Category: The Longview
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Marketing Tuesday: Finished with my survey results (and a game)
So, for as long as I’m doing Marketing Tuesdays, I’ve made myself a little image — with Scary Halloween Lettering, because for me at least, trying to wrap my head around marketing is scary. But I have the most amazing readers. I had a massive response to my three-question quiz. Thank you to every single…
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Lost Words Found: I’m having a strange and disturbing morning…
I think in general we as human beings like to think we’re on top of things. That we have a pretty good bead on not just where we are, but where we’ve been, and where we’re going. I’m working on Lesson 16 of How to Write a Novel this morning, which is about voice and…
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NEW Fiction, BARGAIN price: The Longview Chronicles and The Owner’s Tale
I’m delighted to announce that The Longview Chronicles, the complete six-book series in one volume, is on sale through Friday for $2.99— regular price will be $7.99 for the complete series in ebook form, but I wanted all of my folks to get the whole series for the price of one episode. For folks who are wondering,…
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Grinding: Diablo 3, Knitting, Writing… LIFE
Problem: Not Enough Noro means I have to use a fill-in yarn SOLVED: On November 3rd, I finished my Stained Glass Sweater, a project I’d been working on in small pieces since August 18th. Problem: About two weeks ago (late in the actual season), I discovered that the Diablo 3 season had something I wanted. A Disembodied Hand pet. SOLVED:…
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Just finished the first draft of The Owner’s Tale — Moon & Sun 3 on deck.
So. Just now the first draft of The Owners Tale, the LAST episode in Tales from the Longview. Wrote the final thousand-ish words this morning and part of this afternoon, and for now, at least, I like the ending. I’ve printed off the manuscript (in 12 point Courier, double-spaced and with large margins, of course)…
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AIARWIP Episodes 4, 4.5, and 5: Brainstorming (with worksheets) & more
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…
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1021 words on The Owner’s Tale, and Lesson 7 of How to Write Short Stories
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…
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Vipers’ Nest is live
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…
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Vipers’ Nest bug-hunts: DONE!
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…
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Vipers’ Nest Homestretch — I hope…
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…