Fantasy Author and Very Serious Person
I'd meant to get back to sharing updates here on a regular basis and I suppose once per season can be considered regular. I've been busy, using every extra minute that's not parenting or dayjobbing or generally trying to stay sane on finishing and then editing catastrophe!WIP. Oh hey, how's that going? Let's check in… Continue reading Mid-Spring Check-In
I have successfully made bread multiple times this January, despite being a self-described failure at bread in the past. And now I can teach you, too, how to bake a simple loaf of bread. Just follow these easy instructions and you'll be well on your way to maintaining a semblance of sanity making tasty bread.… Continue reading This Is a Post About Bread
First off, 2023 was a much better year in the Doore household than 2022. Last year was the year COVID finally caught up to us, resulting in multiple months of recurrent illness and a general feeling of blah. I had to cancel my physical attendance at the Chicago WorldCon, which I'd been dearly looking forward… Continue reading 2023
First off, happy belated Winter Solstice! The shortest day is past and it only gets brighter from here*. Growing up in Florida, the winter solstice held little significance to me -- winter days are bright and sunny, so why did I need to celebrate the light's return? If anything, I celebrated the summer solstice with… Continue reading 2022
A well-meaning question that's just as hard to answer. Sometimes I can truthfully answer -- after a few solid 5am writing sessions -- "good." Lately... it's more complicated. "It's going," suffices for both of us, and is equally true. But what I really want to say, and what no one has the time for, is… Continue reading “How’s the writing going?”
It's been pretty quiet on here, huh. Probably because it's been pretty quiet outside of here, too. I've been kind of drifting for a bit, occasionally dipping my toes back in to see how the water feels, if this is where I want to jump in and dive deep and see just how long I… Continue reading The State of the Doore
The decade ends in a little less than two weeks, an arbitrary endpoint to an extraordinary time. I went from being afraid I would never figure out what I Wanted To Be When I Grew Up (TM) to being exactly where I've always wanted to be - with sufficient wiggle room for growth. It was,… Continue reading A Decade & A Year
It's been a Quiet on the Outside, Busy on the Inside kind of month. I've been burning the candle at both ends to get copy edits for book 2 done and in and just shy of perfect. Funny thing: when the book you're fixin' was written five years ago, there tends to be a bit… Continue reading All Quiet
It is November 28th. There are three days remaining in November, which means three days remaining in National Novel Writing Month, that time of year when thousands - hundreds of thousands - of writers try to plunk down 50,000 words in the span of a single month. In years past, I have diligently hit the… Continue reading On NaNoWriMo and Failure, Or: How I’m Learning to Embrace My New Writing Process
I just finished a six week hiatus from Twitter. Or at least an attempted hiatus. To be honest, I dipped my toe in a few times with the excuse of checking DM's only to get swept up into reading a few tweets before realizing what I was doing. But my slip-ups only reaffirmed my need… Continue reading Hello Twitter, My Old Friend
K. A. Doore 