Holly Lisle: Writer

Month: April 2007

  • Today I’ve been working on affiliate stuff

    Here’s an example of what I came up with: Affiliates can find the new banners for the Holly Lisle’s Writing Clinics under N-L Clinic Series and N-L Plot Clinic. Tomorrow I’m working on banners for Zette’s 2YN Series and Bettye Baldwin’s Writing the Horse Series. I’m trying to make the advertising spiffier and more professional.…

  • Holly Lisle’s Create A Plot Clinic is now on sale!

    Those who bought the beta version can log into the store and download their copy now. It’s now on sale, too. And official beta testers will get their copies via e-mail in a few minutes. If you find mistakes in this version (there are new parts the beta testers didn’t get), please let me know…

  • Plot Clinic Revision is close to finished

    I’ve written about four thousand words today of all-new material–the ONLY thing I still have to add is detail on Line-for-Scene, Take Two. And I have a few more typos to hunt down and kill. Thought you might like to see the table of contents. Line-For-Scene, Take Two, all the way at the bottom, will…

  • A thought I had while writing

    This occurred to me as I was editing, and I went ahead and put it into the Plot Clinic. Anyone can write one book, and perhaps even sell it, and in the rarest of circumstances, become famous from it—because lightning does strike. To make a career of writing, though, you must take up the burden…

  • Plot Clinic: Things I’ll be adding

    I’m making pretty good progress this morning on the revision of Plot Clinic, and between beta readers and official beta testers, I’ve got a lot of work ahead of me. But it will be good, useful work.   I’ll be adding the Timeline Structure, which I inadvertently forgot in the first draft. I’ll be doing…

  • News on HAWKSPAR

    I can barely believe this, and I keep waiting for the other shoe to drop. But… Tor is printing out galleys now for HAWKSPAR, and will be sending a few to me. Without cutting the book in half and printing it as two books. Without me cutting 60,000 words from the text. According to Robin,…

  • Still too sick to work

    Thanks to those of you who have posted comments on the Plot Clinic. I’ve figured out from what you’ve said that I have to add an additional section to While You’re Writing that includes editing pre-existing manuscripts, that I need to discuss dream journaling in a bit more depth, that Structures has to go in…

  • Unofficial Weekend Beta User Comments

    If you were an unofficial user of the beta of Plot Clinic over the weekend, please let me know how it worked for you. Did you get a plot? What worked best? Do you have any questions that weren’t answered? Download as PDFPrint Page

  • Sick day

    The weekend didn’t turn out the way I’d hoped. Oh, I got plenty of sleep, but I did it with a fever, headache, coughing, sneezing, runny eyes and nose, muscle aches… you name it. Still sick today. The kidlet had it last week, I ran down my resistance by working too hard. Anyway, I’m taking…

  • My plans for the weekend

    I’m worn out. In the last couple of weeks I’ve written Plot Clinic, had a new grandbaby, watched the NY Rangers climb out of mediocrity to clinch a spot in the playoffs and then sweep Atlanta in the first round, and dealt with some less-happy stresses. So this weekend I’m going to sleep. I haven’t…