Category: How To’s
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Writer-Related Stuff… The Thursday List, and why it’s on hold.
I was building a really nice writing-tips email list for my writers. Every Thursday, (or mostly every Thursday), I was creating one new writing tip, answering a writer’s question, demonstrating a quick version of some technique I’ve found helpful… And then the HollysWritingClasses.com class software died. Hard. And we spent six months installing new software,…
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6:47 AM – Finishing Ohio 4, starting Ohio 5, while building the new HollysWritingClasses.com site
SO… My website over on HollysWritingClasses.com is undergoing a massive overhaul (complete site rebuild). And I anticipated the process taking FOUR months. Turns out… it’s probably not anything like that. My amazing community moderators over there have already finished building all the classrooms in the new software, and getting all the class materials into them…
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HAPPY DANCE!… Ohio 3 first draft finished at 89,556 words and 1828 for the day
Today was a good day. I had to delete one whole chapter, and I ended up writing about three times as many words as what shows, because of that giant chunk of deletion. But I landed the next to last chapter, and retrofitted the last chapter to fit the new stuff today. The last chapter…
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Rediscovered Worldbuilding Workshop: Holidays in Hell and Other Delights
I was doing a BIG search on my hard drive for something I’d previously written about Tangerine, who was a minor character in Hunting the Corrigan’s Blood who became a major character in the current novel, The Wishbone Conspiracy (for which as I blog this, I have not yet gotten my full complement of words for the…