Novelist, writing teacher, on a mission to reprint my out-of-print books and self-publish my new ones.
I spent the morning writing fiction and putting together the rewards for my patrons. And I’ve done a post on the Patreon site for everyone. Today was my first day back to work after starting to prep for Hurricane Irma, and I came back to a lot of emails with questions about Patreon, and what I’m doing, so I’m going … Continue reading →
The pictures that follow were taking during calmer periods in the storm, through one of the tiny holes in the bathroom shutter. Smallest window, least danger from opening it. On some of the pictures I took, you can see the curve of the holes where I didn’t have the lens lined up quite right. We lost trees, lost power three … Continue reading →
Hurricane Irma, or what I’ve decided to think of as the Okefenokee Wildlife Relocation Plan, now looks like it will start raining poisonous snakes and prehistoric reptiles on the South Florida burbs around eightish tomorrow morning. A bit early for that sort of thing, and the better class of hurricane never calls on a Sunday. Irma is clearly no lady. … Continue reading →
At the request of a number of my fiction readers, I’ve put this together: https://www.patreon.com/hollylisle I’ve explained the whys and hows there. I’m hopeful about this being my path to getting back to full-time fiction writing (4 hours / day). If you take a look, thank you very much. If you let someone else know about this, double thanks. If … Continue reading →
SEPT. 8, 12:01 AM: Holly Lisle For readers of HollyLisle.com, writers at HollysWritingClasses.com (HWC Writers), and folks using the HELP DESK… While all writing classes will remain open, I will not be available to answer questions, reply to comments, or fix problems you may have on any of the sites. My family and I live in Broward County, South Florida. … Continue reading →
Ragged “what’s going on right now” update. Our place was repainted this year, and came with hurricane shutters, BUT… the people who lived here before us tiled the balcony, and either threw away the hurricane shutter hardware or took it with them when they left. We live on the second floor. These five facts are essential to everything that … Continue reading →
TUESDAY UPDATE: I’m not crazy about where this is going… So I spent a couple hours this morning letting folks who needed to know how to stay in touch. Holly’s Writing Classes members: LOG IN then go here, especially if you’re also in the path. I’m not going to be writing an HTWAS lesson this week. Not going to be … Continue reading →
No secret that I haven’t been getting a lot of fiction written lately. Between building and getting the HollysWritingClasses.com website ready to come out of beta, and editing a collection of short fiction by students, and writing a brand-new Version 2 of How to Write a Series, I’ve been working long hours and weekends and I didn’t see where I … Continue reading →
I was diagnosed some years ago with BPPV — Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo. With me, it generally starts with slight dizziness that gets worse over a day or two, becoming so bad that I have to have my husband hold me up to get from one end of the house to the other. There are a bunch of exercises you’re … Continue reading →
THE DREAM: We were turning out of a side road onto a divided four-lane. What I mistook for a kid on a very small, solid black bicycle rode down the side street’s dividing line, pulled the bicycle in front of our car, jumped off it and parked it in the right-hand lane of the divided highway directly in front of … Continue reading →
