No big secret that I’m working hard on making my fiction a full-time paying gig again — my objective is to earn 50% of my income from fiction, with the other 50% coming from my writing classes. Fiction has been shoved over in a corner for years, because, well — writing good nonfiction is about a million times easier than … Continue reading →
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, and am still working on … Continue reading →
The move over at HowToThinkSideways.com is starting We’re starting to move member accounts onto the live new software, new domain, and new classrooms this week. In order to receive your new temporary password, you MUST have a working email address in your current account. Here are the steps to make sure you’ll be able to get to your stuff (INCLUDING … Continue reading →
I’ve set up today’s writing chat so I should be able to answer some live questions along with the ones asked previously. IF YOU HAVE WRITING QUESTIONS… Today’s topics are: Story Planning (Plotting) Character Development Writing from Different Points of View What About Genre Writer Myths AND Writing Myths Revision and Editing (Are NOT Synonyms) And I have downloadable notes sheets and … Continue reading →
I forget I can’t do everything. I forget I can’t work sixteen hours straight every day with no days off for two weeks without paying a price. I forget that when I am doing a massive website overhaul, with software testing, course setup, and course formatting and production going on simultaneously, I lose my creative side. I forget, and plan … Continue reading →
Margaret (my amazing tech wizard) and I have been working fourteen-to-sixeen hour days regularly for a while, and the last week has been dawn-to-pass-out with neither of us doing anything else. But the end result as that the software she built for me that will allow me to offer all my multi-lesson courses in classrooms with all the goodies right … Continue reading →
Still scrambling to get the 7-Day Crash-Revision Workshop done and up. About there. Have done a bunch of words over the weekend, but these don’t count. Looking forward to getting back to Create A World Clinic. 😀 … Continue reading →
Margaret and I are doing the push to finish testing on the classroom; no words yesterday, won’t be any today or tomorrow. We’re close to done, but not there yet. Hope you’re getting lots, though. And good ones, too.
The work I got on World Clinic yesterday, all 2487 words of it :mrgreen:, will have to suffice for today as well. The third series of Downton Abbey came out yesterday. Matt and I had discovered the show right after the new year, and had already been through the first two series (twice) since then. So yesterday after I finished … Continue reading →
Yesterday, got 1296 words, split between worksheets and book text, on Create A World Clinic, and I’m now digging into the Line World. I came up with a second “Instant World” demo technique for this, and today will be working out my actual demo. My Muse LOVES demos, because it means we get to write fiction and nonfiction at the … Continue reading →
