by Katherine Villyard | Feb 25, 2008 | writing mysticism
One NaNoWriMo novel, one incomplete screenplay, and a novel-in-progress with outlines and I suddenly no longer want to work without them. I suppose this is a good thing, since writing without is sometimes a big timesink, but I still feel like an outline junkie....
by Katherine Villyard | Feb 22, 2008 | geekiness, reading
Question: Do free ebooks help or hurt paper book sales? Tor is offering free ebooks if you sign up with their newsletter here. They offer a different one each week–this week is Scalzi’s Old Man’s War. (If you want it and missed it, ask a...
by Katherine Villyard | Feb 21, 2008 | cats, novels, picspam
I’ve been writing a lot. Well. Last weekend I was sick. Let us not speak of it. My action chapter is still kicking my butt, because, well, it’s action. It’ll be okay, and the next chapter should have fun stuff in it. Well, there was something fun...
by Katherine Villyard | Feb 13, 2008 | writing mysticism, writing stats
My first drafts of action chapters are about 500-1000 words. This is pitiful, and caused my outline spreadsheet to say my novel would come in short. So I sighed, and turned sentences into paragraphs. It’s now about 2000 words, which is still too short, but at...
by Katherine Villyard | Feb 12, 2008 | novels
Action scenes are hard. Let’s do math instead!
by Katherine Villyard | Feb 9, 2008 | life, the universe, and everything
This anthology contains several stories I really love, including “Big Sister/Little Sister,” “Captive Girl,” and “The Last Stand of the Elephant Man.” I’m sure I’ll love the others just as much. Jennifer Pelland is made...
by Katherine Villyard | Feb 6, 2008 | writing stats
Current wordcount: 25,792 Goal wordcount: 80,000 Guesstimated final wordcount: 81,203 Percent of goal done: 32.24% Percent of guesstimate done: 31.76% At this rate, I’ll reach my goal on: 5/12/08 At this rate, I’ll finish my first draft on:...
by Katherine Villyard | Feb 4, 2008 | novels
I’m currently working on chapter seven. My writer’s group just critiqued chapters five and six. I think I need to write faster.
by Katherine Villyard | Feb 1, 2008 | geekiness
I found a missing angle bracket in the comment table template that was conflating the “not spam” and “empty” buttons on the spam comment listing on MT 4.1. Line 24 of comment_table.tmpl should read: title="<__trans phrase="Report...