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  • IWSG November 2023

    First, an apology—this site was kattywampusbooks, a free blog on WordPress. In the adventures of creating a big girl author website and put some skin in the game, I purchased a domain and an email and so on. I did not purchase kattywampusbooks.com. as a domain name because, while it was listed as being “available,”…

  • Cold Turkey

    Why is cutting oneself off from an addiction of some kind referred to as “Cold Turkey”? “I’m going cold turkey.” It sounds like you’re making a sandwich out of holiday leftovers. Sandwiches made from leftovers can be yummy. Not miserable. I’ve whinged quite a bit about “why aren’t I writing?” all the while binging YouTube…

  • IWSG October 2023

    The saga continues. I’ve transferred the website to WordPress ont he first of the month, but now I’m working on…migrating?…kattywampusbooks posts over to the new site, but I’m going to wait until after this post goes out. I think I’m waiting because IWSG has been the only consistent thing for me (the last few years)…

  • IWSG September 2023

    So I know that IWSG is 12 years old today, and I know it is recommended that one talk about when did you discover IWSG, and How it is Positively affected you? But I’m soooooo Insecure, that I feel the need to babble on about myself, especially since I am not nearly so well-known as…

  • IWSG July 2023

    Where do your ideas come from? Sometimes, they come from half-remembered dreams. Lately they’ve been coming from documentaries. A short documentary about the history of mythical plants that hunt people and animals is interesting, and then inspires an idea about a story for gathering said plants, and then and thenandthen… Once I was driving home…

  • IWSG February 2023

    Ah, the new year! We’ve had a month to settle in, give our resolutions a go (often in a stop, start, wait-how-can-I-make-this-work-for-me, start again, kind of way), and maybe reassess if that’s how we’re going to do things. My magic word for 2023 is FOCUS. Thus far, I have focused on everything EXCEPT writing. It…