Author: Holly Lisle

  • Restarting Fiction Progress Updates

    To say that I’ve been absolutely shitty about keeping up with the blog would be too kind by half. I’ve been in Ohio now for a year and three months, more or less, and have written six posts since getting here. One of them was about my fiction progress. There have been some things that…

  • The How to Write a Novel Lesson Sampler — Part Two

    The How to Write a Novel Lesson Sampler — Part Two

    So as promised, here’s the second Lesson Sampler from my in-progress How to Write a Novel class. I’ll note that: Registration for the class closes tomorrow night at 11:59 PM Eastern Time, and that… This is the only time How to Write a Novel will be available for the Early-Bird price.  When registration reopens sometime…

  • The How to Write a Novel Lesson Sampler — Part One

    The How to Write a Novel Lesson Sampler — Part One

    Sometimes it’s tough to explain what a class is, how it works, why it isn’t like every other class out there. Sometimes (well, most times) it’s a lot easier to SHOW… So in this PART 1 demo of my How to Write a Novel class, I’ve taken the first 7 to 9 pages of each of…

  • Completed revision of The Owner’s Tale today – Next big step to getting back to Moon & Sun

    Completed revision of The Owner’s Tale today – Next big step to getting back to Moon & Sun

    This is the first revision I’ve ever done that didn’t even require the fixing of a typo on the first twenty-four pages, and had only the addition of a hyphen on page twenty-five. This is the lightest revision of a first draft I have ever done. And it’s making me a little crazy that I…

  • Upcoming Class: How to Write a Novel: What’s in the Lessons?

    Upcoming Class: How to Write a Novel: What’s in the Lessons?

    I’m going to do a live YouTube chat on Thursday, September 6 at 1:30 PM ET, and will be sending out a reminder email for folks who want to come. I’ll be answering questions about the upcoming class during the chat, and making sure I’ve covered everything folks need to know. So you’ll know what…

  • Debugging Plot: Episode 3 of Alone in a Room with Invisible People

    So here’s the gig on Debugging a Plot In Alone in a Room with Invisible People my newer-writer daughter and I — a long-time published writer — talk about writing, revising and publishing fiction. In this episode, we’re talking about how plots go wrong while you’re writing them — and some things you can do…

  • Announcing the Public Release of How to Write Short Stories

    Announcing the Public Release of How to Write Short Stories

    I did a private Members’ Only release of my new class, How to Write Short Stories, last week so that we could test software and make sure everything was working correctly. I’m now delighted to announce that the early sale was nearly bug-free… and we have squashed the few bugs that did get through. Right now,…

  • PDF and Print Page Options are back

    PDF and Print Page Options are back

    This took a bit of time and effort (and deleting one really annoying plugin that required an email address before you could get your PDF), and replacing the annoying plugin with a sort of pricy but really nice new one. But at the bottom of every article and post on the site now, you’ll find…

  • Longview 4: Gunslinger Moon

    Longview 4: Gunslinger Moon

    CHAPTER ONE Shay Shay closed her eyes and rubbed her temples. She’d been in her office for hours, a “Do Not Disturb” sign on her door, looking for any single tiny piece of new information that might let her believe hope still existed.That her stupidity had not destroyed Settled Space’s last best chance for freedom.…

  • Snapshot from the Fiction Frontlines

    It is in fact possible for the explosion of your revision to be a GOOD thing.