NEWSLETTER & COURSES

• Holly's Writing Updates
• The Plot Mini-Course
• Creating "Royalty" Income
• How to Think Sideways
• NEW! The Polls

FAQs

• How to Write
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• Miscellaneous Writing
• HollyLisle.com
• The BIG THREE
• Misconceptions

CHAPTERS

• Create A Language Clinic

FEATURE STORIES

• Staying Alive
• Why I Left FM
• Scam-Spotting
• On Community
• Could vs. Should
• Finding Silence
• Courage
• Say What You Mean
• Book Is Not Baby
• Writing Education
• Busman's Holiday
• Who WON'T Make It
• Finding Your Themes
• Impossible Goodness
• Writers' Quiz
• Saving the World

WRITING LIFE

• Middles
• Writing Changes Life
• Learning Dvorak
• Dvorak 3 Months Later
• Exceeding Our Grasp
• One Good Enemy
• Writer's Toolbox
• Ideas
• Writers' Block I
• Writers' Block II
• Experience
• Your Writing Voice
• Using Your Life

HOW TO'S

• Quit Your Day Job
• Format a Manuscript
• Start a Novel
• Create a Character
• Finish A Novel
• Revise A Novel
• Collaborate
• Design a Career
• Steal Ideas
• Fantasy
• SF Worldbuilding
• Time & First Person

PROFESSIONALISM

• Writers' Groups
• Work With Editors
• About Literary Agents
• Query an Agent

WORKSHOPS

• Creating Conflict
• Novel Pre-Writing
• Set Writing Goals
• Character Creation
• Dialogue
• Maps
• Scene Creation
• Timed Writing
• Worldbuilding
• Pacing Scenes
• Plot Outline
• Fast Plotting
• Visualization
• Characterization
• Using Strangeness
• Honing Your Talent
• Write Suckitudinously
• Evaluate Your Work
• Description
• One-Pass Revision
• Revising Vincalis

COMMUNITY

• Writers' Community

CONTACT

• Contact

Answers to Persistent Misconceptions

Answer to Misconception #1: I don't have a staff. I don't have a helper. I don't have a webmaster. I don't have anyone who reads my mail. I'm it. I do read all my mail, but I don't answer everything. I can't.

Answer to Misconception #2: Yes, I really have left the Forward Motion Community permanently. It now belongs to one of my best friends in the world, Lazette Gifford, who is doing a brilliant job of running it. It is an active, growing community, it's free, and I recommend it with my whole heart, but I had to choose other priorities, and I'm not there anymore.

Answer to Misconception #3: I really mean it when I say I'm not answering writing questions anymore. At the moment I'm also not taking e-mail. I switched everything over to a guestbook due to massive surprise deadline crunches, but that, too, required more attention than I could afford. At the moment, you can reach me via snail mail, by using the addresses you'll find in the front of current releases from any of my current publishers (Eos, Time-Warner, NAL).

Answer to Misconception #4: I'm not retiring. I'm working on books and my family full-time. I am retiring from online activity. I'll be adding new things here from time to time -- mostly chapters and cover art, but the occasional writing article too. But no weblog, no community, no classes, no massive site overhauls.

I do appreciate the concern of those of you who have been worried, but I'm in good health, I'm working hard, and everything is okay. Be well. Be happy. Never give up on your dreams.

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