Hello! How’ve you been? Okay, enough with the pleasantries. I’m about to do something completely shameless. http://figment.com/books/607920-Road-Trip-With-The-Doctor That is a story that I have posted on Figment. It’s a story for a Doctor Who fan fiction contest. I’m sure you can see where this is going, especially if you’re on Figment. Yes, I am asking for […]
When left to my own devices (meaning, NOT NaNoWriMo), my writing process is a little weird. Yesterday I dug out a partial rewrite that I did during Camp NaNoWriMo of last year. I remember stopping half way through because I felt that if I wrote another word I was going to vomit. (I actually […]
http://academy.interlochen.org/ http://camp.interlochen.org/ …I would say ’nuff said, but that would imply that you clicked on the links. Interlochen Arts Academy High School. A boarding high school. That focuses on art, music, acting, dancing, and, yes, writing. Interlochen Summer Arts Camp. A three-week long camp that focuses on the same things. I don’t know about […]
Free verse is probably the easiest form of poetry. You can write lines of any length about anything and they don’t have to have rhyme or rhythm. And yet, I struggle. I do much better when things do need to have rhyme and rhythm. Over my spring break I forced myself to write free verse poetry. If I […]
You need to have plot to write a good story. You really, really do. If there’s a fiction book out there with no plot and it gets read, prove me wrong. But I think I’m right. Plot is something a novel has to have. Until recently, I thought all writers knew what plot was and […]
Hi guys! I never thought I’d have the guts to do this to you guys, but here’s to proving myself wrong! I don’t have very long to blog right now, so this is going to be a low-quality post. I know. Katie and low-quality? They just don’t go together. Believe it or not, before I […]
I don’t spend money. I just don’t. Whenever I get money for my birthday I put it in my savings account and let it gather interest. I think in all of my years of having that savings account, I’ve earned a bit more than a dollar, but hey, it’s money. I’ve never taken any of […]
How are you guys? I’m good. I hope you are to. Today I finished Spilling Ink, and I started the Productive Writer. So far, I love this book. It’s not about how to write, it’s about how to write more, create a writing schedule, get organized, set goals (and reach them), and a whole bunch […]
Hi, readers! I have some good news and some bad news to share with you. The bad news is that someday you are going to die. The good news is that I’m reading books on writing! This is good news for me as well as you because I’m going to be sharing what I learn […]
It’s official, writing is my life. By some definitions, this means I have no life. By others it means I have the best life one could ask for. I prefer the latter choice. There are five parts to my life: thinking about writing, reading about writing, researching about writing, reading, and actually writing. Then there […]
The Pen is Mightier 