Holly Lisle: Writing, Fiction, & Discovery

  • The Mac Died This Morning

    Died dead. I don’t get a blue screen, I don’t get a gray screen. All I get is a single low-toned beep, a black screen, and it sits there. I’ll trot it over to the Mac store today to see about repairs. I’m not enthused, but neither am I devastated. If I lose the hard…

  • Good, Good Writing Day

    I did 3020 words before 8 AM today. Had to get up at 3:30 AM to do it, but it’s done, my day is mine, and I had the time to do a workshop on coming up with story ideas for the site later this same morning. With illustrations. While the kiddo was doing some…

  • Missing the Point

    So SFWA (the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, putative professional organization for those named genres) has raised the rate for what it accepts as pro short fiction markets from .03 to .05 cents per word. I can understand, sort of. Looked at from a simply economic standpoint, it isn’t unreasonable. After all, I…

  • To the Concerned Folks at FM

    Hi, guys. Don’t panic and don’t fret. I haven’t left the community, nor have I been scared off. At the moment, I simply don’t have the time or the interest to deal with a handful of petty twits who want to use the community I created to drum up traffic for their site and have…

  • Blasts from the Past

    I uncovered the disk that has the archives from the old FM Community (on Network 54) on it. I rolled through some of the old posts I had there, and found that I’d written some neat things between June 2000 and June 2002 when we moved over to the DCForums community on our own site.…

  • CC2 Pro and the Workaround

    CC2 Pro — Campaign Cartographer 2 Pro, the program I have been trying without success to run on my WinCrap XP setup, is finally up and running correctly. But not on WinCrap XP. I have it going on my Mac, using Virtual PC and Windows 98 SE. It works perfectly, now I’ll be able to…

  • Before We Have Names

    Food for thought And one of many reasons I think abortion is ethically wrong even in the first trimester. Download as PDFPrint Page

  • “I’m getting history on the carpet”

    The kidlet and I discovered something wonderful today (and I owe Sheila Kelly a huge thanks for this, since she gave a link for a paleontology kit in her weblog). We picked up an archeology kit from Scholastic the last time we were at Toys ‘R Us — it’s called “Mysteries of Egypt” and it…

  • Remembering September 11th

    Last year, the Forward Motion Writers’ Community put together the free e-book United We Stand: Community About Community Through the Lens of September 11th. You can download that e-book either in PDF Format — 223 kb, or as a zip file — 188 kb. Hold in your thoughts today our men and women overseas and…

  • I’m In Love

    Since I left DOS behind in 1993 (I was a holdout) and lost my beloved Spinnaker outliner, I’ve been looking for a program that would let me brainstorm novels the way I actually think. This is not a neat process — I come up with story ideas the way Jackson Pollock paints. I throw stuff…

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