Why I shut down my Patreon fundraiser
I’d intended to send a Questions & Answers email to my How to Write a Novel launch list, but that’s going to have to wait.Instead, I did THIS. Closed my “Move out of Florida while writing fiction”...
View ArticleMain Character Transition
Aleksa has discovered having people trying to kill her, in some odd way, agrees with her. Her life, derailed when she was fifteen, has taken an odd turn suddenly, and she discovers that she has...
View ArticleStaging A Rescue of the Untrusting
Back to Ki’s POV, and him pulling Aleksa out of a situation he previously got her into. I did 3588 words on Lesson Four of HTRYN today, and was pretty happy to get the 287 I managed on Dreaming the...
View ArticleAleksa learns the secret
Ki finally admits the truth to Aleksa…and she didn’t react the way I expected. Interesting. So tomorrow, I’ll pursue the conversation further, and find out why she responded as she did. 293 words. How...
View ArticleFInished 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...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleThe New Paranormal Suspense Covers
I finished the following covers for my upcoming novels today: Midnight Rain Midnight Rain: “He’ll NEVER forget you…” I See You I See You: “Someone’s watching…” Last Girl Dancing Last Girl Dancing:...
View ArticleI have NEW Fiction and Nonfiction available!
It’s taken a while to get past the indigestible lump that was How To Think Sideways, but from now on, I’m hoping to get at least one new item into print every month. This month, I have two—LIGHT...
View ArticleThe Ghost Who’ll Be Coming to Ohio
"What happened to Julie? She was here..." 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,...
View ArticleOhio progress, AND almost done with the new HollysWritingClasses.com site.
Today I got 458 words on Ohio 5, which was 458 more than I figured I’d get. And I liked what I got, which was a continuation of the situation my characters walked into yesterday. I’ll take the weekend...
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