Holly Lisle

Anybody read any of her books? I think she is amazing - the most inspirational novelist I have read about.

Anyone who hasn't done so - check her out! She rules!

http://hollylisle.com/

willietheshakes said:

Wait - more inspirational than Tolkien?!?!?!?

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To me, as a writer, she is much more inspirational than any writer I have ever come across. I can only admire Tolkien, I can't wish to ever write like him or possess his imagination or vocabulary. But Holly is someone who I can relate to and understand. She's very special.

Just check out her free download "Mugging the Muse." I have never read anything that's so inspring and so wonderful. In my opinion, it pisses all over Stephen King's "On Writing."

Download it and see for yourself. Tell me what you think.

http://hollylisle.com/downloads.html

lividseras said:

Yes! She is very inspiring. I personally like this passage on holly lisles website.

"If writing is your hunger and your thirst, and if you choose not to follow your dream because you're afraid, you'll pay a price for that, too---you'll pay with the progressive deadening of your soul, as time and your own disillusionment with yourself eat away at who you are. One day you'll wake up and discover that the part of yourself that knew how to dream---and how to fly---has died, and that you are forever after bound to the ground, with only the memory that you once had wings.

Every dreamer pays a price. But so does everyone who fears to dream."

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This is excellent. I read it too. I love Holly, I really do. I'm gonna buy all her novels and I might do her writing classes too. Hmmm...

HConn said:

She does give good advice, if you can stomach some of the "oppressed white people" crap and climate change denialism she writes. She may offer good advice, but she's a crank, too, and I try to avoid cranks.

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I think you're out of line saying that about Holly Lisle, especially when you consider evereything she does for others. But hey, I'm not trying to tell you to take it back or anything.

And being a white person who is most certainly "oppressed" living in a multi-cultural hell hole like Tower Hamlets in London, where white people are always the victims of interacial violence, I can relate to everything she says. Holly's the real deal, a symbolic representation of human courage. She's the real article.