by Katherine Villyard | Nov 27, 2008 | life, the universe, and everything
Happy Dead Bird Day to those of you who eat dead bird, and happy Tofurkey day to the rest of us. Today is a very special day in the US; a harvest festival where we celebrate gluttony. (Some families celebrate all seven of the deadly sins, but we’re slothful...
by Katherine Villyard | Nov 24, 2008 | procrastination
Email migration hell has been over for a couple of months, and yet I’m not writing every day. I did get a galley of a story and am wandering over from time to time to see if my story’s out yet, but other than that… I need to do something about that....
by Katherine Villyard | Sep 28, 2008 | life, the universe, and everything
Still working too much. Still stressed. Reduced to posting amusing quotes: “English is the result of Norman men-at-arms attempting to pick up Saxon barmaids and is no more legitimate than any of the other results.” – H. Beam Piper The writing...
by Katherine Villyard | Sep 1, 2008 | cons, reading
I work too much. I need to cut that out. Anyway, I’m back from Dragoncon and have a possible short story idea or two, which is good because I’ve sold almost all of my short stories and only have two in circulation! I also attended a steampunk panel, which...
by Katherine Villyard | Jun 22, 2008 | selling fiction
Has anyone heard from the Indian Country anthology? I queried on the 15th.
by Katherine Villyard | Jun 3, 2008 | writing stats
According to the spreadsheet of doom, it’s been nineteen days since I last wrote. I promptly threw out my last scene, too, so the word count is less. (61,687.) Did I mention that we were doing an email migration? I think I know what I’m going to do for the...
by Katherine Villyard | May 31, 2008 | cons, novels
Where was I before I got sucked into email migration hell? Oh, yeah. Wiscon. Why is the con over again? My reading went really well. In fact, my favorite author read right before me–she read an excerpt from an upcoming book that I’M SO EXCITED...
by Katherine Villyard | May 17, 2008 | cons
I’m trying to cut “Grandfather Paradox” into something that will fit into five minutes but still make some form of narrative sense. It’s hard. Last year I read “The Last Wasicu,” and just started at the beginning and kept reading...
by Katherine Villyard | May 8, 2008 | novels
I just lopped 4555 words off Lizardfic, which dropped me back down below 60,000 words. (59,746.) To quote Spock in “Devil in the Dark,” “PAAAAAAAAAAAAAIN!!!!” I have short stories in circulation that are shorter than 4555 words. I may be able...
by Katherine Villyard | May 7, 2008 | novels, writing mysticism
My novel has changed during the course of writing, which is okay. And I’ve updated the outline to reflect the changes. Sounds okay, right? Only there’s a bit of a problem. My main POV character is away from all the action for several scenes. Ack!...