Holly Lisle's Create A Plot ClinicHolly Lisle's Create A Plot Clinic (book)

Print: $19.95

You can create a novel, short story, or screenplay plot from beginning to end, even if you don't know what you want to write about yet.

• Want to write fiction but don't know where to start?
• Do you have a stack of 30-page novels that have stalled?
• Are you stuck in the vast morass of your novel's middle?
• Don't know how to figure out your ending?
• Or have you finished a first draft you don't know how to fix?

In Holly Lisle's Create A Plot Clinic, you'll learn:

• How to choose and use your structure
• How to create story ideas from twenty fun, easy tools
• How to organize your plot before you write
• How to adapt it while you write
• How to fix problem plotting as you write the book and even when you're revising it
• How to deal with late, great ideas and your stubborn Muse
• And much more

Complete course includes descriptions, demonstrations, exercises, illustrations.

Holly Lisle's Create A Character ClinicHolly Lisle's Create A Character Clinic (book)

Print: $19.95

Are you selling your fiction yet?

Editors reject most books because the characters fall flat. Full-time professional novelist Holly Lisle offers her method for creating and writing compelling fictional characters that sell to editors ... and readers.

Includes:

• What makes a character interesting (and what doesn't)
• Techniques for giving your characters compelling needs that resonate with readers
• How to use the seven critical areas of character development to prevent "cardboard characters" and address areas of your characters' lives you've never considered before
• Techniques for developing characters' individual voices
• Three ways of presenting your character, with proven techniques in each
• Fifteen deadly sins writers commit with their characters, and how you can avoid them -- or better yet, turn them to your advantage and use them to surprise, excite, and delight your readers

Holly Lisle's Create A Culture ClinicHolly Lisle's Create A Culture Clinic (book)

Print: $19.95

Create religions, philosophies, governments and lifestyles different than your own---that work together and feel real. Avoid cliches. Begin using your new culture in your writing....
All in about five hours.

WORLDBUILDING COURSE, BOOK II

My method for adding cultural depth to works set in the present, and for building cultures from the ground up in worlds of my own making. Includes:

• How to build what you need, when you need it
• How to avoid overbuilding
• Tips for using what you've built in your writing
• Examples, exercises, and worksheets
• My method for organizing and saving work--you'll be able to find what you need quickly, no matter how much you build
• Basic and advanced culture building

Non-technical and easy to use, my method will give you a usable beginning culture in about five hours, which you can expand as you work on the book, building only what you need and when you need it.

Holly Lisle's Create A Language ClinicHolly Lisle's Create A Language Clinic (book)

Print: $19.95

Learn to build real, working languages. Start using what you build in hours rather than months.

• Invent good names for your worlds, places, and characters--in 15 minutes.
• Create a complete language, or just the parts you need for your story.
• Add depth to your worldbuilding.
• Discover concepts your characters think and use that don't translate into English.
• Start changing the way you look at the way we all communicate.
• All in about 5 hours. (Though of course you can spend longer.)

For novelists, scriptwriters, gamemasters, worldbuilders, conlangers, language fans.

Hunting the Corrigan's BloodHunting the Corrigan's Blood (book)

Print: $11.95

Maybe you can go home again...
...but what if you shouldn't?

Cadence Drake, who makes a living finding lost things, regains consciousness in a spaceport locker, only to find herself bound to a corpse. Cady doesn't know the woman, nor did she know the three men who beat her and left her for dead...

...But she intends to find them.

Right after she locates the stolen spaceship she and her partner Badger are being paid a fortune to track down. But backworld zealots, smuggled drugs, missing persons, and a long line of killers keep getting in the way of their search.

A search where every new horror points home.

Reissue: First OneMoreWord Edition
First published by Baen Books, NY, Feb. 1997