by Katherine Villyard | Mar 11, 2007 | life, the universe, and everything
Things I’ve learned while my sister is in town: Some vague concept of how fencing is scored. The Georgia Aquarium is cool. I don’t like Lipton tea. I think I’ll stick with Tazo. It’s really hard to edit after walking around for several hours....
by Katherine Villyard | Mar 3, 2007 | novels
Editing is still more fun than drafting. What do you know? Whee, edits! Well, obviously, there’s going to be the point where I go blind. Hopefully that won’t happen for awhile, since I didn’t look at it for three months. Some observations: The...
by Katherine Villyard | Mar 1, 2007 | writing stats
Jen does this every month. I figured it’d be fun. Story sales in February: 0 Story submissions in February: 7 Story rejections in February: 6 Script queries in February: 11 Script requests in February: 0 Script rejections in February: 0 Script contest entries in...
by Katherine Villyard | Mar 1, 2007 | novels, short fiction
Jen has a “post the first line of five works in progress” meme. What the hell, I’ll play, although I don’t really have five things in progress at the moment. I’ll include recent stuff. The Wasicu towers still exist, rising up out of the...
by Katherine Villyard | Feb 27, 2007 | nanowrimo, scripts
NaNoEdMo starts in two days. So why am I excited about Script Frenzy instead? I used to love editing and agonize over first drafts. I think NaNoWriMo cured me of the agonizing, so maybe that’s part of it. I have no idea what I’m going to do for Script...
by Katherine Villyard | Feb 26, 2007 | writing mysticism
From Jennifer Pelland, a discussion on the importance of having a writing cheerleader. I actually tried to do that with NaNoWriMo on a sikrit friends-only LJ, but no one commented, alas. Maybe I should have mentioned that was my plan. What, my friends aren’t all...
by Katherine Villyard | Feb 25, 2007 | short fiction
I just dropped the hurricane story into the Critters queue. Word count: 10,946. It’ll probably grow after Critters is done with it. I also put a warning on the story for “content that may offend some readers and some *@(#&@% swearing.”...
by Katherine Villyard | Feb 25, 2007 | selling fiction
So, hypothetically speaking, you know, I have this friend… Okay, no, I don’t have this friend. Suppose I have this story, and my friend said it sucked last July, and I’d had it critiqued at a writing workshop in September and rewritten it so much...
by Katherine Villyard | Feb 21, 2007 | short fiction
The hurricane story is approaching a condition where it’s ready for Critters. It may be ready now, but Brian said he’d peek at it and tell me what he thought of the changes. It behooves me to dawdle, because it’ll take about a month to get through...
by Katherine Villyard | Feb 19, 2007 | nanowrimo, novels, short fiction
My online critique group is oddly silent about my under 500 word flash fic. Perhaps they’re struck dumb by its brilliance. Or its badness. Heh. For NaNoWriMo this year, I’m considering going Greek. I have an idea I’ve been kicking around for...