Month: April 2009

  • Review of “Light Through Fog”

    I wrote the short story “Light Through Fog” for the collection The Mammoth Book of Paranormal Romance because I needed a live project to demonstrate my techniques in the How To Think Sideways course, and I had to have the pressure of writing something that was commissioned, had a hard (and very close) deadline, and…

  • WriterCrashTest.com presents: Holly Lisle and the Case of the Exploding Cat

    My first writing crit video. Download as PDFPrint Page

  • 100 Scenes

    So. I broke out my themes into elements, and when I started looking at the elements, I realized if I started playing them off against each other, I had this amazing list of conflicts. AMAZING. If you list all the good points about something like immortality, and then you list all the bad points, and…

  • Breaking out my themes

    Breaking out themes for dreaming the dead (figuring out what the critical elements of every theme are, and then breaking those down further into individual problems and issues), is going much much much faster than I’d anticipated. Yay Scrivener, and cheers for having a plan, and a good, solid workable Sentence. Thought you might like…

  • The Book Math for DREAMING THE DEAD

    Big book. 300,000 words to do it right. Figure a good, rich scene runs 2500-3500 words on average. Say 3000 words for convenience’s sake. That’s 100 full scenes. So: First, I need to finish breaking out the issues and interactions and conflicts for each of my themes. Give myself a full 5-day week to work…

  • I Got My SENTENCE!

    Bouncing around like a lunatic. I’m so happy. I FINALLY got the Sentence for Dreaming The Dead! An archeologist stumbles over a man who cannot exist and his key to immortality, and in doing so makes herself a target of the immortals bent on hiding the secret. The Sentence, incidentally, is the key to writing…

  • E-Mail is eating my life

    I have a novel I want to write. I have this really cool new course I want to create. I have these awesome videos I want to do for http://writercrashtests.com I want to get Rebel Tales up and running. And I have a notebook full to overflowing with other ideas—more novels, more courses, more freebies.…

  • Updated Writers’ Guidelines for Rebel Tales

    Due to a number of questions via various channels, I’ve updated the Rebel Tales Writers’ Guidelines. I’ve done a lot of clarification on payment, and other smaller clarifications, added some new definitions, restructured the page so that writing guidelines are first, publishing information is second, and submission guidelines are third, and corrected errors pointed out.…