HI FRIENDS.
As of last night, I've successfully brought the catalyst in Project Death down from ~18,000 words to 11,084 words!!! (This is close enough to my 10K goal that I'm okay moving onto the beast that is my "debate" period bahaha.)
My goal for today is to reread what I have, map out the scenes between the Catalyst and Break Into Two, and start rewriting!! To quote my brain goo-ey self from a couple days ago: "The progress is progressing." And I feel good about it!!
Tha...
2023-09-20 17:18:21 +0000 UTC
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"All the months are crude experiments, out of which the perfect September is made." - Virginia Woolf (or so the internet tells me, I couldn't find where she'd written this, but it's a wonderful quote so I'll take it regardless lolol)
All that to say...happy September, everyone!!!
As I missed August's Double Stream Days, I'd like to make up for them in September! We'll kick things off this week:
Double Stream Day #1 w...
2023-09-04 17:20:26 +0000 UTC
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Hi friends!
Popping up out of my introvert hidey hole (less cute than a hobbit hole, though a writer can dream) to bring you the vlog for weeks 5, 6, & 7 of my experiment!! We're nearing the end and I still haven't quiiiiite figured out what "final exam week" should look like, so if you have any ideas, or if you're "attending classes" alongside me, let me know what you're planning on!
(This vlog also saw the origin of the magic horse AND magic donkey, and I need y'all to...
2023-08-20 14:28:49 +0000 UTC
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Hi friends, hello!!
First off, can I just say that YouTube picks the absolutely BEST thumbnails? Bahaha. That moment in time perfectly encapsulates how I've felt the past few weeks.
To start, I had my first lingering migraine of the summer. (On my birthday too, a bummer!) Then I had a pre-planned mini trip with a friend, another friend unexpectedly came to town, my brother stayed over for a surprise wedding he was attending, and somehow now it's almost the end of July????
I ...
2023-07-28 15:03:56 +0000 UTC
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Hey y'all! Sorry for the late notice. I caught a bug yesterday and thought I'd be fine by today....I am not.
Hope to see you Monday at 2pm CDT!
If you still want some sprints today, the #30HWriteathon is happening today. 30 hours of sprints! Link to the upcoming one here. :)
Thanks y'all, see you Monday!!
2023-07-08 13:12:54 +0000 UTC
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HI FRIENDS.
Hope the start of your July / Camp NaNoWriMo / we're-halfway-through-the-year-freakout is going well!
First, I wanted to share Week 1 of my Summer Semester Writing Experiment! (I will have a different thumbnail when it goes live, hopefully in a day or two.)
My plan is to continue making these weekly vlogs for y'all (and for me, as accountability of sorts) but ONLY posting them here! I'll probably do a wrap-up or "lessons learned" publicl...
2023-07-05 14:49:47 +0000 UTC
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This Saturday marks the start of the second, and final, Camp NaNoWriMo of 2023 and I've just now created my project:
The project name is the exact same as one of my "classes" for my Summer Semester Writing Experiment (hereafter known as the SSWE, lol), so hopefully that means I'll actually complete it!
Since, according to the website stats, I haven't won a Camp since April of 2020 bahaha....
2023-06-26 17:46:22 +0000 UTC
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It's three days post-#24hrnovel and I feel like I've finally recovered.
(Spoiler: I did not last for 24 straight hours. I spent most of Sunday and a smidge of Monday finishing the experiment.)
But you know what?? I had a blast! This might even be my favorite version of the 24-hour writeathon yet?? (I say yet. NEVER LET ME DO THIS AGAIN. I am RETIRING. For real this time. For real for real.)
And as I've already started editing the vlog, I can already tell y'all that ...
2023-06-22 21:15:24 +0000 UTC
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OMG OMG OMG EVERYONE. It's almost time.
I feel like I've been gearing up for this #24hrnovel challenge for forever (even though I've only known about it since April). IT ALL COMES DOWN TO THIS. *cue Rocky theme song*
As you can see, graphic design is clearly my passion. More importantly, I wanted to share with y'all when I'll be streaming! I'll be kicking off the Storytelle...
2023-06-16 15:16:55 +0000 UTC
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So I tried to make a GIF of my timeline, all pretty and rainbow and complete, in order to celebrate but I'd say the quality is a liiiiiiiiiiiiiittle lower than expected bahaha.
BUT IT'S THERE. In all its fuzzy glory!
