🎵 It’s the most wonderful time of the year… 🎶 No, not Christmas—NaNoWriMo! Come November 1st, writers all over the world will bend to their keyboards in an attempt to conjure 50,000 words out of thin air before midnight on …
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One of our local NaNoWriMo coordinators gave our Facebook group a silly prompt to warm up for NaNo prep season. It was fun to stretch those flash fiction muscles a bit. Prompt and my contribution are below: “Hey NaNo-ites, how …
Continue readingUnpopular Jane Austen Opinions
After spotting the question on someone’s Twitter stream, I posed it to my Facebook friends. “What is your unpopular opinion about Jane Austen’s books?” Here are some of mine: * Fanny Price is upright, admirable, and praiseworthy. She is also …
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I was recently invited to participate in a story swap exercise with a Twitch streamer I follow, ScottWritesStuff. The exercise works like this: the viewers vote on a sentence to be used as the first sentence of the story. Then …
Continue readingA Diversion from Writing: More Writing!
The first draft of The Cat Price marches on, and it grows progressively more entertaining (making me oh-so-aware of the massive edits the first few chapters are going to need to bring them up to snuff!) Meanwhile, I was delightfully …
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I’m currently finishing up the first draft of The Cat Price, a middle grades fantasy novel about an unseen world, the meaning of friendship, and the power of belief. I started this project last November as a participant in National …
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My name is Katrina, and this is my first blog post on my personal website, a sample text with which to test out my site design. No one’s ever going to read it, so I suppose I can write whatever …
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