Holly Lisle: Writing, Fiction, & Discovery
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Online Time Wasters
I did the nerd test. I’m pretty nerdy. I did the Mad Libs Fairy Tale. It was a keeper. Decided to keep it here. I don’t know what to call it. Sad, maybe. Once upon a time, there was a superfluous, trite girl named Gloriana. Everyone loved Gloriana, but that didn’t matter. You see she…
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Raunchy sex scene time
The villain in all her mini-skirted, stiletto-heeled glory, one of the good guys who knows who she really is . . . or at least who she really isn’t, and an apartment bathroom with big mirrors and lots of them. I don’t do many sex scenes in my books, but the villain wants to interrogate…
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Glorious Alehandri
This character came to me today that I’m going to have to use in a book. She isn’t going to fit in any meaningful way into the WORLD GATES series, but I might be able to find a place for her at the Matrin table. She’s wonderful. She’s a stunner in her world, chased after…
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The clash of other voices
I can’t read fiction when I’m on a tight deadline. I can’t look through anyone else’s eyes but mine at anything if I have to do a significant number of pages a day. I’m too susceptible to other’s voices, and have to much trouble breaking away from someone else’s world to find my own. I…
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Quitting at 1217 words
I’m too tired. The letters are starting to boogie. Download as PDFPrint Page
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What the night will offer, I’ll take
Starting deep into darkness tonight — both timewise and a with a slant on the story. Spent today thinking about the nature of my several soulless characters, and discovered that early on, they gave up their souls willingly to gain physical immortality — but now, eons later, they are weary of their roles as dark…
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A probable day off
I hadn’t scheduled it because of the brutal deadline (one book this month, plus going over page proofs on BOTH Vincalis the Agitator and Memory of Fire before month’s end . . . However, today is my little guy’s birthday, and I don’t see spending the time while he’s awake writing. Maybe once he’s asleep.…
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And one of my heroes reveals a dark past, and feet of clay
Poor Nebuchadnezzar — still taking shit thousands of years after his death. Was it Nebuchadnezzar? So anyway, my pure-as-the-driven-snow good guy, the one who I’ve really liked through all of one book and a significant chunk of this on — turns out to have a real dark side, and an unpleasant history. Surprise. That’s the…
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Frustration
Frustration. I’m getting tired, and don’t have enough words yet. Download as PDFPrint Page
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And now for the view from empty eyes
In the head of the hollow man, looking at those who have everything he can never have. Scary viewpoint. Download as PDFPrint Page
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