For the first time (ever?? I'm pretty sure EVER), I have a completed outline AND timeline as I enter this 2nd draft of A Closet Full of Cauldrons. I'm talking down to the smallest details. I'm talking clues. I'm talking silly one-off jokes that will come back up again...
2023-06-08 14:57:54 +0000 UTC
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I'm not sure if it's zeitgeist-y or Big Magic-y or what, but one of my favorite things is when several people have a similar idea all at the same time.
Even better when it happens here on Patreon!!
Although this idea didn't win, I'm pretty sure the conversation below the post has convinced me to give it a go! (But for even longer than a week. 👀)
2023-05-26 16:37:11 +0000 UTC
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Helloooooo writer friends. Long time, no talk, so sorry about that! I feel like I blinked and the entire past week upon coming home flashed and now I'm here and it's Monday bahaha.
Before I get too deep into business, I'd like to get a little mushy gushy for a second.
Way back in 2017, before I even knew there WAS an authortube, I didn't have any writer friends. There was a deep longing, an ache of missing. I'd had writer friends in college, and knew how valuable those relationshi...
2023-05-22 20:24:30 +0000 UTC
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Helloooooo everyone!
We're nearing the end of Camp NaNoWriMo and I am VERY EXCITED.
Partially because I've accepted my fate in not yet finishing Project Death (again, lol) and taking the pressure off has, of course, made me write in it even more. But also because I will soon be flying away to Spain 🇪🇸 for the very first time!
Before then, I wanted to fit in another 2 streams with y'all!
We have one TODAY at 6:30pm CDT. 2023-04-27 15:18:12 +0000 UTC
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Hey y'all!
Coming to you today with what could be a bit of a downer? I don't mean it to be! I'm hoping that, by sharing our concerns and internal battles, we'll feel less alone.
(Do I have a mini list going for a chatty Coffee with Kate video? Yes, yes I do. And I figured it'd be MUCH more interesting with other people's input!)
So I guess my question for you: what's your biggest writing concern right now?
Do ...
2023-04-23 19:38:38 +0000 UTC
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My best laid plans met my cat Vin last night.
Picture me, in bed at 9:00pm, ready to awake at 3:00am for this ridiculous ChatGPT routine, only for Vin to decide it was time to activate Devil Kitten mode.
Running everywhere! Meowing like her life is on the line! (I'm sure everyone with a cat understands.)
Now normally she calms down after twenty minutes and is ready for bed. BUT THIS TIME, as if she knew I needed to be up early, she decided to stay on something for TWO HOURS....
2023-04-10 20:30:39 +0000 UTC
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Hey y'all, hey! Today I present to you potentially the craziest experiment I've attempted since the 24-hour write-a-thon.
With Camp NaNoWriMo, Escapril, and the general insanity of trying to finish Project ☠️, as well as wrapping up previous month's experiments, I knew I needed a short writing experiment for Patreon for April. A day or two, tops.
As I was brainstorming possibilities, I remembered a comment from here! (Thanks Jean!)
2023-04-06 16:33:53 +0000 UTC
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Hellooooooo friends!
Once upon a time, I'd said that we'd have a final March write-in, to celebrate me finishing Project Death (loooool, now hopefully at the end of April) and to kick-off Camp.
Well.
Thursday morning my best friend/co-writer informed that she'd entered a radio contest and had WON....the chance to win Taylor Swift tickets. (My Swifties out there know how hard they were to get....and the two of us did NOT luck out.)
However, as you can see from ...
2023-03-31 18:46:46 +0000 UTC
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Hey y'all, heyyyyy!
I can't believe we're in the back third of March. Like, excuse me, where has the time gone? Why so fast? WHATISHAPPENING?
Before I dive into the purpose of this post (and all the fun opening line nonsense), I'd like to brag for a moment. This is quite possibly the only thing I'll "finish" this month, so I'd like to present, my Pierre the Penguin:
(Zelda's cle...
2023-03-21 19:23:03 +0000 UTC
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Someone (read: me) might have forgotten to move the drafted Double Stream Days post to "publish" and was confused why they were alone on a stream last night.
I'm not proud to say it took me like five minutes blathering on before I realized my mistake bahahah.
SO I HAVE MOVED THEM. (Note, we did just have Daylight Savings Time here so I might be an hour earlier/later than usual compared to your timezone!)
Double Stream Day #1 is TONIGHT at 7:00pm CDT...
2023-03-14 16:23:20 +0000 UTC
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Happy Monday (or Tuesday, for those much farther east than me bahaha)!
So last week I was scrolling through IG and happened upon "Escapril," an event that takes place during National Poetry Month!
