Kate S. posted an article on Noisy Typewriter - Dec 14, 2009, 5:41 pm
I used to update almost every day. I used to have time to read other people's blogs too. Funny how the end of the semester still gets me even though I'm not taking classes. I guess that's ...
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Kate S. posted an article on Noisy Typewriter - Dec 10, 2009, 7:50 am
This one has received the imprimatur of Boing Boing, so it might very well reach its funding goal. I've been keeping an eye on it for a week or so and finally donated. Tu Publishing is a going to...
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Kate S. posted an article on Noisy Typewriter - Dec 7, 2009, 6:31 pm
There's a link going around to a Salon article by an anonymous writer talking about how difficult it is to be a midlister. It's an interesting article, but by the end of it, I was frankly fed ...
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Kate S. posted an article on Noisy Typewriter - Dec 4, 2009, 6:37 pm
I'm really surprised I haven't gotten a rejection today, since everything else has gone wrong. I guess it helps sometimes to have just one story out. We're supposed to get a little bit of...
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Kate S. posted an article on Noisy Typewriter - Dec 1, 2009, 9:05 pm
If I didn't have to work, I'd be able to spend all day writing, right? Except that on days when I'm off work, I usually actually spend less time writing than on days when I do have to work...
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Kate S. posted an article on Noisy Typewriter - Nov 30, 2009, 6:53 pm
Finally, November is over. NaNo is over. I may change my mind next year, but I don't think I'll be doing NaNo again--I've done and won five times now, and I don't really need it to kee...
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Kate S. posted an article on Noisy Typewriter - Nov 28, 2009, 2:52 pm
In 2010, I will lose all the weight I meant to lose last year, start calling myself Alexa Serpentine, and take up treasure-hunting as a career. 700 words until I "win" NaNo. It's slow going.
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Kate S. posted an article on Noisy Typewriter - Nov 24, 2009, 12:56 pm
My story "Fall or Fly" is up at Every Day Fiction! I've also got a guest blog post up at Flash Fiction Chronicles about the editing/rewriting process after a story's been accepted. I've f...
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Kate S. posted an article on Noisy Typewriter - Nov 20, 2009, 10:27 pm
Yes, okay, I'm not finished with my NaNo book yet. I've been writing steadily on it, though, working hard to wrap it up with a reasonable ending. I reread the whole thing for the first time y...
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Kate S. posted an article on Noisy Typewriter - Nov 18, 2009, 7:36 pm
I've made it to about 32,000 words in my nano book. I'm really getting impatient with it. The writing is terrible, the story banal, the plot more of a plod. I like the main characters, but the...
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Kate S. posted an article on Noisy Typewriter - Nov 16, 2009, 7:17 pm
I'm feeling much better today, so much better that I no longer loathe my NaNo book. Still, at lunch when I dragged my beat-up notebook out of my bag along with the leftover pizza, I had a wave of ...
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Kate S. posted an article on Noisy Typewriter - Nov 15, 2009, 4:17 pm
I just went through my files to find an old story to rewrite or a WIP to finish that might catch my fancy. I'm so bored with my NaNo book that the mere thought of writing one single word on it tod...
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Kate S. posted an article on Noisy Typewriter - Nov 13, 2009, 3:05 pm
Time to call in the evil clowns and cowboys and attacking robots! I've run out of plot. How do you run out of plot in a book that is so far only 23,000 words long and probably will be wrapped up b...
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Kate S. posted an article on Noisy Typewriter - Nov 12, 2009, 12:57 pm
Ideas are easy. Writing is easy, even though writing well may not always be. Even revisions are easy. No, the hard parts of writing are the parts no one ever tells dewy-eyed young writers about. I ju...
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Kate S. posted an article on Noisy Typewriter - Nov 9, 2009, 7:37 pm
I'm down to one active short story. I've either sold or retired everything else I've written. I have three stories forthcoming in different magazines, but that's it. I hate writing sh...
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Kate S. posted an article on Noisy Typewriter - Nov 9, 2009, 2:47 pm
I made it to 15,500 words on my nano book as of last night. Today at lunch May was having lunch too with a king and the maybe-pirate. For some reason, I decided that the meal was made up of three cour...
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Kate S. posted an article on Noisy Typewriter - Nov 7, 2009, 5:56 pm
I got home from an exhausting day at work to find Mom waiting for me in the side yard. She looked so smug that I thought she'd done something crazy--bought that moldy house on Dogwood Road, maybe,...
