Katiaesque

  • Turning The Lights Off Can Be… Illuminating

    So, remember that revision cave I told you about? Well, as you might have guessed, this week Mother Nature pulled me out of it. Instead, my house became a cave of sorts: dark and cold one, though pretty well stocked with food, wine, flashlights, board games and water. Hurricane Sandy brought such devastation to our…

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  • Psst… an admission: I haven’t really been writing. But that’s okay.

    I haven’t really been writing. Wow — just saying this — writing this now feels huge, ominous, like saying, I am an alcoholic. But it is the truth. (Not the alcoholic part, thank goodness, the not-writing part, I mean). Well, I should amend this by saying I’ve been writing every day for my job. You…

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  • Still Me

    Just a note today: yes, I survived the week. I am kind of astonished. Yeah, I’m a bit tired, sure. But I did it! I worked — and did pretty okay, I think. My bosses seemed happy. My family seemed pretty happy. Most incredibly of all, I seemed pretty happy. I walked my dog every single day. I…

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  • Can I? Will I?

    I haven’t even started working yet … this coming Monday is the big day, and already, the stress is eating me up from the inside… can I do both? Can I do both? Or actually, can I do all three? 1. Work — and do a good job — be that proper cool capable in-control Patch editor…

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  • The Call of Adventure

    Here I am crafting my latest story, mostly plotting right now. Using myths and age-old storytelling tricks to bend and twist my emerging book into shape. If you read Joseph Campbell’s “Hero With A Thousand Faces,” then you may know about how every story is at heart really an adventure, with a usually reluctant hero facing…

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  • Let’s Leap!

    Happy Leap Day, everyone! You know how we always wish we had a little more time? If only there were 27 hours in a day, we’d all complete a ten-book epic series by now. If only we had an eight-day week, oh how rested and relaxed and accomplished we’d all be… Well, today, we get…

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  • The Magic and The Price of Virtual … Reality?

    Two weeks away from the Magic Mirror! I am so sorry! Inexcusable! Unacceptable! Here is my excuse, anyway: my manuscript. I’ve been re-writing. Re-thinking. Re-plotting. The different possibilities of my emerging story have been driving me wild. Even with all that, though, I couldn’t stay away from the web — that sticky virtual web of Facebook-twitter-blogs-gossip.…

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  • Living A Versatile Life: 5+ Random Tidbits

    I think being a versatile blogger can spring from living a “versatile” life — one full of change and adventure. I also think most people lead versatile lives — we can’t help it: growing up is change, life itself has so many facets. Here are 5 random tidbits from mine: 1. Before I turned four…

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  • Versatile Blogger: Moi?

    I am sorry I’ve been away — too long — and the worst part is — due to my crazy superstitions (see my previous post), I can’t even blog about it! Argh! In the meantime, while I was running around doing stuff,  a few marvelous things occurred in the blogosphere. Marvelous thing number one: I…

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  • Keeping a Secret

    As a writer, how much do you talk about your work — and how much do you keep secret? I definitely err on the secret side. A very select few know about what story I am working on right now. Fewer still know what I am planning next. I sometimes wish this was different. Sometimes my work…

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