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Career Survival School: Curriculum

Each week you'll receive:

  • The lesson
  • One Think Sideways demo showing you how to solve the lesson's problem
  • A course assignment for your project
ADDITIONALLY, you'll receive:
  • An introduction to the month's theme at the beginning of the month
  • A monthly checklist and a special "Answers To Your Questions" PDF at the end of the month.
  • At unspecified intervals, you'll receive bonuses related to some of the bigger lessons.

FINALLY, you'll have access to (though you will not be required to use) a small private workgroup for brainstorming with fellow students, and to an open board for general project discussion.

  Holly Lisle's How To Think SidewaysTM Course

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 Thinking "Ideas"
Week 1 How To Break The Four THINKING Barriers to Success
Week 2 How To Discover Your Writing "Sweet Spot"
Week 3 How To Generate Ideas On A Deadline
Week 4 How To Recognize and Build On Good Ideas

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 Thinking "Project Planning"
Week 5 How To Define Your Project's Needs
Week 6 How To Discover (or Create) Your Project's Market
Week 7 How To Develop Your Personal Project "System"
Week 8 How To Plan Your Project While NOT Killing Your Story

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 Thinking "First Chapters"
Week 9 How To Write From Inside Your Story
Week 10 How To "Plan" Surprises That Surprise Even You

Week 11

 How To Design Compelling Queries, Proposals, and Sample Chapters
Week 12 How To Create, Complicate, and Solve Problems

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 Thinking "Middles"
Week 13 "Can't I Just Kill Them All?"
How To Fall In Love With Your Story A Second Time
Week 14 How To Find and Use Your "Planned" Surprises
Week 15 How To "Hire" Spies, And Why Your Story Needs Them
Week 16 How To Assess Your Progress And Make Mid-Course Corrections

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 Thinking "Endings"
Week 17 How To Work With Editors, Agents, Marketing Departments, and Artists and NOT Wreck Your Book
Week 18 How To Find the RIGHT Ending
Week 19 How To Bend Your Plan Without Breaking It
Week 20 How To Write the Ending That Sells The Next Book

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 Thinking "Wrap Up/Start Again"
Week 21 How To Plan The Revision
Week 22 How To NOT Fix What Ain't Broken (While Still Fixing What Is)
Week 23 How To Deliver What You Promised And What They Want On Deadline
Week 24 How To NOT Be A One-Book Wonder--Learn To Produce Repeatable Results

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