Stories of Significance
4
Nov
Of course when we start writing, we love the idea. Then revising we see everything that could be better, or rather, we get the feeling they could be better, but pre-HTRYN we don’t have the vocabulary to explicitly define and therefor fix what’s not as good as it could be. And that’s disappointing. The cumulative […]
Tags: Gift of the Ancients, Holly Lisle, How To Revise Your Novel
7
Oct
So after the extreme butt-whooping of Lesson 7, after part of a morning of bashing my head against a wall I got Lesson 8 done in one day (after reading it through a few times the previous day), and then did the same for Lesson 9. That got me two whole lessons done in just one week! I am now done […]
Tags: Gift of the Ancients, Holly Lisle, How To Revise Your Novel
29
Sep
How To Revise Your Novel has required a lot of work, a lot of time and a LOT of worksheets, but Lesson Seven (which ended up using more paper than my novel did) took the cake. And..it was worth it. Here at last l acquired a vocabulary to define not one but several missing elements that before I had no way to […]
Tags: Holly Lisle, How To Revise Your Novel, Writing Courses
27
May
Recovering from a week away for a family wedding, I pulled out Lesson Four again and spent some time writing a new “one sentence summary” of my first Nanonovel, Gift of the Ancients. I had a one sentence summary for the story before I wrote it, but Holly Lisle’s way of going about it is different than Randy Ingermanson’s (I used […]
Tags: Gift of the Ancients, Holly Lisle, How To Revise Your Novel, Nanowrimo, Randy Ingermanson, Snowflake
16
Apr
So this week I have made the time to prepare a new undertaking. I got further in revising my novel Phoenix and the Vulture than the progress bar currently indicates (will fix that soon), and then got blindsided by other commitments. Lesson learned? Don’t make other commitments! The new goal is to go back to my first Nanonovel, […]
28
Jan
…is the title of lesson two in How To Revise Your Novel, and it’s so interesting. The basic issue is that whatever we spend a lot of words on leads the reader to believe that this item or person is important. If you’ve plotted first, you will plan to do this for your main characters and […]
17
Jan
16
Jan
So this Saturday is turning out like I’d intended the last one to. I’ve made it through a big portion of my novel going through the first lesson of Holly Lisle’s “How To Revise Your Novel” and it’s good to look the difficult bits in the face. There really aren’t that many. It will take effort to fix them, […]
6
Jan
29
Nov
Thank you, thank you. I’d like to thank the academy.… Just kidding. But today I completed my 50 000 words for Nanowrimo this year, and a few hundred words after that I finished the actual story, very rough first draft. Phew! I am hoping to get in on Holly Lisle’s new class, How To Revise Your Novel (which this one will […]
Tags: Holly Lisle, Nanowrimo
