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December 18, 2018
Podcast Technical Difficulties
Becca was out of town, a raw cut of just her talking got uploaded instead of the edited episode, so she’s working on getting what was to have been today’s episode corrected. The broken one has already been pulled down.
HOWEVER… (yeah, there’s always one of those), this being the holiday season, lots more people are uploading things, so we cannot know when the correct, finished episode will become available.
We apologize for the error, and will have the next episode to you as quickly as possible.
NEW Fiction, BARGAIN price: The Longview Chronicles and The Owner’s Tale
I’m delighted to announce that The Longview Chronicles, the complete six-book series in one volume, is on sale through Friday for $2.99— regular price will be $7.99 for the complete series in ebook form, but I wanted all of my folks to get the whole series for the price of one episode.
For folks who are wondering, Cady is in the series (as is Herog), and this is the (very big) book that fits between Cadence Drake: Warpaint and the next novel, Cadence Drake: The Wishbone Conspiracy, and shows you what’s happening during and right after the end of Warpaint.
When the trusted are monsters, one monster becomes a hero…
In the vast reaches of Settled Space, everything is legal, or at least obtainable privately… for a price.
Science has created near immortality, and the wealthy and powerful are buying it to make themselves gods. But these gods require–and create–an endless procession of manufactured criminals who become human sacrifices for their amusement…
Until one twisted creature born to be a sacrifice discovers the truth. This escaped slave declares a secret war against corruption, enslavement, and the wealthy, powerful men and women who have declared themselves gods, and made their whims law.
THE COMPLETE SERIES IN ONE VOLUME
Born From Fire
The Selling of Suzee Delight
The Philosopher Gambit
Gunslinger Moon
Vipers’ Nest
The Owner’s Tale
Get this book from your favorite bookstore.
(And if you love it, please leave a review…)
And for folks who already have the first five, for the rest of this week, The Owner’s Tale, the brand new concluding episode, will be on sale for $.99.
When the truth comes out, who is left standing?
In this final episode of the series. the Longview reveals its secrets, Herog finds the path to protecting the City of Furies, and Melie discovers the truth about the ship she captains and the owner she serves.
MEET THE LONGVIEW – An Ancient Spaceship Resurrected To Transport Conspiracy
Inhabited by a crew of misfits fleeing nightmare pasts, with a cargo of Condemned slated to die at the hands of the highest bidders, and with a passenger roster made up exclusively of people NOT who they claim to be, The Longview serves the hidden agenda of an eccentric recluse bent on playing puppetmaster to all of Settled Space.
Get this from your favorite bookstore.
(And if you love it, please leave a review…)
December 17, 2018
The How to Write a Novel Lesson Sampler — Part Two
So as promised, here’s the second Lesson Sampler from my in-progress How to Write a Novel class.
I’ll note that:
Registration for the class closes tomorrow night at 11:59 PM Eastern Time, and that…
This is the only time How to Write a Novel will be available for the Early-Bird price. When registration reopens sometime next year, the price will go up significantly.
Necessary info out of the way, though, here’s your download.
The How To Write A Novel Sampler: Part 2
This is not an overview of the course lessons.
This is the first 7-9 pages of each of the second seven lessons of the course. This sampler does NOT include worksheets, demos, videos, or the forum, of course. It’s JUST the first part of each lesson.
As long as you leave the material in its existing form (including the PDF format), you’re welcome to share this course sampler with anyone you like.
Download your excerpts from the second seven lessons of How to Write a Novel.
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I hope you find this helpful with your own novel writing.
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December 14, 2018
The How to Write a Novel Lesson Sampler — Part One
Sometimes it’s tough to explain what a class is, how it works, why it isn’t like every other class out there.
Sometimes (well, most times) it’s a lot easier to SHOW…
So in this PART 1 demo of my How to Write a Novel class, I’ve taken the first 7 to 9 pages of each of the first seven lessons, exactly as they are in the live class.
This includes typos — and I need to mention that because I’m currently writing this class one lesson ahead of the first group of students, at a pace of one lesson per week, and I don’t at the moment have time to go back and fix typos.
