One final reminder that Holly Lisle’s epic How To Revise Your Novel course closes in four hours 
I know this course represents a significant investment (of time and money, but let’s face it, the money one is much scarier) so I want to say a big thank you to those of you who have […]
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Just a reminder that you have a little over a day and a half left before How To Revise Your Novel closes its doors for the next 12 months If you sign up through my link, you get the following bonuses: A free ebook copy of my forthcoming book on worldbuilding, From The Ground Up (Oct
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Hi again! Sorry, I’m late posting this because I had the worst trilogy of days EVER at the end of last week and couldn’t get to the computer to let you know, but Holly’s How To Revise Your Novel course is OPEN!! It’s closing on December 15 at 11:59pm US EST, so you have a
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So, I mentioned the other day that Holly Lisle, who is acclaimed around the nets and amongst authors for her high-quality learn-to-write classes, is opening her How To Revise Your Novel course for the ONLY time in the next 6 months, and possibly the only time until this time next year. What I didn’t mention,
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I mean, you’ve written this story, completed it even, and you’re on a high. You did it! You finished your story! Possibly even won NaNoWriMo at this time of year, too! Well done! You bask in the glory of the moment – as well you should. But then the inevitable happens: you go back and
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I thought I’d make this easy for you to find (if you’re interested) by embedding it right here! Sorry about all the link confusion the other day You can either watch right here on the blog, click through below to watch it on youtube, or click here to head to the original post, where
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…Actually more like 2.33 hours, but let’s not quibble. It starts like this: the inestimable Lindsay Buroker wanted to interview the Twinny One, Liana Brooks, notionally I think about her career as a hybrid author (i.e. an author who uses large publishers, small publishers, and also does self publishing – not an author who is
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One of the most commonly asked questions I get in my creative writing classes at school is how to get through middles. People get beginnings and endings intuitively, but the Middle Doldrums is where a lot of new (and not-so-new) writers have trouble. I struggled with middles for years and years, though many novels and
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Sometimes, when you’re writing, you hit the point where you just want to give up. On the current story, maybe, or maybe even on writing altogether. We’ve all been there, I promise. So this post is for me as much as for anything, and it’s as the title says: bookmark it for when you need
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Posted with Liana’s permission. [View the story “You Can DO This” on Storify] Read more:Insert Exciting Title Here!Iteration, Or, When Things Don't WorkHow To Theme: Chapter Two – Thesis Statements (Part 1)
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