Month: October 2006

  • Snippet: Intro to Holly Lisle’s Create A Culture Clinic

    This is first draft. It was drop back and punt time for me, as I got my head around what, exactly, I’m trying to give you in this book. This is the introduction to the book, where I think I got it. Why Create Cultures? Every novel ever written is, was, or eventually will be…

  • ZONK! Task Massiveness Slams Into Author!

    Follow that by a rueful wince and the fierce rubbing of the head. See, I only do bits and pieces of any culture that I do. I work on my culture as I write, too, so the task never becomes overwhelming, and I add things in a mostly-organized method, so I never think about how…

  • The goal of fatness

    Every word on Culture Clinic yesterday was a new one. They are, however, much better words than before. Today, I’m also chasing all new words. I need to change the order of the Problems With Created Cultures, because the first one I have to address is 5) Your culture contains only paladins, clerics, bards, rogues…

  • Sproing! Another week begins.

    The print version of Language Clinic landed on my front step late last Friday, and it turned out beautifully. I’m going through and copyediting, will do final revisions, and have the thing available for sale in the next couple of days. Other than copyediting most of that, I did nothing writing-related over the weekend except…