I’m totally failing to be modest, but I’m happy, and this is so COOL! Came in this morning expecting to see a drop, and instead, now Longview 1: Born from Fire is #1 in TWO categories! SF/Fantasy Free Short Literature & Fiction Free Short Little Kid –> Christmas Morning –> ME! Use the link above to take a look and … Continue reading →
This free workshop focuses on three things: Helping you build ideas — LOTS of them — that are right for your stories (instead of waiting around for ideas to come to you) Helping you create the right characters for your stories (instead of using random walk-ons who then drag your story in directions you didn’t want to go) Helping you … Continue reading →
There are apparently 7000 different ways to ask this question, and since I have only answered a couple hundred of them in the past two weeks, I’m trying to get ahead of the curve here. The answer is no. Not just no, but HELL, no! No, you don’t have to go to college if you want to be a writer, … Continue reading →
Like other folks, lots of writers have pets. And while it had been a whole lot of years since I had pets, for Christmas my guys got me a cat. Sheldon. Very cool cat. Likes to help. Really likes to help with revision, which is generally not an area where I welcome help. Here. Let me show you… How about … Continue reading →
So I’m working on the TalysMana revision. And because of the way I did the first draft of that story, I was looking for someone online. By name. Had the WHOLE name. And the one place that name came up was in Linkedin. Okay, I thought. I have a Linkedin account. I don’t use the damn thing, but I have … Continue reading →
I received today a truly wonderful email from a very kind woman with whom I had previously corresponded. In it she talked about this being the year of Christian/Jewish Restoration, and about how we were both due, and about how “I know you don’t like God all that much…” And she included a video to a beautiful Christian song, and … Continue reading →
Today was going to be my Get The Minerva Wakes Hardcover Done day. But I work exclusively on a Mac. And in indie publishing, POD publishers give no love to the Mac. I did a gorgeous job of formatting the book. All chapters on right-hand pages. No headers or page numbers on chapter pages. Nothing on blank left-hand pages opposite … Continue reading →
Last Friday, I printed out my manuscript and my revision worksheets, located my pens, and set everything aside. Saturday was to be my first day of revision. And Saturday with the the big table cleared for writing, I started into revising my badly wrecked fantasy novel TalysMana, written back in 2010. I was planning on doing the way I always … Continue reading →
This story has been done (except for the teaser for Episode 4) since early 2015. It’s the follow-up to The Selling of Suzee Delight, and follows the regulars from the first two episodes, plus some new folks. Tales from The Longview is my approach to a dystopian universe — told from the point of view of people not content to … Continue reading →
Today I made my two Lists of Three: the three projects in fiction and the three projects in nonfiction I will complete before starting anything else. I also deleted 6883 people from my Holly’s Writing Tips mailing list. I got the other mailing lists cleaned up last year, but my Writing Tips list was my very first list, and I … Continue reading →
