Month: January 2016

  • UPCOMING deletion of 16,000+ writers accounts from my new site

    Read instructions below, then begin rescuing your account HERE  DEADLINE March 1, 2016, 11:59 PM ET   This is a long post. I apologize. But I’m looking at the reality of having to delete more than 16,000 writers’ accounts containing more than 100,000 individual writing courses—and I want to give the folks who bought these…

  • I’ve put the HollysWritingClasses.com T-Shirts back on sale

    I’m doing my best to stay calm, and I’m putting together a workshop on developing your writing voice that I hope to be able to offer before I have surgery. Because we’re still doing major site development integrating the forums, classrooms, and account, though, there’s no guarantee that this workshop will be available by then.…

  • MEDICAL: Worse than I’d hoped, not as bad as it could be

    I went from clear margins to dysplasia coming back in four months. The doc also found a white spot under my tongue that he says usually turns into an invasive form of cancer. I was expecting the first news—I can feel this stuff on the inside, which most people can’t. Pain in this instance was…

  • I’m fundraising with writer T-shirts

    People have been asking me for T-shirts for ages. I kept trying to over-complicate the process, (trying to get names for the entire first HTTS graduating class to put on the shirt, for example). The shirts just never got done. Break to today. There are T-shirts. Limited-time only (there’s a reason, and I’ll get to…

  • Welcome to 2016. Do something small right now

    New Year resolutions tend to be enormous. Lose 100 lbs. Become a professional novelist. Make a million dollars. By making resolutions this way, we make them impossible. The ONLY New Year resolution I completed successfully was this one. “Finish a novel before I turn 25.” And I finished that one because I sat down and…