by KimBoo York | Oct 11, 2016 | Fiction
Like a beating drum, the call of November goes out: “You, yes YOU, can write a book!” And it’s true, you can. A “book” is a variable, actually — think of the “bible”, which is filled with “books”…well,...
by KimBoo York | Oct 1, 2016 | Fiction
If your defense of a fantasy story’s whiteness is “historical accuracy”, you are already wrong. The current wank about Tim Burton’s flat-out racist commentary on why he was “unable” to have a more diversified cast in the Miss...
by KimBoo York | Sep 25, 2016 | Fiction
I received a few grateful comments on my post about my writing “technique” (less of that than a writing “attack” but whatevs) from friends who felt encouraged by reading about someone who does not write “by the rules.” Because rules...
by KimBoo York | Sep 24, 2016 | Fiction
I felt like I was being held back, but the chains were self inflicted. My friend KimM calls it “ghost chains”, the feeling that something is stopping you from moving forward. I’ll vouch that sometimes, that’s a real thing — depression,...
by KimBoo York | Sep 21, 2016 | Fiction
This is my 100th day of writing a blog a day and posting at Medium. My goal is to do this for a whole year. It’s a challenge set to get me writing every day again, and also an experiment in honing my “writing voice” into something more unique than I...
by KimBoo York | Sep 20, 2016 | Fiction
I’ve written over five published books and 1 million words of fanfiction by doing everything “wrong”. I wrote in another post that my writing process is basically a disorganized, sloppy mess. For instance, I come up with titles for stories first. As...
