by Katherine Villyard | Nov 25, 2006 | nanowrimo
42,093 / 50,000 : 84.2% I have NaNoWriMo fatigue. I’m ready for this to be over. The question is whether I want to try to marathon extra words or just slow and steady finish the last 8,000 words over the next four days. We’ll see how I feel tomorrow, but I...
by Katherine Villyard | Nov 19, 2006 | cats, nanowrimo
I’m at 33,717 words, but I also have a sick kitty. She’s our current Queen Kitty, and the other cats are worried. I completely blew off yesterday, and am having trouble talking myself into doing it today. I’ve been trying to do 2,000 words a day;...
by Katherine Villyard | Nov 4, 2006 | nanowrimo
NaNoWriMo proceeds apace. Thus far the story is coming out quick and sketchy, like a gesture drawing. It’s like my muse feels rushed and is telling the story as fast as she can, and I have to hurry to get down a bare skeleton of mostly dialog just to keep up. I...
by Katherine Villyard | Nov 3, 2006 | sale
“Corporate Oversight” will appear in the December issue of The Fifth Di….
by Katherine Villyard | Oct 21, 2006 | cons
I’ve officially decided to go to WisCon next year, and have bought a ticket. Broad Universe usually has a rapid-fire reading at WisCon. If they do again, I’ll be there, reading something. I have until May to decide what, but if the reading was tomorrow it...
by Katherine Villyard | Oct 18, 2006 | short fiction
The story I’m working on now? It feels so much like science fiction to write, but I’m pretty sure it reads as fantasy. It’s an alternate history story where something supernatural happens, and I can’t get over how much it feels like science...
by Katherine Villyard | Oct 17, 2006 | short fiction
I wrote 818 words of the story that needed research tonight, and in my opinion, it’s fantasy. My brain suddenly gave me a main character and started spitting out words. There’s even a plot, which surprised me because I wasn’t sure what it was until I...
by Katherine Villyard | Oct 15, 2006 | cons
I’m thiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiis close to talking myself into going. Last time was much fun, and I was sad to not go since. And any excuse to see Jen is of the good. What may push me over the edge is the Broad Universe rapid-fire reading and the...
by Katherine Villyard | Oct 8, 2006 | nanowrimo
I’m outlining like the guy with the chalk at a kool-aid party. I’m anxious about the NaNoWriMo thing and want to be prepared. I mean, really, really, hard-core serious prepared. Right now I’m doing the infamous snowflake that They [TM] tout on the...
by Katherine Villyard | Sep 26, 2006 | nanowrimo
I’m planning to do NaNoWriMo this year, and thus far I really think it’s going to help. I’m trying to outline extensively, and I tried to plug Lizardfic the novel into an outline template I found online and there were questions there I couldn’t...