All the students in my classes get all in-version updates of their classes at no extra charge — and the folks in first get a better price, because they know there are going to be splinters — typos, places where I could have done better showing them how to do something.
Once I finish the whole class in this version, I’ll go back through it with a group of students who will help me find all the bugs, and I’ll fix it. And when that’s done, it’ll will become the finished version, at the finished-course price.
Because PDFs hang around forever, you may receive this PDF after that process is complete.
But perhaps not. In either case, I apologize for the typos, the little grammar misses, and the other errors that come with publishing raw first draft.
I hope you find the content helpful in showing you part of what you’ll need to know to write novels well.
The How To Write A Novel Sampler: Part 1
This is not an overview of the course lessons.
This is the first 7-9 pages of each of the first seven lessons of the course. This sampler does NOT include worksheets, demos, videos, or the forum, of course. It’s JUST the first part of each lesson.
As long as you leave the material in its existing form (including the PDF format), you’re welcome to share this course sampler with anyone you like.
Download your excerpts from the first seven lessons of How to Write a Novel.
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December 12, 2018
The Titanic of Launches
And by that I mean that it was the worst launch start I’ve ever been through.
Better yet, the wreck was my fault. I had, you see, this wonderful idea. We would have a way for folks in the shop to buy gifts for other writers, and to send those gifts directly — nice little note that the writer included straight to the friend’s email, link in the note to the class the writer bought for the friend, account created automatically for the friend IF the friend didn’t have one…
Neat, right?
And I pushed to have it ready for the launch. So if you wanted to, you’d be able to buy How to Write a Novel for your friend at the awesome Early-Bird price.
And at the last minute, I realized there was no way we could have it ready in time, so Dan shut it down, put us back on the regular launch, and off we went…
We thought.
But I did not give Dan the time he needed to test the launch process, because of that whole LAST MINUTE thing…
“We have a deadline, and we can’t see where we’re going, so let’s just drive faster.”
The captain of the Titanic…
And me.
So…
The class registration page is working now.
Class registration is open. Folks are heading in, getting their first lessons, introducing themselves, starting on their new novel.
I apologize for yesterday’s chaos, and I hope I’ll see you there.
How to Write a Novel
Early-Bird Price, $57/month x 8 months, or $456 single payment
This price will only be available now through next Tuesday, and then never again.
(The count-down timer is up at the top of the page.)
The class is self-paced, so you cannot fall behind,
includes lessons with step-by-step instructions,
worksheets,
demonstrations,
forum discussions, and
answers to your questions from me, moderators, and other students who are doing what you’re doing.
The class is already full of amazing people who are writing their novels.
And you can be one of them, AND get the Early-Bird Bonuses:
Weekly “Write-Along-With-Me” demo video of me writing MY class novel live
Brainstorm the Class Graduation Bonus (this is a separate small class I make exclusively for the folks who buy HTWAN — it’s not available for separate purchase)
Vote on the Class Graduation Bonus you want
You want to write a novel. Start it. Build it. And FINISH it.
You can do this.
Holly
P.S. It takes about five minutes from purchase to starting class. If you’re new to my classrooms, don’t skip the instruction video on the course intro page.
How to Write a Novel
December 4, 2018
IT’S A SIGN!!! – Moon & Sun Book 3: The Emerald Sun
A long time ago (back in 2006-2008), I wrote two novels I loved and younger readers loved.
The Ruby Key: Moon & Sun Book 1
The Silver Door: Moon & Sun Book 2
I’d started work on the third one, The Emerald Sun: Moon & Sun Book 3…
And then Scholastic told me they weren’t going to continue the series. It would end with Book 3, and they would only want the third book if I took a massive pay cut.
I couldn’t afford to take the pay cut. We were already just squeaking by.
So I stopped working on the series, and wrote a bunch of writing books instead. Mugging the Muse: Writing Fiction for Love & Money, Create a Character Clinic, Create a Plot Clinic… and a long list of other books and classes I’m not going to name goes here, but that kept a roof over our heads and food in our bellies.