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Kate S. posted an article on Noisy Typewriter - Nov 6, 2009, 8:10 pm
I have an hour for my lunch, and today (as I usually do) I pulled out my sandwich, chips, and spiral notebook to write while I ate. I figured I'd written maybe 500 words, but when I typed it up, I...
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Kate S. posted an article on Noisy Typewriter - Nov 4, 2009, 7:10 pm
I play the online game Kingdom of Loathing, and today I ran afoul of the Dwarven Factory Complex Puzzle. I've spent the last hour figuring out the code for which rune stands for which word--I got ...
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Kate S. posted an article on Noisy Typewriter - Nov 3, 2009, 9:47 pm
I dug in and wrote today, even though it's Tuesday and Tuesdays are my long days at work. I wrote longhand, so of course I had to type it all up when I got home. Considering that I had a lot of re...
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Kate S. posted an article on Noisy Typewriter - Nov 2, 2009, 8:20 pm
I've written 2,500 words on my new NaNo book. Sorry, Tiger, you've been kicked out of the NaNo club. Enter The Dragon Whisperer, which has managed to engage my interest. I may not have to giv...
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Kate S. posted an article on Noisy Typewriter - Nov 1, 2009, 8:08 am
Here is is, November 1, and I've written 800 words on my Nano book. I stayed up to midnight last night to start (since I was watching Ghost Hunters anyway). Those 800 words were like pulling teeth...
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Kate S. posted an article on Noisy Typewriter - Oct 31, 2009, 3:44 pm
Here it is, the only picture of me you're ever likely to see here, at least without me half-hiding behind something. I don't like having my picture taken. Halloween, though--that's differe...
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Kate S. posted an article on Noisy Typewriter - Oct 30, 2009, 12:26 pm
I just found out that my story "Voices" is up at Everyday Weirdness (actually it was up yesterday). You may recognize the influence on my fiction of me watching way too much Ghost Hunters. (Speaking o...
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Kate S. posted an article on Noisy Typewriter - Oct 29, 2009, 8:28 pm
I've started my new book review blog, Skunk Cat Book Reviews, for those of you who are interested in that sort of thing. Two days and a few hours until NaNoWriMo, and I have made peace with the f...
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Kate S. posted an article on Noisy Typewriter - Oct 28, 2009, 10:15 pm
I've decided to start an informal book review blog, mostly so I can keep track of which urban fantasy books I've read and which ones only sound like ones I've read. Well, also I think it m...
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Kate S. posted an article on Noisy Typewriter - Oct 27, 2009, 7:36 pm
I just found out today that my story "Orcs and Trolls" will be included in the Every Day Fiction 2009 Anthology! I really didn't think I'd be in this one, although I have two stories in last y...
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Kate S. posted an article on Noisy Typewriter - Oct 25, 2009, 11:01 pm
Oh yeah, I have a blog, don't I? Maybe I should post. I've been adding to Bell-Men this evening. There's a lot I want to change and add, which is worrisome. NaNo starts next Sunday! I don...
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Kate S. posted an article on Noisy Typewriter - Oct 22, 2009, 8:44 pm
Mom gave me the new Terry Pratchett book for my birthday, Unseen Academicals, and I spent many lovely hours today reading it. It's awesome. I had to set aside Jim C. Hines's The Mermaid's ...
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Kate S. posted an article on Noisy Typewriter - Oct 20, 2009, 8:09 am
I finished The Bell-Men last night. Somewhere along the line, the working title stuck and I think I like it as the real title. I'm taking suggestions for improvements, of course. The word count e...
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Kate S. posted an article on Noisy Typewriter - Oct 19, 2009, 8:55 am
I'm so close. Also, finally, I think I know how I'm going to end this thing. The only problem is getting butt in chair and bashing out the last five thousand or so words. So: reward time! If ...
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Kate S. posted an article on Noisy Typewriter - Oct 17, 2009, 7:10 pm
Someone needs to tell Mother Nature that it doesn't get this cold in mid-October in the Tennessee valley. We had to turn the heat on today. I have my flannel sheets on the bed along with a heavy ...
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Kate S. posted an article on Noisy Typewriter - Oct 15, 2009, 9:58 pm
My 10k day turned into a 5k day, but I'm happy. It didn't really take me long to write 5,000 words, either, considering I didn't start until 1pm and took a lot of time off to do important...
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Kate S. posted an article on Noisy Typewriter - Oct 15, 2009, 10:40 am
Fifteen minutes after I dragged myself out of bed (late) and dressed, because I was determined to be efficient today and write 10,000 words, Mom came in and said she was having trouble with her new So...
