Category: Blog
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On Writing: Handling Criticism
Recently, I asked a friend to take a look at a poem I had written. I don’t write poetry very often (I average two a year), but I was pretty proud of this one. So proud I thought I might try to submit it somewhere, and I’ve submitted exactly one thing in the last two…
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On Writing: How’s NaNoWriMo Going for You?
Today marks the halfway point of National Novel Writing Month, otherwise known as NaNoWriMo. By now, some of you are patting yourselves on the back in between gulps of your fourth cup of room-temperature coffee and going, “By George, I think I’ve got this!” Others of you are re-calculating just how many thousands of words a day…
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On Writing: A Gift to Your Future Self
When I sat down to write something for this blog, I had to flip through page after page of my daughter’s doodles to search for a clean sheet. (I’m organized enough to pre-plan my blog posts, but not organized enough to keep clean paper on my desk.) I was nearing the end and had almost…
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On Writing: NaNoWriMo
Today marks the start of National Novel Writing Month, otherwise known as NaNoWriMo. If you’re unfamiliar with this event, it’s a challenge to writers to write 50,000 words by the end of November 30. This equates to 1,667 words per day, or 2 to 3 hours of actual writing, watered down by poor word choices, weak plots, and clichéd characters,…
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On Writing: The Not-Knowing
As we find ourselves in the spookiest time of the year, I, like many of you, probably, have been reading a lot of scary stories. My favorite kind are the ones that make me feel off-balance the whole way through, before… BAM! …revealing the sinister truth at the very end. The not knowing is what terrifies me. What…
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Things I’ve Written While Half-Asleep, Lonely, and Bored at Writing Conferences
~Breakfast tacos so good, people don’t care they’re being sold at a gas station ~Falling asleep again ~Wish I had coffee and a nap ~Asleep again. And again! A MILLION TIMES! ~A house covered in coke tabs. ~New Braunfels is an old German town settled on the San Marcos River. Population about 35,000. Gets very…
Kate the Writer 