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 I’m planning on covering, you … Continue reading →
Because of a certain amount of chaos in my daily life right now, I forgot to mention LAST week’s TWO Alone In A Room With Invisible People podcasts. In the Brainstorming Workshop, Part 1, Becca and I develop idea pieces from scratch (using the free, no-opt-in downloadable worksheets linked from the podcast page). In the mini episode, we go over … Continue reading →
I’m writing The Owner’s Tale a little little differently than I usually work. I generally just do my first draft from beginning to end, but this time, because of the complexity of this story, I worked out the stages in the life of the Longview’s owner, and am having the owner tell the story of each stage as one short chapter. … Continue reading →
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 own book launch. Anywhere. To … Continue reading →
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 to. This is as good … Continue reading →
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 the first draft of Dreaming … Continue reading →
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 hunter who hasn’t found at … Continue reading →
Monday morning… Wild Optimism. Will have Vipers’ Nest done by end of day Tuesday. Seven hours in, I was only a short way into the new bug-hunter’s sheet I’d started. Tuesday morning… Well, I’ll surely at least be finished with this one bug-hunter’s questions by the end of today. Seven hours later, I’d finished one third of of the SAME … Continue reading →
My Choose-Your-Own-Adventure email game has gone live! You can play the game now if you’re already a list member, or restart at ANY time (using your same email) by joining the adventure at the bottom of any page on this site… Or if you don’t see the Adventure sign-up on your browser, you can join the game HERE. The game … Continue reading →
Today I spent three Patreon hours putting together the bug-hunter version of Longview 5: The One With The Broken Title. This involved cleaning up a significant amount of weird formatting in Scrivener — (my fault) — moving the project into .docx, then opening it in Vellum and doing the actual book formatting, setting and revising front matter, end matter, hand-setting … Continue reading →
