33503 words! Woot! Finished it last night! I’m mean there are some HUGE plot holes and the fights are really, really lame, but the basic plot is written! The rest of July and August is dedicated to pushing Uncommon Animals. This week I’ll clean (metaphoric) house. I changed my cover for the book because it […]
I’m still not done with the Hedge Doctor story, though I will be by tonight. I have just one last confrontation to write and then the wrap up. Maybe another two thousand words. Which would make this the shortest of the three, for now, and the only one to finish UNDER 10k. *shrugs* These things […]
When I went to bed last night, I had 30, 100 words down. That’s 100 over my goal. Unfortunately, I still haven’t finished the story. Getting closer though. Part of the problem is that I need to up the danger on the final monster and don’t have a clue how I want to that yet. […]
I haven’t finished my Nano… *hangs head.* I want to, but it’s an action sequence… and a LONG one. Even wore, I can see the plot holes that run over the three pieces. They are to be expected. I’ve banged this bad boy out over three weeks with no editing. Normally, I’d just put off […]
That’s the number of words I left to right to hit my Nanowrimo goal of 30,000 words. Unfortunately, I have about 6,000 more words until the story ends. Still, it feels good to be this close to done. It feels amazing to know that when I finish this story, I’ll have a year’s worth of publishing […]
Usually, I like to stick to my own writing. But occasionally, something from the outside world rocks the bubble that is my writing life. Earlier this week, Marvel announced that Thor is now a woman in the comics. And I found myself thinking about it and getting mad… “Kate, this is your logical side. You don’t […]
I finished the second Jeff story yesterday. I’m two-thirds of the way done, and the final stretch is in sight. So I took my kids to the pool and then napped the rest of the day. Today, I’ll start to push myself and see if I can can’t get this bad boy written in a week. […]
I hate them. Well, I hate writing them. Which is odd, given my choice of genre. The truth is that I’m terrified of repeating myself, and I have a lot of fight scenes. So much like my introductions and explanations, I spend a lot of time rereading my fight scenes and making sure that I’m […]
So yesterday, a few of my friends on my favorite critique site begged to read the first Jeff story. I hemmed and hawed, but I’ve been really digging the story, so I posted the first part, and made sure to note in the author’s comments section that it was a super rough, and I was […]
I’m pretty sure that I have ADD. I know, I know, self-diagnosis is THE most obnoxious thing ever, but my oldest has been professionally diagnosed with ADHD, and my parents often chuckle when I tell them stories about his day, and usually find a similar story about me. So I think I’m on safe ground […]
Words That Burn Like Fire 