(I'm not usually a fan of Instagram's algorithm, but in this case, their random recommendation really worked out well!)
Most of y'all will know that my big goal for the year is to "overco...
2023-03-06 19:17:06 +0000 UTC
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Hey y'all, hey!
Perhaps a surprise to no one, as cruises are simply floating Petri dishes in the middle of the ocean, but I got sick! With the flu! (Not COVID, thankfully.) I'm feeling a littttttttle better today, after a long weekend of sleep, but still sound like I swallowed a frog.
(This is the second cruise I’ve been on and the second I’ve come home sick from, so maybe my immune system is too weak for the sea life bahahah. Perhaps this is why I'm so obsessed with writing a...
2023-02-28 19:43:11 +0000 UTC
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Crawling out of my rewriting hole to come hang with y'all for a moment!
Project Death ☠️☠️ is in full swing once again and I AM SO EXCITED. Things are going super well. (Too well??) And I'm feeling confident that, while I won't be able to hit the initial February 28th deadline, I will finish this draft in time to get it to my CP Jessica at the end of March!!
But March 31st doesn't just mean the end of Project Death Draft 5, oh no! It also me...
2023-02-18 03:44:20 +0000 UTC
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Hey, hey everyone!
The first in the "forcing one of y'all to do a crazy, silly writing experiment alongside me" is COMPLETED!
The incredible Ash @agingerwrites has posted up her video, so I just want to shout that out HERE.
(Also thank you to Ash for letting me know that I uploaded THE WRONG VIDEO the first tim...
2023-01-26 17:27:58 +0000 UTC
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Sorry for the late notice, I just realized that I'll actually be out of town for the rest of January!
My brothers and I decided we hadn't done a "sibling trip" in a while, so I'll be venturing up to Dallas (where David lives, about 5 hours away from me), and then we'll be roadtripping our way through 2 or 3 states (depending on the route) to reach Robert up in St. Louis!
My list of silly...
2023-01-24 18:08:48 +0000 UTC
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Hi, hi, hi. Back again with another questionnaire lolol. A couple weeks ago, I got this comment:
And thought it was such a genius idea. I've also often wondered what makes bad writing, especially since we all have different definitions.
Sometimes I'm willing to read bad prose if I think the story itself is great. But I just cannot handle poor storytelling or lazy character building cop-o...
2023-01-13 15:22:03 +0000 UTC
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Happy Clean Off Your Desk Day, word nerds!
(It is also Word Nerd Day....and Static Electricity Day, but celebrate that how you will. Safely!)
I hope y'all have had an INCREDIBLE start to 2023! I know there's some sickness going around right now (and allergies here in Texas), so sending everyone some good, healing energy in case they need it.
As promised, I've created a ver...
2023-01-09 20:53:53 +0000 UTC
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Hello hellooooooo, everyone!
First off, it's time for our Double Stream Day slash End Of Year Party! Let's hangout and get some final words in on Thursday, December 29th at 7:00pm and Friday, December 30th at 7:00am (both CST). I also have some very dumb questions I'd like to poll you all about (lik...
2022-12-27 23:26:25 +0000 UTC
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I cannot believe it's almost the end of 2022. December's passed by in a flash -- lots of birthdays, lots of holiday parties, feeling like I can't quite catch my breath bahaha -- and we're staring down less than 2 weeks until the New Year!!
This means, of course, that I'm scrambling to get the last few things off my list before January 1st arrives. Anyone else??
For instance, organiz...
2022-12-19 16:28:45 +0000 UTC
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Hello, hello everyone! I've got to save all my words for my NaNo project, so I'll keep this short and sweet:
AHHHHHHhHHHH WE'RE ALMOST AT THE END OF THE MONTH!
My graph is looking like so, as my mad dash continues:
(And hopefully it'll look even closer by the end of the day, eek!)
We have one final round of patron-only writing sprints 2022-11-29 15:22:09 +0000 UTC
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So sorry for the late notice y'all! I thought I'd scheduled this to go live, but apparently not, silly me. 🙃
We did Day 10 sprints and now it's time for a Day 20 writing stream! We'll have some D100 chaos, some tinkly dice chaos, maybe some oracle cards, whatever y'all are feeling! Our hangout will last about three to four hours, like last time and I'm hoping to get a lot of writing in.
I'm also VERY FAR BEHIND and am going to try my hand at a 7K Day. It's slightly lower than a...
2022-11-19 23:40:22 +0000 UTC
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