Becky and I have our second episode live now. We jumped all over writing better characters, where it’s easy to make mistakes, how to prevent them, how to fix them… We had fun, and there are a few stories in this episode about how crazy characters can make you — and your story. Here’s what we cover: Basing Characters off … Continue reading →
The book went live about a week, week and a half ago. Maybe longer? I’ve been buried in getting the HollysWritingClasses.com site done, getting the affiliate program live, and it has been wall-to-wall, morning to night work for the last couple weeks. So while I did remember to publish the story, I missed mentioning my own book launch. Anywhere. To … Continue reading →
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 →
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’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 →
I’m doing some rearranging of the site. I’ll be adding links to what I’m creating. Aside from semi-regular posts in the blog and the occasional new writing article or fiction snippet, I’ve been running the blog along for years without doing much with it. But here’s the thing: I’m back to writing new fiction every weekday. I’m back to writing … Continue reading →
I’ve been doing “indie” stuff to get ready for bringing out Longview #4: Gunslinger Moon. I’ve put together a special SF & F Reader Notification list for folks who like the genres, and set up two free stories that you can get. The first you receive automatically when you join the list. Oddfolks is “odd fantasy.” You sign up and … Continue reading →
I have the next to last lesson in How to Write a Series almost finished THREE repubbed novels now working through a launch under a pseudonym (my first voluntary one) Six novellas I’m reworking, editing, and updating with new covers, formatting, debugging, and other clean-up, including the next NEW story, Longview #4: Gunslinger Moon One Really Spiffy Thing For Writers … Continue reading →
