Holly Lisle: Writer

Tag: ghost story

  • The Ghost Who’ll Be Coming to Ohio

    The Ghost Who’ll Be Coming to Ohio

    The text message at the top of this post (which I sent to Matt at 3:34 AM on 12/6/20) includes the date and time because my half-sister, Julie, died in 2016, before her birthday, which was December 3rd. I got the news of her death from my older son, Mark, who called Matt while we…

  • The Ghost Story, WABWM, and TALYSMANA

    I finished my ghost story. Title? >>>–4EVR—> The title means a lot. I got it to Trisha Telep in time, heard back that I’d made the deadline—and we are NOT going to talk about the morning-to-next-morning hours I worked for several days getting that revision done. What was supposed to have been a 6500-word story…

  • FInished My Ghost Story

    1399 words, and my ghost story, The Other Chance,; is done. The story in first draft runs 7641 words. I always add some words in second draft, because my first drafts run lean. I like my ending, I like the twist I got, and I definitely did not see the last bit going the way…