by Katherine Villyard | Oct 17, 2007 | novels
I’m rereading Lizardfic and the outline materials associated with it, because I’ve been thinking that it may be time to work on this one again. You may or may not recall that this was the short story that turned into a novel that turned into me rewriting...
by Katherine Villyard | Aug 18, 2007 | novels
Summaries are hard. Let’s do math rebuild a RAID array instead!
by Katherine Villyard | Jul 7, 2007 | nanowrimo, novels, writing mysticism
I’m running the NaNovel through critique group right now, and even though I made several passes through it and tried to flesh it out, it’s still kind of rushed. It used to feel very much like… if you’ve ever heard Jaws, the screenreading...
by Katherine Villyard | Mar 3, 2007 | novels
Editing is still more fun than drafting. What do you know? Whee, edits! Well, obviously, there’s going to be the point where I go blind. Hopefully that won’t happen for awhile, since I didn’t look at it for three months. Some observations: The...
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 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 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 | Dec 31, 2006 | life, the universe, and everything, nanowrimo, novels, scripts, short fiction
Yes, it’s the obligatory New Year’s resolutions post! I’m sure you can hardly wash. Yay! Write more. I did poorly with the short story deadlines, but maybe they were too short. One short story a month, excepting March, June, and November, which...
by Katherine Villyard | Dec 30, 2006 | novels, scripts, selling fiction, short fiction, writing stats
Short stories completed: 1 Scripts completed: 1 Novel first drafts completed: 1 Short stories that somehow morphed into novels-in-progess: 2 Short stories that were pulled from circulation and completely rewritten: 1 Short story submissions: 32 Short story rejections:...
by Katherine Villyard | Nov 27, 2006 | nanowrimo, novels
I think it needs to expand out, like an accordian. Later. I reread part of the beginning. It’s better than I remembered. It’s… funny. I’m still a couple of rewrites from the decision of whether I want to ‘fess up to it in public,...