by Katherine Villyard | Aug 18, 2007 | novels
Summaries are hard. Let’s do math rebuild a RAID array instead!
by Katherine Villyard | Aug 10, 2007 | reading
I think most of the people who regularly read this blog have already read this series, but for those of you who haven’t…I love these books to complete irrational distraction, and if you haven’t read them, you should! I should probably tell you to...
by Katherine Villyard | Jul 26, 2007 | writing mysticism
Every now and then I go out to someone’s author blog or something, and they have a post like, “I’m a writer because when I write I’m GOD. I create entire universes and control everything in them. All of creation and destruction lie in my hands!...
by Katherine Villyard | Jul 7, 2007 | nanowrimo, novels, writing mysticism
I’m running the NaNovel through critique group right now, and even though I made several passes through it and tried to flesh it out, it’s still kind of rushed. It used to feel very much like… if you’ve ever heard Jaws, the screenreading...
by Katherine Villyard | Jul 3, 2007 | scripts
Man, ScriptFrenzy was a bust. Final wordcount: 3407. Behold my shame. Then again, I haven’t had two days off in a row in over a month, so… yeah. I hereby rename the project “ScriptSloth,” and I’ll keep working on it. Other projects...
by Katherine Villyard | Jun 8, 2007 | scripts
I don’t think there’s any way I’m going to be able to do Script Frenzy. I’m just going to be putting in too much overtime this month. I’ll keep working on the script, but I’m officially giving myself permission to not...
by Katherine Villyard | Jun 3, 2007 | scripts
My creepy government conspiracy Script Frenzy script is coming out humor. Maybe it’ll get creepy later. Maybe it’s meant to be funny. If not, oops. It’s also going slowly, which is bad, because I’m supposed to write 20,000 words in June. And I...
by Katherine Villyard | May 27, 2007 | cons
The Broad Universe Rapid Fire Reading went well. I read seven minutes of “The Last Wasicu.” I expected to be more nervous, but it was oddly non-terrifying. I guess all the high school drama club paid off. I’m writing this at Jay Lake’s party,...
by Katherine Villyard | May 16, 2007 | cats, picspam
The first rule about kitty fight club? Is you don’t talk about kitty fight club!
by Katherine Villyard | May 12, 2007 | writing mysticism
If I look back over the stories I think have been the most successful and easiest to write, they have something in common. A sense of structure. Even before I wrote the first word I had some idea of the story’s structure. It’s a lot easier to write that...