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Tag: Writing

  • Technology and Writing

    I lurk in dark and sordid places on the internet where I find writers are wont to gather. Sometimes I say something. Most times I do not. A while back, someone posted a request for information. Apparently, this person had sent out their manuscript to a few readers, and they’d come back with the critique…

  • It’s Still Writing….

    I’m taking time away from fiction writing for a bit (Relax, it’s just the next 2-3 weeks.) to work on a small paper and accompanying construction notes for a speculative medieval European style devil mask creation for an SCA Arts and Sciences display in the beginning of March. You look at me weird. “Huh?” I’m…

  • A mosey or a sprint?

    Sometimes I sprint when I write. I emphasize “sometimes.” My sprints look something like this: I’m puttering along, minding my own business, scribbling ideas, nit-noiding over word choices, plot ideas, whatever for manuscript X when suddenly, in walks the muse. My muse and I have a … Well, I don’t know what we have, exactly.…

  • Unexpected Issues

    I was going to spout off about EIN’s today, but my daughter is sick. She woke at 3am with a cough and fever. That means she’s staying home today. And my in-laws have hooked her on an insipid show involving singing vegetables. It’s already difficult writing when I have childroon chirping and demanding something every…

  • Should – Shouldn’t; Would – Wouldn’t; Could – Couldn’t

    Every once in a while (about every other day if I’m lucky, every other hour if I’m feeling particularly manic), I’m stricken with doubts about my writing and making it a BIG THING. A profession. A publicly viewed entity. I’m told that’s normal. I’m told a great many people cycle between “I am a genius…

  • Copyright

    Today I’m going to jibber about copyright, and why you, as an artist or writer, should consider shelling out for it, especially if you are self-publishing. *Note – I’m not a lawyer, so when you read this post, keep that in mind. “But Katty,” you say, “We don’t have to worry about copyright. United States…