http://www.katherinemankiller.com Write. Submit. Resubmit until sold. Lather. Rinse. Repeat. Tue, 08 Dec 2009 06:41:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.katherinemankiller.com/2009/12/07/um_wow/#comment-188 Julie Tue, 08 Dec 2009 06:41:57 +0000 http://testbed.katherinemankiller.com/?p=381#comment-188 Awesome!! Gluck!! Awesome!! Gluck!!

]]> http://www.katherinemankiller.com/2009/02/07/writers_group_a/#comment-185 Kyle Sat, 15 Aug 2009 09:05:23 +0000 http://testbed.katherinemankiller.com/?p=362#comment-185 Hey...I'm new to Atlanta and I'm trying to find a horror friendly critique group. I've had three short stories published and two more to be published in the next six months. I almost fell out of my chair laughing about your mirror comment and totally understand where you're coming from. With that said, I'm looking for a group to join and would like to know if your group is still meeting on a regular basis? I'd like to get some more information on your group if possible. I can be reached at hksteele@comcast.net Thanks, Kyle Hey…I’m new to Atlanta and I’m trying to find a horror friendly critique group. I’ve had three short stories published and two more to be published in the next six months. I almost fell out of my chair laughing about your mirror comment and totally understand where you’re coming from. With that said, I’m looking for a group to join and would like to know if your group is still meeting on a regular basis? I’d like to get some more information on your group if possible. I can be reached at hksteele@comcast.net
Thanks,
Kyle

]]> http://www.katherinemankiller.com/2009/02/16/yay_in_the_wate/#comment-187 k.mankiller Tue, 24 Feb 2009 20:21:48 +0000 http://testbed.katherinemankiller.com/?p=364#comment-187 Me, too! Yay! Me, too! Yay!

]]> http://www.katherinemankiller.com/2009/02/16/yay_in_the_wate/#comment-186 Marshall Payne Tue, 24 Feb 2009 18:48:16 +0000 http://testbed.katherinemankiller.com/?p=364#comment-186 Congrats! Got my copies in the mail today. :-) Congrats! Got my copies in the mail today.

]]> http://www.katherinemankiller.com/2009/02/07/writers_group_a/#comment-184 k.mankiller Sat, 07 Feb 2009 17:26:38 +0000 http://testbed.katherinemankiller.com/?p=362#comment-184 That's a really good idea, Jen! Thank you! That’s a really good idea, Jen! Thank you!

]]> http://www.katherinemankiller.com/2009/02/07/writers_group_a/#comment-183 Jennifer Pelland Sat, 07 Feb 2009 17:12:56 +0000 http://testbed.katherinemankiller.com/?p=362#comment-183 My group currently grows through personal recommendations. It sounds like you folks don't have that option, otherwise you would have exercised it. Maybe a post to Broad Universe? That's how I started my group. That, plus by networking at WisCon. My group currently grows through personal recommendations. It sounds like you folks don’t have that option, otherwise you would have exercised it. Maybe a post to Broad Universe? That’s how I started my group. That, plus by networking at WisCon.

]]> http://www.katherinemankiller.com/2009/02/07/writers_group_a/#comment-182 k.mankiller Sat, 07 Feb 2009 16:27:34 +0000 http://testbed.katherinemankiller.com/?p=362#comment-182 Heh. It's also more what a person might actually think when confronted with a mirror, IMHO. Heh. It’s also more what a person might actually think when confronted with a mirror, IMHO.

]]> http://www.katherinemankiller.com/2009/02/07/writers_group_a/#comment-181 Another Voice in the Cacophony Sat, 07 Feb 2009 15:35:25 +0000 http://testbed.katherinemankiller.com/?p=362#comment-181 Looking in a mirror and thinking, "Oh, shit, is that a coffee stain on my shirt?" would actually be a nice bit of characterization. As opposed to, "She was about 5'6, with brown hair and..." Looking in a mirror and thinking, “Oh, shit, is that a coffee stain on my shirt?” would actually be a nice bit of characterization. As opposed to, “She was about 5’6, with brown hair and…”

]]> http://www.katherinemankiller.com/2009/02/01/coming_soon/#comment-180 Another Voice in the Cacophony Sat, 07 Feb 2009 15:33:03 +0000 http://testbed.katherinemankiller.com/?p=361#comment-180 Woohoo! Woohoo!

]]> http://www.katherinemankiller.com/2008/12/28/brainstorming_t/#comment-179 Katherine Mankiller Mon, 29 Dec 2008 13:55:44 +0000 http://testbed.katherinemankiller.com/?p=355#comment-179 I'm pretty sure I have the reporter character. She's a cute, short redhead with a southern accent and food allergies. The thing is, I need to completely redo the idea of the AI. In the original, the programmer named her after his dead sister, which I like, but a lot of the rest of her is super-cheesy. There's an evil government conspiracy and aliens and I don't think I want to do aliens any more because it's too X-Files-y. That, and I started writing without really understanding what the AI is and what it was programmed to do that was worth covering up. Yeah, the old plot was cheese soup. ;) X-Files-y cheese soup, but instead of Mulder and Scully we had the cute redheaded reporter and the tall African-American photographer who was going to art school when he wasn't fighting government conspiracies with his camera. I’m pretty sure I have the reporter character. She’s a cute, short redhead with a southern accent and food allergies.
The thing is, I need to completely redo the idea of the AI. In the original, the programmer named her after his dead sister, which I like, but a lot of the rest of her is super-cheesy. There’s an evil government conspiracy and aliens and I don’t think I want to do aliens any more because it’s too X-Files-y. That, and I started writing without really understanding what the AI is and what it was programmed to do that was worth covering up.
Yeah, the old plot was cheese soup. X-Files-y cheese soup, but instead of Mulder and Scully we had the cute redheaded reporter and the tall African-American photographer who was going to art school when he wasn’t fighting government conspiracies with his camera.

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