Holly Lisle: Writing, Fiction, & Discovery

I have my hunt for the old gods and the dark gods in progress, and the fate of a whole string of worlds hanging in the balance, and I’m having trouble pulling the trigger on some of the events in this story. It should be a fairly straightforward charge through this section, but it isn’t.…

Ah, for joy, for joy. Afraid I did a bit of a skim-job, but that’s only one of two books I have to check proofs on this month, and I still have to finish the novel. How does life work out its timing . . . really? Still, all I have ahead of me today…

A few of my characters will be talking to some of the old gods, none of whom have any particularly warm feelings for humanity right now. Following that, I’ll get to put a couple of the dark gods through their paces in Cat Creek this should be messy. I’d very much like to get my…

Got close. But my eyes are blurring so badly I can’t see the screen. Time to quit. Download as PDFPrint Page

Or at least to name a significant portion of them. It’s a bit of worldbuilding I’ve been putting off (and why I needed 112 worlds you don’t wanna know — at least not out of context.) But I had to have the names, I had to know the linkages, and I had to have them…

Matt had to do a paper, which meant I’m starting late. Still intend to make my pages today, though. Download as PDFPrint Page

I’m having better luck tonight. The scene is coming together nicely as I focus on the lies and double-crosses the various players are trying to carry off without getting caught. I have a walloping big surprise creeping up on a couple of my good guys, who were sure they’d just made the big catch. This…

Yesterday’s work didn’t go well. The sex scene as written was extraneous, and as always when I take off in the wrong direction, I stalled out. So today I’m going back in, making the sex fit, doing more development on the characters, and tying in more of the rest of the story to that scene.…