It's NaNoWriMo season! In years past, this month would have found me stocked up on candy corn and bursting with plot. Alas, PCOS means I really shouldn't be eating pure sugar and the events of the last two months have conspired to drag out the draft zero process of this WIP. Instead of candy corn… Continue reading November, November
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Seattle!
Well, we're back! We got home Tuesday afternoon with plenty of time to get groceries and do some cooking and laundry and chores and - of course we just pet cats and went to bed early instead. Seattle was good. It was amazing and autumnal and everything we remembered and then it was time to… Continue reading Seattle!
Just Keep Swimming
The benefit of consistently writing for so many years is that you really get to know your process. Which means knowing what works for you, but also knowing where you struggle. I've come to accept over the years that 1/3rd of the way through a first draft is always where I start losing momentum. The… Continue reading Just Keep Swimming
Pneumonia
I just spent the last two weeks completely useless and out of it. It started with a flu, only to quickly devolve into walking pneumonia. It's hard to be productive with a fever, so I acquiesced to the sofa and too much Netflix. A brief round of antibiotics was enough to clear it up. All… Continue reading Pneumonia
Lighting Up the Office
I have an office that, I'm sure like many offices, has slowly been filled up with clutter over the years. It has become acceptable to shove things in there when we are busy or tired or simply don't know where to put the thing. This made me reticent to actually use my office as an… Continue reading Lighting Up the Office
This Week’s Hike: Arizona Trail, Molino Basin Part 2
The Molino Basin Campground is closed during the summer, which I should have taken as a sign. This must be an amazing trail in the winter. In the summer... it was hot and sticky and gross for the first mile. There are a few scattered trees offering a (very) brief respite, but otherwise the trail… Continue reading This Week’s Hike: Arizona Trail, Molino Basin Part 2
This Week’s Hike: Green Mountain Trail
I decided to head a bit further up the mountain to find a cooler and shadier hike this week. The basin was all well and good, but it was also a little - okay a lot - exposed. Only a few miles up the road there are plenty of pines to cool things down. I've… Continue reading This Week’s Hike: Green Mountain Trail
Exciting News!!!
I've been sitting on this news for a few weeks because I wanted to make absolutely certain it was Official(TM), but but BUT: I HAVE AN AGENT! Rainbows! Rainbows for everyone! I am proud to be represented by Kurestin Armada of PS Literary Agency. I still can't quite believe those words. Honestly, any time the… Continue reading Exciting News!!!
This Week’s Hike: Molino Basin
We won't know whether or not we're making a very big move for another month. That's four weeks of not being able to plan, not being able to have anything solid, of drifting - but it is still four weeks of life. I need to take advantage of that, of every moment we have left… Continue reading This Week’s Hike: Molino Basin
hello August
The month of figs and warm sunsets and bats and starry evenings and fireflies and thunderstorms and peaches and obscene amounts of sweat and virgos and blueberries and the smell of cut grass and leos and cow walks and morning hikes and sunflowers and palo verde beetles and double rainbows and birthdays and squeezing every… Continue reading hello August
K. A. Doore 