Category: Page-Turning Scenes
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Character Paranoia, and the State of Revision
I’m past the halfway mark on the read-through-note-taking process on Ohio 2. I have a lot of the first draft that I’ll be able to use as is. That’s good. I have written novels where I discovered the first draft was The Story I Don’t Want To Tell (and could still run into that in…
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A Giggly Scene, A Wicked Secret… and I Love You, Tomorrow
No big secret that these books are set in a decidedly sideways version of the Ohio town in which I live. I love this place, and I’m having a wonderful time building some seriously wacky shit into what is in reality a lovely old town with a great history, and some fine and friendly people.…
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In spite of a bit of uphill-ery, I got there. 1281 words, 62,753 total
And I managed along the way to muddy my feet on Vikings, evolutionary biology, predator psychology, and something that looks like next Monday it could traipse into the realm of the steamy near-miss. I also had a lot of wicked fun, got in a couple of funny one-liners, and at the end of the day…
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SURPRISED!!! Two characters who went missing reappeared today with a helluva story…
I didn’t know what to expect when I sat down to write today, and what happened when the words started rolling in came at me from out of left field. The whole writing time was pretty perfect — it answered a question I thought I’d lost track of, allowed me to bring back two folks…
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Wow! 1412 words, two hours… And LIGHTNING struck! (Or… “Am I making a huge mistake?”)
I’d written myself into a corner yesterday, and I had absolutely no clue what was going to happen next. See… Brain writes the outlines and the overall planning. Gut, however, writes the words, and Gut — like a willful horse — is entirely capable of getting the bit between his teeth and galloping straight toward…
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OHIO 5: Small words, but yesterday’s revelation continues to spawn big things
I got 272 words and now have 12,393. And what I got built on big, scary things that I discovered yesterday, and gave me a nice new segment of the same scene. I’ll be glad when I can spend more time on Ohio 5, but we’re in the last stages of replacing the old HollysWritingClasses.com…
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Yippeeeee!!! Good News on Ohio 5 & Writing Site Updates!
I had a blast this morning. Lost track of time, (and as a result got twice as many words as the last few writing days)… And I got a kick-ass start to Chapter Two. My MC is in trouble, her entire town is in trouble, and in MY tomorrow but her next three seconds, she…
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Why I shut down my Patreon fundraiser
I’d intended to send a Questions & Answers email to my How to Write a Novel launch list, but that’s going to have to wait.Instead, I did THIS. Closed my “Move out of Florida while writing fiction” fundraiser. Here’s why — it’s this clause in the Patreon Legal Agreement https://www.patreon.com/legal By posting content to Patreon you grant us a…
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The writing shop on HollysWritingClasses.com is now live
Even though my new Holly’s Writing Classes site is still in high beta, I’m delighted to finally have the writing shop open. We haven’t made the site pretty yet, and for the moment the shop is very plain and simple (no frills), but things work now. So I’ve brought back many of my previous classes,…
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Things Don’t Look Good for My Future With Apple
This is the follow-up post to Uncrippling the Lesson. As I said I would, I paid my book packager to create a separate version of How To Think Sideways, Lesson 6 that did not include links to Apple. I uploaded the corrected version. A couple days later, I got this message: Dear Holly Lisle, One…