You Are A Pine Tree You love agreeable company, peace, and harmony. Compassionate and friendly, you love to help others. A natural poet, you have a very active imagination. You are very soft on the inside – needing affection and reassurance. You can fall in love deeply, but you will leave if you feel betrayed. […]
The Better Part of ValorTanya HuffDate: 2002-03-01 — Book product page Rating: It ain’t called escapist for nothing. Not sure how this will show up, but here’s how I spent my day. (look for the picture) After yesterday, I found myself completely unable to cope with the fact Bly’s leaving tomorrow. So I
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Sixteen years of friendship down the drain. Because he’s perfect and I’m not, and while I’m perfectly willing to admit I’m not perfect, I won’t admit he IS. Whatever. Got my report in almost a month late, only to have them lose it and I have to send it again. They don’t believe they ever
I’m not stalling, honest. It’s a strategic withdrawal. No, really. I realized tonight the reason I had Taro printed out once already, was that was the ms Bly edited, and I hadn’t made the changes in the computer yet. So tonight instead of attacking Holly Lisle’s system, I worked on transferring the editing marks. I’m
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Okay, so I sat down with the dang thing. And guess what? Holly Lisle–who is not, no, the be-all and end-all of writing advisors, but is multi-published and seems pretty smart–Holly Lisle says Thou Shalt Have Conflict on Every Page. First page, no conflict. Not even in the first scene, and very little that matters
No, I haven’t started the One-Pass Revision thingy yet. Partly because I’m a coward, but mostly because I need to clear the decks. So I did some housework, gave the dog a haircut, etcetera. I’m going to do it. I’m not going to stop in the middle because I let everything get out of hand
So the wonderful Wonderer posted a link to Holly Lisle’s One-Pass Revision article in the Spork Room. (don’t ask) It’s here: Holly Lisle This looks–hard as hell. It also looks like one heck of a way to knock a decent novel into “pretty darn good” in a very short time. I’m thinking I might try
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