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Our Plots are Different

06 Saturday Feb 2016

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Historical fiction, Holly Lisle, MK Tod, plotting, Stephen Denham

Plotting2I’m sure we all think that our own genre is unlike all others…

I remember, years ago when I first took one of her courses, trying to convince Holly Lisle that I couldn’t, couldn’t, couldn’t plot quite like her other pupils because I wrote historicals… Continue reading →

Revising Revising…

07 Tuesday Jul 2015

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Holly Lisle, Kit Marlowe, Novel, second draft

reviseSo. A full month has gone by – and then some – and I have started revising my novel.

Or at least, I have started working on my second draft. Or perhaps not even that – not yet. What I have done is this:

1) I’ve started doing bits of preliminary work as learned from Holly Lisle‘s How To Revise Your Novel – big picture things like getting a clearer idea of what I want this novel to be once I’m done with it… Continue reading →

Writing Surprises

23 Thursday Apr 2015

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free-writing, Holly Lisle, Judy Reeves

justwriteI first came across the notion of daily free-writing six or seven years ago, through Holly Lisle, and liked it well enough. Continue reading →

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