“Take Pashmina with you,” Mother said, and Raina could tell by the jut of her hip that it would be no use to argue. It was bad enough that she had to fill the water jars today. She had already …
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Ready, Set, Write!
🎵 It’s the most wonderful time of the year… 🎶 No, not Christmas—NaNoWriMo! Come November 1st, writers all over the world will bend to their keyboards in an attempt to conjure 50,000 words out of thin air before midnight on …
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One of our local NaNoWriMo coordinators gave our Facebook group a silly prompt to warm up for NaNo prep season. It was fun to stretch those flash fiction muscles a bit. Prompt and my contribution are below: “Hey NaNo-ites, how …
Continue readingUnpopular Jane Austen Opinions
After spotting the question on someone’s Twitter stream, I posed it to my Facebook friends. “What is your unpopular opinion about Jane Austen’s books?” Here are some of mine: * Fanny Price is upright, admirable, and praiseworthy. She is also …
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I was recently invited to participate in a story swap exercise with a Twitch streamer I follow, ScottWritesStuff. The exercise works like this: the viewers vote on a sentence to be used as the first sentence of the story. Then …
Continue readingA Diversion from Writing: More Writing!
The first draft of The Cat Price marches on, and it grows progressively more entertaining (making me oh-so-aware of the massive edits the first few chapters are going to need to bring them up to snuff!) Meanwhile, I was delightfully …
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I’m currently finishing up the first draft of The Cat Price, a middle grades fantasy novel about an unseen world, the meaning of friendship, and the power of belief. I started this project last November as a participant in National …
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My name is Katrina, and this is my first blog post on my personal website, a sample text with which to test out my site design. No one’s ever going to read it, so I suppose I can write whatever …
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