And) I realized I'd written 5,000 words without going back to check spelling, etc."

-- Max Howard

"I've been a journalist for 25 years, and I've written fiction (short stories) off and on since childhood. Some even have been published! ;-) Taking the course, ...I learned to let a story take on its own life and stop trying to force it to become what I originally imagined it might be. That's incredibly liberating."

-- Kathleen Rice Adams

"It is by far more detailed than I could have ever hoped. It's not just a collection of tips and tricks; it's a complex, complete system for getting that damn book done and done right. It's changed my whole approach to writing but in a way that feels natural, like, 'why didn't I think of doing it this way before?'"

-- K.T. Appleby

Each of the 29 lessons teaches one or more essential sideways-thinking skills that will allow you to write better fiction, find markets for your work, revise intelligently (and just once per book), sell what you write, and make every book you write better than the last. It includes both commercial publishing and self-publishing tracks: I have many years of experience in both.

HOW TO THINK SIDEWAYS: Career Survival School for Writers is not "how to write a book." It is "How to write books you love for the rest of your life in ANY genres you wish to pursue, get paid for doing it, hit deadlines, crush writer's block, NEVER run out of ideas, and build a career telling stories you're proud of to people who love what you do."

The course is written exclusively for people who want to learn how to make a living from their writing, and my system is built around learning how to THINK sideways, and how to apply sideways-thinking skills to your writing---and while you will write, revise, and submit (or publish) a novel or novella as your course project, if you are unwilling to learn new ways of thinking, you will not benefit from the course.

---Holly Lisle