Category: Rants & Observations
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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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There were chickens. There was roosting… and Evil Took A Bow
Another day of building the fix for the HollysWritingClasses.com website. And then a day of coming in late, and tired… and falling into the story. I did not know that today was going to be the day one of my secondary villains came out of hiding. Or that the various things this character has done…
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Had no sleep last night, feel like crap. 127 words
It’s something. That’s all I can say. I’m going to do two more small things today, and then go sack out on the couch. Get Holly’s Free Fiction Sampler, plus Weekly Fiction Updates, and when these books go on sale, get invited to the launch.
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Ya gotta love an evil plan…
…And in Book 4 of the Ohio Series, way toward the end, (where I only have about 14,000 words left to finish the damn thing… The Evil Plan just crawled out of the woodwork. Not just for my characters. FOR. ME. I’m at roughly seventy-six thousand words in the FOURTH book of the series, with…
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Juggling work… and work… and WORK… 70,935 words total
Holly’s Writing Classes is on old software, and I’ve delayed as long as I can on upgrading it. Now I’m having to move it to really nice PROFESSIONAL class delivery and teaching software… and even though I have awesome moderators who are helping me do this, there’s some stuff ONLY I can do, and even…
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So today I’m sixty-one… RIGHT…
We had our little pizza and birthday-pie (I’m not a cake fan) celebration last night, because Matt doesn’t have today off. So today, while I AM going to be taking the day off from the novel, I’m working on fixing the HollysWritingClasses.com website. Doing a big overhaul, upgrading stuff to a new platform and new…
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Today I studied the map, asked WHY… made good progress on OUTLINE 5… figured out why YESTERDAY crashed…
Can’t say today was easy. I walked in circles (literally) because pacing helps me generate ideas, talked to myself out loud to ask important questions, looked at my map and drew a few circles on it to identify story issues… And then I went back to the line-for-scene outline and managed to come up with…
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Have figured out the plot summaries for Ohio 4 and Ohio 5 — now to the line-for-scene outlines
Kind of a headdesk day today. Been at this for about three hours already, and it looks like I’ve only achieved 60 words so far: A 30-word plot sentence for Ohio 4, and a 30-word plot sentence for Ohio 5. It’s a lot more than that, though. While I can’t count any of the words,…
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Reworking the Ohio #4 Outline — The outline from the current chapter on is “burn to ground, start over”
As noted in yesterday’s post, today’s work has required me to gut the outline for Book 4, and rethink. While I’ll be able to keep the scenes I’ve already written in Book Four, I won’t be able to keep much of any of the future scenes I’d planned. Progress is slow, and also (big surprise)…
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“No plan survives first contact with the enemy…”
Or second contact… Or third… The quote may come from Helmuth von Moltke the Elder, or Carl von Clausewitz, or Dwight D. Eisenhower… or just some dude who knew shit. But it’s true — and it isn’t just true about war. It’s true about any sort of creation that requires spontaneous adaptation to unknowable but…