I first hopped onto the National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) bandwagon over ten years ago, during my final year of high school. It was a wild experience that taught me both the perils and benefits of writing so much, so quickly. I loved it so much that I did it again a year later in… Continue reading Camp NaNoWriMo or How I (Re)Learned to Love NaNo
Category: Writing
What’s to Come
Ever since committing whole-heartedly to being a writer, I've taken the time every six months or so to sit down and plan out what I'm going to do next. This keeps me committed, keeps me on schedule, helps me practice hitting deadlines, and reminds me that new projects should always be just around the corner. As… Continue reading What’s to Come
#Pitmad Coming Up on June 4th!
Although I have been around the internet since modems made that awful dialing noise while they connected - or rather, tried to connect - and I have been on Facebook and Livejournal and now WordPress since forever, I have had a hard time with Twitter. It's such a fleeting, ephemeral platform, where there is no… Continue reading #Pitmad Coming Up on June 4th!
Research
In gearing up for my next project, I've been brainstorming what I'm going to research, how I'm going to research it, and in what format I want to share that research here. Because it's going to be all magical girls, all the time, it'll be a lot of fun - I'm planning to binge watch… Continue reading Research
Stasis
I.E.: the brief reprieve that comes between large projects. It's an interesting time when you've just finished one big project, but you can't quite start the next one. Part of this is because I've come to learn that when I need to query, I can't be focused on another story. I've tried that before and… Continue reading Stasis
WIP Check-in: DONE DONE DONE
Is the final draft done yet?: YES Current page count: 209/209 Shots of whiskey: 1 Current problems with the manuscript: there's probably something left to fix in the beginning or middle or what have you but it's small and inconsequential and what I'm trying to say is THIS IS DONE AAAH *FLAILING INTENSIFIES* It's… Continue reading WIP Check-in: DONE DONE DONE
WIP Check-in: One Day to Go
Is the final draft done yet?: NO Current page count: 200/209 Shots of whiskey: 2.5 Current problems with the manuscript: I AM A LITTLE TIPSY AND OVERWHELMED WITH TODAY'S REVELATIONS Almost there! I think most of the worst of the editing is done! It's just line edits and tweaks from here on out!!
WIP Check-In: The Final Draft and Final Countdown, Day 1
I have a week left until my wholly self-imposed deadline of April 1st to finish this final draft of my WIP. I'm a month late already and April Fool's Day just seems to be an appropriate time to send this beast to my beta readers. There is an awful lot of restructuring and rewriting to… Continue reading WIP Check-In: The Final Draft and Final Countdown, Day 1
First Draft = Done!
I wrote the last word of the first draft this morning. It felt... oddly anticlimactic. But it's done. Every scene is in there, from the very beginning to the very end. Unlike draft zero, which was basically a 130 page outline. This is cleaner, more polished. Almost - but not quite - there. I have… Continue reading First Draft = Done!
This is the WIP That Never Ends
It keeps on going on, my friend. One person started writing it not knowing when she'd stop. And she will keep on writing it forever just because - At least, that's what it feels like! I had a December deadline to reach 100k words, thinking that would be close enough to finished. That passed by… Continue reading This is the WIP That Never Ends
K. A. Doore 