Holly Lisle: Writer

Month: August 2009

  • Friday W.A.B.W.M.

    Yes, the Official Friday “Write A Book With Me” thread is here. (The unofficial one is hanging out at Starbucks eyeing the muffins.) How’s it going? Download as PDFPrint Page

  • New Technique for Shooting the Videos

    So after yesterdays debacle with post-production on THE WRITING CRAFT: How To Motivate Yourself, I had two choices. I could either go back in and do exactly the same work I did yesterday today. Or I could figure out a different way of producing the work in the first place that wouldn’t require three hours…

  • DTD — 499 Words, and the man with the dull job

    Michael Bennetan steps up to carry the first part of the first scene of the archeological subplot of the story. He’s doing a dull dig of a minor pre-Columbian hunting camp in Ohio, and only finding evidence that it was used seasonally and lightly—it offers nothing unique, nothing cool, nothing that will give the historical…

  • I HATE computers

    I just lost three hours of editing on Section 1 of THE WRITING CRAFT: How To Motivate Yourself. Application crashed. All gone. I still have the original recording. Now I get to do all the video cutting and resizing and retaping of stuff that I messed up the first time AGAIN. Argh. (NOTE: This is…

  • DTD — 462, and enter the archeologist

    Finished the detective scene, moved on to the scene where my archeologist gets a call from a colleague asking her to check out his find. I know what I want to write tomorrow, but I’m way too tired to go any further with it. I’m happy with what I got. I’ve done two nice cliffhangers…

  • DTD: 799 words and Ring Around The Rosie

    I got carried away. Hell, I was so sleepy I didn’t even want to write tonight, but then I got into the story, and my detective was standing there looking at the crime scene. I like this bit. The smell was nagging him—not the death, not the perfume, but the herbal note. It reminded him…

  • DTD — 498 words, and the cop’s view of the Dead Seven

    Switched to the next scene to intro my hero in his new amalgamated form. He found something on the victims that makes him certain what looks like a weird cultish group suicide is in fact a murder, and tips him off to who the murderers may be. I’m off my game tonight, though. The Air…

  • DTD — 391, and Seven Bodies

    Had a massive revelation this morning; my male protagonist and one of my secondary characters have to be compressed into one character. This was huge. It was the other answer to an ongoing pacing problem I’ve been sensing as I wrote. And the difference it made when I worked on the outline again tonight was…

  • DTD — Crisis of Confidence/ Restructure

    Thursday I left the story happy with my words, but not happy with the overall direction of the story. Friday night, watching a DVD with Matt, I suddenly realized what the story was missing… but didn’t know how to fix it. I woke up this morning with a pretty good idea of how to fix…