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 →
I finished up the write-in revision this morning, and while I was at it, completed the story blurb: TALES FROM THE LONGVIEW, EPISODE 4: Gunslinger Moon When freedom is silenced, how does it speak? Ex-PHTF slave WE-39R (This Criminal, from Episode 1), renamed Jex, is part of a team the Longview’s Owner has tasked with finding the meaning behind Bashtyk … Continue reading →
Just the link. Still have a ton of work to do before I sleep. … Continue reading →
Had a really good writing day today, to the point of getting sucked into the story, forgetting to keep track of my timer, and writing about half an hour over my planned hour. Details here. Because I wrote more elsewhere, and am already behind on the other things I need to do today. … Continue reading →
So I printed out my draft of The Vipers’ Nest, and today I read through it, sorting as I went. 32,000 words of what I wrote came out, and will go into Longview 5: The Vipers’ Nest Keeping Matt’s comments in mind, I focused on finding the quiet space for this story. This story will just be the tale of Jex. … Continue reading →
Sometimes you finish a book and you know you don’t quite have it. I’d done my short version print-out, read-through revision of Longview 4: The Vipers’ Nest. Finished the story last Tuesday with 40,000-plus words, which made it officially a novel. But back of the mind said, Don’t say anything. Not yet. You don’t have it right yet. So I … Continue reading →
Got a little sidetracked this morning. Had a 9th grader ask me if I had any suggestions about how to write from a prompt. Was a nice, literate email, and it asked about PROCESS, not if I could help with the actual homework. So I added a new article to the site: How to Write Something Good from a Prompt … Continue reading →
I was writing the battle scene in Longview 4: The Vipers’ Nest, and I thought things were getting a little away from me. And all of a sudden Herog had a revelation about the battle he was fighting that told me three things: How a tiny space station in an out-of-the-way corner of its galaxy becomes a genuine power to … Continue reading →
No secret that I haven’t been getting a lot of fiction written lately. Between building and getting the HollysWritingClasses.com website ready to come out of beta, and editing a collection of short fiction by students, and writing a brand-new Version 2 of How to Write a Series, I’ve been working long hours and weekends and I didn’t see where I … Continue reading →
