With the success story question below, I was also doing a free test of Survey Gizmo before paying to use it–so that we wouldn’t have the problem we had with vote cheating the next time I needed to ask your input on an upcoming course. (It also does polls, but surveys are a better indicator of how well something works.) … Continue reading →
Have you had success with one of my courses? If you have, I really want to hear about it. Please tell me below. … Continue reading →
I got these e-mails today, and received permission to post both of them. This one from Liz B. Hi Holly! I have to tell you straight away. I’m so excited! I’ve bought the Feb Package yesterday, not for the Writers Block course specifically, it was the Hawkspar draft and revision stuff that sold me. I’m sure that “looking over your … Continue reading →
You have to be kidding me. We’re under a tornado watch and a thunderstorm watch, we have thunder AND lightning, and the power around here goes out if the gerbil on his treadmill at the power company farts. If you suddenly don’t hear from me, I’m sitting here in the dark saying every bad word I know, waiting for the … Continue reading →
If you’re on the Writers’ Updates newsletter and you have questions about or need help with the February Sucks sale, you can ask or post here. I’ll be checking the blog all day. And all day tomorrow. And by putting everything here, some questions might be answered that folks participating while I’m asleep might need. If you’re not getting the … Continue reading →
I’ve asked for an received another two weeks to do the revisions. While I could have had the book at its existing length in on time (March 1st), I’ve discovered that there are two areas where I want to be able to add significant length–my best guess is about 20,000 additional words. Those two areas are The Cryptic Monster, and … Continue reading →
Theme. Theme. Structure. Pacing. Plot. Theme. More theme. Insert, delete, cross out, add. Lot’s and lots of adding. Conflict, conflict, conflict, conflict, and oh, GOD, less of the whole languages business, please. Still revising. LONG way yet to go. … Continue reading →
A friend of mine from way back, Robbie Jordan (a.k.a. The Dread Pirate Robbie, when we were role-playing) is starting up a brick-and-mortar indie bookstore in Eden, North Carolina, and because he’s a pretty savvy fellow, as well as a damn fine DM, and one of the first members of our writers’ group, which eventually became Schrodinger’s Petshop, he’s taken … Continue reading →
Someone discovered that the IP logging that was supposed to work on the poll I set up wasn’t working any better than the vote tallies at the bottom, and sat running up the numbers on the courses he or she wanted. I was watching the tallies pretty carefully, and while the numbers changed, the percentages didn’t. And then all of … Continue reading →