Meanwhile, however, I kept hearing from the kids who wanted to know what happened next with Genna, Dan, the Cat…
And now those kids are adults.
The rights to the first two books have reverted to me. Today I start the read-through of the first one to get back into the world, to get the voice back, and to find and take notes on any toys I left on the floor that I can pick up for Book 3.
And after I did the first run of reading, I got an unexpected gift.
During a Hard Drive Move (which is never anyone’s favorite thing) years ago (which I think coincided with our move from Georgia back to Florida, I lost track of the Book 3 outline and early chapters.
My older computer had become massively obsolete. I moved the backups to a new computer, and when I did this, Moon & Sun had already become a dead project, so I didn’t check to make sure I could find it.
Forward a bunch of years to when I wanted to find it, and I couldn’t. Realize… Macs have excellent backup, and really good search, and I knew what I was looking for. And no search term I had brought me to those manuscripts.
Today, on the day I started this project, I dug into an unrelated folder looking for something else, and found the entire Moon & Sun project in there, including the start of Book 3. Wasn’t where it was supposed to be, but everything opens, everything is readable, everything is usable.
It’s a sign. Time to write Book 3, time to get the first two into print again, time to bring this world back to life.
November 28, 2018
Email is the devil
Just sayin’…
People disbelieve me when I say I deal with a lot of email.
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November 19, 2018
Five Hours on the Bug Hunts
Worked from 9 AM to 2:30 PM today on the bug hunts of Longview 6: The Owner’s Tale.
It was a bit of a fiction orgy, and I was really hoping to have it done today.
Not so much, as it turns out. However, I am down to the last 97 bugs.
Considering that I started with 226, I did pretty well.
And my bug hunters are doing a spectacular job.
I’m hoping that The Owner’s Tale will be done and up on all the sites in ebook from by early next week.
Once it’s live, I’ll put together a print/e-book version of the entire series, because while the entire series is made up of six different stories, the stories read in order make up a single novel.
It was an interesting challenge I set for myself, and I’m very happy with how the ending came together and how the final episode wraps the whole thing up.
November 13, 2018
Grinding: Diablo 3, Knitting, Writing… LIFE
Problem: Not Enough Noro means I have to use a fill-in yarn
SOLVED: On November 3rd, I finished my Stained Glass Sweater, a project I’d been working on in small pieces since August 18th.
Problem: About two weeks ago (late in the actual season), I discovered that the Diablo 3 season had something I wanted. A Disembodied Hand pet.
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SOLVED: Sunday night,I got my Disembodied Hand by finishing the first four challenge levels of the current season of Diablo 3.
Problem: Can I show my readers enough of who the Owner is to actually have them care what happens to him?
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SOLVED: Yesterday the comments from my Bug Hunters for The Owner’s Tale, the concluding episode of Tales from the Longview, started coming in. And they cared.
And it suddenly occurred to me that:
knitting a sweater,
playing a Season in Diablo,
and writing a novel…
have an astonishing amount in common.
My bet here is that you’re going to think I’m nuts. But watch this…
The Common Ground of Knitting, Diablo 3 Seasons, and Novel Writing
They all require grinding.
Not familiar with the concept of grinding?
When you grind, you have a set series of achievable objectives before you that, if you complete them, will give you a reward.
Grinding always includes easier objectives and tougher objectives, and if you’re smart, you do the easiest stuff first and work your way into the more difficult bits, gaining skills and technical prowess (and better armor and weapons, or tools and techniques) as you go so that you can conquer the bigger battles without getting your ass handed to you too often.
The first objective is always simply this… Figure out exactly and specifically what it is that you want to accomplish.
In Diablo, I wanted to win the pet — the disembodied hand that runs around while you’re playing and picks picks up of all your gold so you don’t have to. I love Diablo’s weird pets, and the idea of that hand made me laugh.
With The Owner’s Tale, my objective was to wrap up the entire series and answer the final mysteries, whilepresenting the Owner and having his story and his life matter to readers.
