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 to. This is as good … Continue reading →
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 hunter who hasn’t found at … Continue reading →
There was a point in my writing career where I was blogging as I wrote. I’d do a starting wordcount and the day’s objective, post little snippets of something I wrote while the letters were still glowing from the heat, build a new post as a digression from my worldbuilding or research (research was the origin of a lot of … Continue reading →
I did NOT get Vipers’ Nest completed. However, I did get the write-in revision of A Few Good Men done. It was a red-ink bloodbath — and when I say this, realize that I killed not one but THREE red pens in the process of fixing this sixty-page manuscript. The How to Write Short Stories folks will get to see the massacre … Continue reading →
Monday morning… Wild Optimism. Will have Vipers’ Nest done by end of day Tuesday. Seven hours in, I was only a short way into the new bug-hunter’s sheet I’d started. Tuesday morning… Well, I’ll surely at least be finished with this one bug-hunter’s questions by the end of today. Seven hours later, I’d finished one third of of the SAME … Continue reading →
I built a breathing space for myself. Lesson 5 of How to Write Short Stories is done, with one exception that I’ll get to in a second HollysWritingClasses.com is almost done and out of beta, and the parts of it that aren’t are NOT things I can work on or help with My mailing list is on autopilot for a … Continue reading →
My Choose-Your-Own-Adventure email game has gone live! You can play the game now if you’re already a list member, or restart at ANY time (using your same email) by joining the adventure at the bottom of any page on this site… Or if you don’t see the Adventure sign-up on your browser, you can join the game HERE. The game … Continue reading →
I’m going to need some beta readers for the story that was going to be Vipers’ Nest. So much changed in the writing of it that the Vipers’ Nest in that title turned into a side plot, and the title no longer fits. As I mention in the afterword (written just a few minutes ago) things change. This time they … Continue reading →
Dan is getting ready to take the next-to-last set of HollysWritingClasses.com upgrades live, and has been working with old payments on our test site to do that. For reasons I have not yet figured out, BoxBe notices have been sent to the students (and me) claiming emails were waiting for them. These look like this: None of us should be … Continue reading →
It’s done! It feels like I’ve been working on Vipers’ Nest forever. I can’t believe it, but it’s finally fully and completely revised, and I LOVE the way it came out. This has been a brutal project, because it hit in the middle of personal chaos, website chaos, GDPR chaos… And for the longest time, I couldn’t find the ending. … Continue reading →
