Holly Lisle: Writing, Fiction, & Discovery
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About Holly
There is no way to soften the blow of this and Mom never liked euphemisms, so I’m just going to speak plainly. Mom died due to complications from cancer on the 27th of August. Yes, this was the cancer that she’d originally had that had gone into remission. She had been dealing with this for…
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On Ohio, and the novels, and the new class
Just small news here. The new class is finished in first draft, and I’m now (and for the first time ever) doing the complete course bug-hunt and clean-up BEFORE I put the course on sale. Yes, it will take longer. But it will also guarantee that the class will be less first-time-through splintery. I’m still…
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Finished through Lesson 20 on the new Secret Writing Class today
Lesson AND worksheet — took a couple of days on this one, but this was one of those strange sideways-thinking lessons that lets you get at parts of your story that are going to be unexpected and exciting for readers, and that will give you fresh perspectives soon your characters and world. Like what I…
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The Money-Grubbing Asshat from Berkeley
I do email first thing, and then last thing. And this morning, my first goddamn email was a notice from the Berkeley Humane Society telling me that August is National Make-A-Will Month, and offering me their Personal Estate Planning Kit so I could leave them all my money when I die. Shitbags. This is pure…
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And LESSON 14 is finished!
This one was tough, requiring a lot of thought on my part… but it should be a pretty simple lesson for writers to get the hang of. So tomorrow I’ll start on Lesson 15, which from the subject matter I’m betting is going to be a whole lotta fun, not just to write, but to…
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