With the sweater, it was to figure out how to use some gorgeous Noro Taiyo yarn in a colorway that was no longer available, and which I didn’t have enough of to make an entire sweater for myself. On August 18th, I came up with the little swatch below, and liked it enough that I didn’t tear it apart to try something else.
August 18: Interesting, workable sweater concept, with Rowan wool worsted to use to fill out the Noro I didn’t have enough of.
Well-chosen objectives are understandable.
With Diablo, I picked a Demon Hunter (had never played one of those before), and just started playing in the evenings when Matt was playing his stuff. My objective? Finish the Season, earn the Disembodied Hand pet and maybe some of the armor.
With The Owner’s Tale, I identified as my objective that when I’d finished my story, my readers would actually meet the owner — from his own point of view, which I had kept them away from up to this point. And Keyr would show them who he was, why he did what he did, and would wrap of the biggest mystery that has run since Episode 1 — what’s really going on in the Longview? And if I did it right, when they reached the end, they would care what happened to him.
With the sweater, I located a second yarn that went nicely with my bright Noro Taiyo, a nice, slightly flecky Rowan worsted wool that wasn’t quite black, but was almost.
And my test swatch looked like stained glass to me, and reminded me of windows my father built for churches and homes. I thought, yeah, that’ll work. And set my objective as making a sweater for myself kind of like the one I’d made for Becky, only different.
Well-chosen objectives are always recognizable.
When you finish an objective, you have to know you’ve finish it.
Diablo is great for this. The game has little icons that show up on the bottom of the screen, all gilt-edged and shiny, that tell you, Hey, you did SOMETHING good.
Knitting has stitch markers if you’re working with really big pieces. If you’re knitting modularly (in little shapes that you then knit together into bigger shapes), you just count modules.
August 22nd: One Back Panel
In writing, you count words and scenes, and you write toward discovering your story’s best ending, which is rarely the first one you think up.
Well-chosen objectives have a clear waypoints.
Diablo 3 is excellent at setting this up for the player. You have a series of four groups of objectives that move you to the first big reward. You’ll end up doing the first groups of stuff by accident—just by playing the game. As you clear each objective, you get a bright red badge beside it, so you can see clearly how many you’ve done, and how many you have yet to do.
You get a nice sense of progression, and you get absorbed in going deeper (occasionally looking things up on the Internet) so you can find and conquer the more obscure challenges and earn the remaining, more difficult progress markers.
With knitting, you’re building pieces of a whole, and you try them on as you knit them to make sure what you’re making fits.
August 24th: Progress on Second Back Panel
August 28th: Finished Back (stained class portion only)
September 14: Final MSU (Making Shit Up) workable idea for front pockets
MSU — Making Shit Up — is a technique I use in problem-solving for both knitting and writing fiction. This requires a moment of explanation, and I’m going to discuss this from the knitting perspective.
I don’t do pockets often. I’m sure lots of folks have come up with this way of making pockets in a modular sweater, but I didn’t research “How to make pockets.”
Instead, I thought about what I wanted them to look like, and how I wanted them to work, and then I tried different approaches until I came up with this one, in which the opening for the pocket is created by not joining the modules.
September 21st: Knitting in the pocket liner
And then by knitting in the pocket liner so nothing is sewn, and so the pocket will be sturdy. I’m sure lots of folks do this — but I get to claim this as my method (what Elizabeth Zimmerman would have called unventing) because even though a ton of other people have probably figured this out on their own, I figured it out on MY own. I invented this process for myself. This is what you do when you like your brain and want to keep it working. You push it to solve complicated problems every day.
As for writing fiction, Making Shit Up is one of my favorite methods for Avoiding Research. If you build the world, build the physics, build the languages, build the history, you don’t have to research the world. At its best, Making Shit Up is figuring out what you want something to do, and how you want it to work, and then experimenting until you get that.
Well-chosen objectives have achievable rewards.
Achievable means “If you do the work, you will get the reward.”
This is where Destiny and Destiny 2 are very bad games, and Diablo 3 is a very good game.
If you do the objectives in Destiny or Destiny 2, RNG (random number generation) decides whether or not you will get the rewards, and absolutely nothing you do can ensure that you will get the thing you want. Ever.
