Holly Lisle: Writer

Category: WORLD OF KORRE

  • Yipes! It’s Friday [Snippets]!

    Time flies when someone is wrecking your book. I can’t believe it’s Friday again. Here’s Aaran (that unnecessary male) when he makes his first appearance in HAWKSPAR. Second scene–the entire second scene, not just a snippet, so it’s really long. (Hence the more note two paragraphs down so that I don’t kill the important shipping…

  • And on to saner things, plus Book Giveaway update

    The GREEN MAGIC I proposal left at the beginning of the week, unmentioned and unlauded, but done at last to my satisfaction. HAWKSPAR is unresolved–I won’t know anything more about it until I hear back from my agent, Robin. And I am in the midst of happier–much happier–things. THE RUBY KEY, you see, felt short…

  • So. HAWKSPAR…long story short.

    It ain’t all over yet, but here’s what happened with HAWKSPAR, and where I am now: Back in November-ish of last year, the editor working with me on HAWKSPAR (we’ll leave names out of this) told me about 55,000 words needed to come out of the 190,000-word story if I wanted to have it printed…

  • HAWKSPAR problems

    Some significant editing problems surfaced during my revision of the copyedit of HAWKSPAR. I’m on hold on the revision while we sort them out. So this week I’ll be finishing the type-in of the GREEN MAGIC proposal, and getting back to the revision concepts for RUBY KEY.

  • FRIDAY SNIPPET: The Stowaway

    I’m doing Hawkspar copyedits today, so this snippet is fresh in my mind. This is from Aaran’s POV (Aaran is by this time captain of his own beat-up ship and on his way to rescue Hawkspar). Some of the men have caught a young stowaway on board, and locked him in one of the ship’s…

  • A Book Giveaway (sort of)

    Lots of my novels for free if you’ll pay the postage.

  • Friday Snippet–A piece of the rat scene from Hawkspar

    This is a very short section of an enormous scene in HAWKSPAR, in which the heroine of the story, not yet Hawkspar, is being put on trial for the implied sins of her mentor. NOTICE: This material is copyrighted, first draft, probably buggy, and possibly not even going to be in the final draft. Do…

  • Finally back to work

    Writing of any variety hasn’t been going too well the last few days. Stress doesn’t go away when things start looking better, because the possibility that they’ll get worse again always exists. But I’m making nice progress on the type-in of the Green Magic proposal right now. It feels good to be writing again. I…

  • Missing Time, The HAWKSPAR Copyedit, and a fine line-for-scene

    So we have the heroine breaking the hero out of prison, and the hero getting shot and being half an inch from death, and stuff I’m not going to tell you about, and more stuff I’m not going to tell you about, and then the heroine telling the hero that’s when she killed herself, and…

  • Belated Friday Snippet: Hawkspar

    It’s been a grim week. Got most of the writing done, but it’s been hard. Snippet this week is from HAWKSPAR. Apologies for being so late with it. NOTICE: This material is copyrighted, first draft, probably buggy, and possibly not even going to be in the final draft. Do not quote or repost anywhere or…