by KimBoo York | Oct 30, 2016 | Fiction
Writing is a lonely job…except when its not. Today was one of those days. I had to scuttle my original plans for #NaNoWriMo, leaving me with nothing to work on as most other options at hand suffered the same problems. I needed a fresh new story idea, one that...
by KimBoo York | Oct 29, 2016 | Fiction
I’m changing up my plans for NaNo. The book I want to work on, Link in the Chain, is really raring to go. The problem is that it needs a LOT of rewrites on what I have now before I can sit down to plunk out new parts. I knew this a week ago but I also have other...
by KimBoo York | Oct 28, 2016 | Fiction
TL;DR – Congrats on being a writer in an era when writers have options about how they want to become ‘published’. Now go write. Okay, let’s talk publishing. I’m a librarian, a text technologist, and a published author: this is something I...
by KimBoo York | Oct 27, 2016 | Fiction
It’s all been done before; our jobs, as artists, is to do it all over again. When I was a young girl, I used to be obsessed with doing the thing no one has done before. This was easy to do, simply because my own knowledge and understanding of the world was...
by KimBoo York | Oct 23, 2016 | Fiction
Doing the thing you want to do is not predicated on being the best at it. It’s taken me years to accept that I’m a fairly mediocre writer. Oh, I’m good — years and years (well over “10,000 hours” by, like, a factor of a zillion) of...
by KimBoo York | Oct 21, 2016 | Fiction
I’ve written before about my NaNo novel, which is a full re-write and completion (planned!) of my WIP Link in the Chain. It’s expanding out from first person POV present tense to tight third person past tense, mostly because I feel I need to include more...