Which is why I finally quit playing Destiny.
I’m willing to grind like hell to get something, but I don’t like to have bait dangled over my head with “Yeah, you did all the stuff, but you still can’t have the thing you wanted.” Destiny is like a shitty boss who says, “Guess what? You didn’t get paid this week. But keep working. Maybe I’ll pay you next week. Or never. Mwa-ha-ha-ha-ha!”
Screw that. My time matters to me.
With Diablo 3, you know exactly what you’ll get if you do the specific tasks,and when you complete the last of those tasks, you get the stuff.
But you have to be persistent, because there are a LOT of tasks, and you’re starting out with a brand new, unleveled character that you have to take through the whole campaign first before moving on to doing bounties and other higher-level stuff. But if you play a little every evening (and maybe binge a bit on the weekends), you’ll get your goofy pet.
Then you have more tasks you can play through to get more stuff. I’m willing to work really hard for cool stuff, but I do require getting paid for that work. Diablo 3 pays on time and in full.
In knitting, you have to be persistent, because knitting is slow, and finicky, and you have to do a lot of ripping back and trying new things if you don’t use patterns (I never use patterns — I always just make shit up). But if you stick with it, and knit a little every day, you’ll eventually finish your sweater. And then you have something cool that you wanted.
October 17th: It took me seven tries to figure out
a way to do the sleeves that I didn’t hate,
but with this, I finally came up with something I liked.
October 23: Here you can see the sleeves coming together…
With writing, you have to be persistent. It, too, is something big made up of bunches of small parts. Tens or hundreds of thousands of words, dozens to hundreds of scenes, possibly dozens of chapters.
And if you show up regularly and do the work, you’ll create the small pieces that make the bigger parts that eventually finish the whole.
You do “X number of words per day” and you make that a number small enough that you CAN hit it every day you write. You don’t keep raising the number. You can write more on any give day, but your low, achievable number is your success number. So that on SHITTY days (and you will have them), you can still hit the low number, can still have a successful day, and can then go curl up on the couch with a good book and a cup of coffee and make Real Life go away for a bit.
Well-chosen objectives have to end with guaranteed success.
You set a goal you can reach, and you work to that goal.
I have my Disembodied Hand, and I get a kick out of watching it skitter around the screen picking up gold off the ground.
I have my oversized, warm, pockety sweater. All the ends are sewn in, the buttons are on, the button band came together perfectly, the Kitchener stitching on the waistband, collar, and cuffs turned out beautifully, and it’s as bright and pretty as I hoped it would be. Now I just need some cold weather so I can wear it.
November 3rd: Finished the Stained Glass Sweater
With The Owner’s Tale, I finished the story. I finished the revision. I finished the series. I made the owner of the Longview someone understandable and in some ways sympathetic. I wrote the story I wanted and needed to write, and in that, I succeeded.
Everything beyond that is out of my control, so nothing beyond that can be an objective for me.
I cannot make the story sell well. I cannot get it listed on best-seller lists. I cannot make it matter to anyone but myself. But it matters to me.
Well-chosen objectives have to matter to you.
I really wanted that hand. It’s gross, but it’s funny.
I really wanted that sweater. The more I worked on it, the more I could see what it could become if I did it right, and I wanted to wear it, to have that little tribute to the part of my father that I liked and respected, and to have something that was just that bright and cheerful and pretty.
With The Owner’s Tale, I could feel the power of the story building as I discovered the owner’s life before he started rescuing slaves on the Longview. I needed to know more about him, needed to discover why he gave a shit, needed to know why, when he got filthy rich, he didn’t just take his money and make himself a god. And I wrote the story I needed to read.
That’s what you’re looking for when you set objectives.
What you need in your life, step by step, with the end result that your life is better in big or little ways.
You cannot do everything. Cannot have everything.
But if you can identify achievements that matter to you, and can build out the steps that you can take to reach goals you can achieve on your own, and if you’re willing to then grind— to do the work, to show up in your own life and put in the effort and the focus — you can have that.
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