Category: Newsletters

  • 6:47 AM – Finishing Ohio 4, starting Ohio 5, while building the new HollysWritingClasses.com site

    6:47 AM – Finishing Ohio 4, starting Ohio 5, while building the new HollysWritingClasses.com site

    SO… My website over on HollysWritingClasses.com is undergoing a massive overhaul (complete site rebuild). And I anticipated the process taking FOUR months. Turns out… it’s probably not anything like that. My amazing community moderators over there have already finished building all the classrooms in the new software, and getting all the class materials into them…

  • The Ohio Series: Novel 1 – Define “crazy”… And a note about my email list revamp

    The Ohio Series: Novel 1 – Define “crazy”… And a note about my email list revamp

    My main character is finding herself in a situation where reality is meshing badly with her previous understanding of reality. She’s doing the best she can with it, but she’s kind of missing the days when the worst thing that happened to her was that she got shot at. Thinking maybe going back to THAT…

  • Removed almost 10,000 folks from my Writing Tips newsletter

    It was not the easiest thing I’ve ever done. There’s something comforting about thinking you’re talking to 21,000+ people at a time. But at the point where folks haven’t opened a single email you’ve sent in six months, you’re NOT talking to them. So if you look at the green Writing Tips sign-up form in…

  • Results of the “Help I’m Looking For” Writers’ Survey

    I did a survey of folks on my Writing Tips newsletter, many of whom have dropped out of regular readership. Many of whom have a good reason for doing so. The migraines don’t prevent me from working (most of the time) because I am tenacious and I’ll put up with a lot of pain before…

  • Another Newsletter Question

    When people drop out of the Writing Updates newsletter, (and take the time to tell me why), it’s almost always because I’m sending more newsletters than they can read. As you can see from my 400+ emails post the other day, I DO understand the problem, and I don’t want to contribute to someone else…