monday quickies

[jlundberg]

Holly Lisle has an amazing amount of writing advice at her website, and I've been click-click-clicking away. There's the typical stuff for beginners, but she also has articles on things like "One-Pass Manuscript Revision" and "Editor Etiquette." I can't believe I haven't found this before.

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[rosefox]

I like Lisle's writing advice a lot. I wish she followed it more.

[jlundberg]

I haven't actually read her fiction. What advice does she not follow?

[rosefox]

She went into extensive discussion of POV in her how-to for new writers and then pretty much completely ignored it when writing her novel Talyn. To quote my review:

Two-time Campbell Award-finalist Lisle (Midnight Rain) tries to show she can handle shifts between first- and third-person in her latest fantasy, but the mental channel-flipping only serves to distract from an otherwise extremely well-written story. ...Anyone who can get past "I thought about him" suddenly turning into "he thought about her" in the space of a paragraph and the plot-spoiling that inevitably stems from head-hopping will likely be captivated by this stern and stirring treatise on the dangers of enforced peace and the virtues of paranoid preparation for the worst.

Mind you, I quite liked the book. I just repeatedly got thrown for a loop by the perspective changes.

[jlundberg]

Ah.