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Kate S. posted an article on Noisy Typewriter - Oct 14, 2009, 8:32 pm
I just finished the day's 2,000 words on Bell-Men. I'm now 72,545 words in, which is a little over 10,000 words this week. That's a lot more than I thought I'd written, so I'm pret...
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Kate S. posted an article on Noisy Typewriter - Oct 12, 2009, 5:50 pm
Last week I wrote 17,000 words on Bell-Men. I haven't counted up this week so far, but the count is pretty low. I don't usually get a lot done on the weekends--I seem to feel I have lots of ti...
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Kate S. posted an article on Noisy Typewriter - Oct 10, 2009, 9:20 pm
Okay, so Bell-Men has two types of vampires. One type of vampire is more or less traditional. You have to cut their heads off to kill them. I need to figure out how to kill the other type. Even the tr...
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Kate S. posted an article on Noisy Typewriter - Oct 8, 2009, 1:18 pm
Yes, I've been looking at the search terms that led people to my blog. "Bee zombie" is one, which absolutely charmed me. And if you Google "Embarrassing lines," my post of the same title comes up ...
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Kate S. posted an article on Noisy Typewriter - Oct 7, 2009, 7:45 pm
Last WIP Wednesday I was 45,000 words into Bell-Men. Now I'm 62,000 words in. 17,000 words is a pretty good week's wordage; pardon me a moment while I smirk. I'll get to 65,000 words tomo...
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Kate S. posted an article on Noisy Typewriter - Oct 5, 2009, 8:34 pm
I've only written about 1,000 words today. I think I will force myself to write at least another 500 before bed. But posting my wordcounts is getting boring even to me. Unfortunately, I absolutel...
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Kate S. posted an article on Noisy Typewriter - Oct 4, 2009, 7:21 pm
Maybe 'wasted' is a bit strong, but I'm not even quite at 55,000 words on Bell-Men and I'd planned on 60,000 by now. Cam's in the bell-men's world now and she's about to me...
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Kate S. posted an article on Noisy Typewriter - Oct 2, 2009, 5:17 pm
I just updated my NaNo profile for 2009! If you're going to be doing Nano this year, hop on over and buddy me. I hope they've fixed the bug where the page only displays 11 of your buddies, bec...
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Kate S. posted an article on Noisy Typewriter - Oct 2, 2009, 5:49 am
I totally, seriously, truly got this email from Amazon this morning.Please, no one ever let me know if Jack of All Trades is as bad as Vampirates.Dear Amazon.com Customer,We've noticed that custom...
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Kate S. posted an article on Noisy Typewriter - Sep 30, 2009, 6:06 pm
Unless I get an acceptance in the next five hours, September will be the first month this year in which I didn't get an acceptance. On the other hand, I don't have much out right now. I did ha...
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Kate S. posted an article on Noisy Typewriter - Sep 28, 2009, 9:51 am
I got to 35,000 words on Bell-Men last night, mostly by reminding myself that Nano is coming up really soon and I want to finish this project before then. I'm aiming for 80,000 words minimum, so I...
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Kate S. posted an article on Noisy Typewriter - Sep 27, 2009, 10:49 am
I opened up the Bell-Man document earlier and was finally starting to read over what I'd written the night before, when my cat Vincent started making mighty-hunter mews from the doorway. Vincent ...
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Kate S. posted an article on Noisy Typewriter - Sep 26, 2009, 1:33 pm
I stopped by the post office on the way home from work, and my copy of the new 52 Stitches came! I can't think of a better thing to read on a super-rainy September day than a collection of scary s...
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Kate S. posted an article on Noisy Typewriter - Sep 25, 2009, 5:22 pm
I haven't written very much yet today, but I exceeded 30,000 words last night on Bell-Men. Cam is angsting a little bit, but she spent the night in jail so she's allowed. Last night I also ma...
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Kate S. posted an article on Noisy Typewriter - Sep 24, 2009, 1:14 pm
Since The Bell-Men is an urban fantasy of sorts, and since UF is such a strange category--taking on aspects of fantasy, horror, romance, and mystery pretty much equally--I thought I'd ask you all ...
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Kate S. posted an article on Noisy Typewriter - Sep 23, 2009, 10:06 pm
After a mid-week slump--I blame the vampirates--I'm back in the saddle for Bell-Men again. I finally finished typing up all the longhand writing I did the last few days, and I'm at 27,400 word...
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