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The Motivational Spreadsheet of Doom
Hi, my name is Katherine and I'm a metrics junkie. I have an outline spreadsheet based on the Snowflake method to which I've added wordcount secret sauce formulas. I downloaded it for NaNoWriMo many years ago. I then have a tab that's nothing but date, wordcount,...
You and Your Resume
I should really call this post, "Everything I ever learned about job hunting I learned from writing," even though that's not really true. However, there are, in fact, writing links in here. (I'm a published short fiction author under a pseudonym.) [Note: I have a...
Fitting it all in.
Yes, it's another post on the continuing saga. New job. New job means new schedule. New schedule means figuring out how to work all the other, non-job things I want to do into my life. Yeah. It's a process. First up: running. Since I'm off the evil early morning...
SQL Saturday #111
As always, I had an awesome time at SQL Saturday. I heard at least two people say that the SQL community is full of genuinely nice people, and it certainly seems to be true. I followed a bunch of new people on Twitter and won a Kindle Fire! (By the way, if you're a...
Broad Universe Rapid-Fire Reading
I'll be reading at WisCON again this year! May 26, 1pm, Conference 2, Concourse Hotel, Madison, Wisconsin. A chance to meet the writers and hear the work of some of the most exciting new talent in our genres. The readers of Broad Universe will drop you into their...
As promised…
I said that all would be revealed in the fullness of time. I have a new job. One with a less heinous commute. Which means, of course, that it's time to get back on the writing horse. And the running horse, because working 40 hours a week + 4 hours a day commuting...
Immortal Gifts invites readers to re-evaluate the meanings of things such as life, death, freedom, hate and love from the first page. Katherine Villyard manages to capture some of the most poignant questions we ask ourselves as we go through our individual lives. Is it worth being able to live forever if, in the end, we’ll lose the ones we love to mortality? Is Death really the ultimate enemy to life, or is death just life’s misunderstood old friend? To stop hate, do we need to restrict our freedoms? This book makes readers ask and answer tough questions not only about the characters and plotline, but about their own beliefs, understandings, and dreams.