Author: Holly

  • A marginally better morning

    I accidentally slept in until seven, but still had a better morning today — I rewrote one whole scene and more than half of the next one, working in the elements that had been missing in the first draft. I need about three uninterrupted eight-hour workdays to get into the flow of this and just…

  • Mud-Wrestling the Language

    It’s really starting to get me down. I got up at six this morning, struggled until ten, made scant progress. Scant. I don’t need scant right now, I need explosive, copious, mind-boggling progress, and instead, I’m neck-deep in mud and wrestling for my life. So after the little guy is asleep tonight, I’m going to…

  • First day of my new work year

    I’m sitting in a word war in chat right now, with flint, JeriT, Nonny, PuristLove, QAchyck, and robertsloan2, plugging away on a scene way late in Gods Old and Dark,and finally believing that I’m going to get to the end of this thing. I have the Good Playlist running — Acoustic #3 — The Goo…

  • The writing went well today

    Sheesh! I almost feel like dancing. Had a breakthrough this morning on the scene I’m rewriting (ended up deleting the original scene last night and starting over from scratch) and all of a sudden the thing fell together for me and flew. I haven’t had a lot of flying lately — it felt wonderful, and…

  • Weblog remains on hiatus

    I’ll bring it back to daily status as soon as I finish Gods Old and Dark. Right now, revisions are not in a happy state. I’m still hoping for December 31st as my wrap-up date, but that hope is getting a wee bit slimmer.

  • Great Devouring Christmas

    The great holiday morass sucked me in whole. I got back to the revisions for the first time in days today, and it was tough. Really tough. I spent about an hour just getting back into the flow of the story before I even started writing. I still have a ways to go, and a…

  • On Christmas Eve

    We’ve already done the better part of a month of celebrating, but we’re going to do the family stuff today and tomorrow. And as always, getting ready is both fun and time-consuming. Haven’t had a chance to write in the last couple of days. One of these years I’m going to remember to just eliminate…

  • I am still revising Gods Old and Dark

    I discovered a need for more Baanraak, and also for more of the Master of the Night Watch, Aril the keth, and have been adding scenes heavily. I also discovered, to my chagrin, that I managed to be fairly tedious through some of the first draft, and so have been removing scenes like a Civil…

  • Beefcake and the Queen of England

    Last night I dreamed I had an audience with the Queen of England, and out of gratitude, she gave me a gift — an adjustable paper ring, white, stamped with red ink that said “Compliments of the Queen of England.” She then sat in a throne above a long line of cars and threw similar…

  • Just finished the first draft of Gods Old and Dark

    On time, if a bit under budget. I’m going to have to add some significant chunks to the manuscript to bring the first part up to speed with the ending — but I finally found the ending I love. Hated having to kill off one of my favorite characters, of course. I hadn’t planned on…