by Katherine Villyard | Apr 23, 2007 | short fiction
In honor of Jo Walton’s International Pixel-Stained Technopeasant Day, I give you Corporate Oversight. Enjoy! (The nifty graphic is by John Scalzi.)
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 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 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...
by Katherine Villyard | Feb 11, 2007 | short fiction
I think I just wrote 423 words of flash fic. That would certainly make up for the 10,231 word story (and still growing) I did last month. Speaking of the hurricane story, I don’t think it’s ready for critique yet. There are still a couple of things I need...
by Katherine Villyard | Feb 3, 2007 | novels, scripts, selling fiction, short fiction
My Hollywood Creative Directory is on its way. I received one of my two first script queries back in the mail as undeliverable. D’oh! Short fiction markets are all over the Internet, but this is not the case for the places I want to send scripts. (The online...
by Katherine Villyard | Jan 28, 2007 | short fiction
The first draft clocks in at 10,113 words, and it’s likely to expand in revision. For one thing, I think the end is a little abrupt (in fact, I may not be done after all), and for another, I don’t think there’s enough tech, and there are characters...
by Katherine Villyard | Jan 8, 2007 | short fiction, writing mysticism
1533 words written today, for a total of 4582. That’s almost NaNoWriMo productive. Note to self: Distraction=Evil.
by Katherine Villyard | Jan 7, 2007 | short fiction, writing mysticism
I’m not sure what’s up with the story, but it’s at 3049 words and just doesn’t want to move at all. Maybe this is the equivalent of the NaNoWriMo week two, and I should try to plow forward. Maybe I should set an arbitrary wordcount and do it...