Month: July 2018

  • Fung Fasting Report #5: The Breakthrough Month

    Fung Fasting Report #5: The Breakthrough Month

    This was the month in which I broke through my 3-days fasting block. Went four days easily and comfortably on just water, coffee, and a daily multivitamin, and I think I could have done five, but we had a roast that needed to be cooked and eaten before it went bad. I fasted yesterday just…

  • Alone in a Room with Invisible People: Our New Podcast

    Alone in a Room with Invisible People: Our New Podcast

    My daughter Rebecca and I get together every Sunday to talk. Knit. Show our goofy cats to each other. We do this online, because we currently live about 600 miles apart. But we also talk about writing. A lot. And at one point a couple months ago, we were having this really animated discussion and…

  • No Man’s Sky: They Nailed It!

    No Man’s Sky: They Nailed It!

    In spite of everything (and there’s a lot of “everything” going on right now), I took the entire day off yesterday to play a video game. Not just any video game, though. The one for which I went out and bought a Playstation several years ago, and the one for which I dug out my…

  • Vipers’ Nest is live

    Vipers’ Nest is live

    The book went live about a week, week and a half ago. Maybe longer? I’ve been buried in getting the HollysWritingClasses.com site done, getting the affiliate program live, and it has been wall-to-wall, morning to night work for the last couple weeks. So while I did remember to publish the story, I missed mentioning my…

  • Vipers’ Nest bug-hunts: DONE!

    Vipers’ Nest bug-hunts: DONE!

    What I thought would take one day has instead taken over two weeks and more than six butt-in-chair fully focused hours a day each day of those two weeks. And I know that I will have introduced some new bugs in fixing the old bugs. It happens. ALWAYS. But I have to quit now. HAVE…

  • Dreaming the Dead Chapters 1 — 7: July Patreon Bonus

    Dreaming the Dead Chapters 1 — 7: July Patreon Bonus

    Back in May I relocated my Dreaming the Dead manuscript. This morning, while putting together my July Patreon bonus for my patrons, I realized a lot of the folks who might be interested might still be reading here. So just a quick note. ALL my Patreon patrons this month get the first SEVEN chapters of…

  • Vipers’ Nest Homestretch — I hope…

    Vipers’ Nest Homestretch — I hope…

    So… here it is Friday morning, July 6, and I have been working steadily for six hours a day on the bug-hunts for Vipers’ Nest every day but Monday… Granted, as I’m getting into the bug hunts from my later folks, I’m getting a lot of repeat finds. But I have not had one bug…

  • God, I love my bug-hunters

    God, I love my bug-hunters

    Am in the middle of one of the LAST of the bug hunter sheets from one of the last of my bug hunters. And am still locating and fixing new bugs found by more careful readers and pointed out in a format that makes fixing simple — all of this done neatly, concisely, beautifully. It’s…

  • Experimenting with Mars Edit

    Experimenting with Mars Edit

    There was a point in my writing career where I was blogging as I wrote. I’d do a starting wordcount and the day’s objective, post little snippets of something I wrote while the letters were still glowing from the heat, build a new post as a digression from my worldbuilding or research (research was the…

  • The demons that drive writers

    The demons that drive writers

    There are folks who want to write books. Then there are those of us who write because drinking kills your liver (and killed most of our relatives) and therapy is too fucking expensive. You think I jest (and to a certain extent, I do). But there is something that drives people to turn themselves inside…