As this is my writing blog and I’m working on the writing course How To Think Sideways, it’s fair to assume that there will be a lot of entries on how that progresses. Like, for example, this one.
Lesson Two involved determining, via the ‘sweet-spot map’, what I personally love, hate, need, fear, am drawn to and get shivers from. These things reveal the essential nature of the writer, and, according to the lesson, can move with a writer from genre to genre as needed so that you can always write what you love and be true to yourself, even if you’re writing to fit a market or meet a publisher’s need. Handy stuff!
The next lesson is in training your Muse to provide you with complete story ideas, drawing on this map for inspiration. I’m looking calm on the outside, but I’m wildly excited that something as cool as that is lesson 3, and there are 23 more lessons to come!
So I’m totally enjoying this course for it’s fantastic content, and as a bonus, it’s a relief from contemplating all the things that are going wrong with my house. It’s just so handy when my escapism has a level of productivity!
Wish I could think STRAIGHT—never mind sideways!