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. I’m in the post-book doldrums. … Continue reading →
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 what and where, and I’ll … Continue reading →
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 have more pages and headers … Continue reading →
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 of making lightning strike regularly, … Continue reading →
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 a complete section on using … Continue reading →
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, it’s to be printed in … Continue reading →
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 front of Tools even though … Continue reading →
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?
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 a sick day. My son … Continue reading →
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 done that with any regularity … Continue reading →