If you're here to read my stories, here are the links to the sections/chapter for both ongoing works. This post is unlocked, but the entries themselves are friends locked, in case I want to publish these some day. If you're not on my friend's list, but want to read the stories, either friend me and let me know, or email me and I'll send you an ( Read more... )

The Secret Keeper by Kate Coombs

Good lord! Guess my Liath story isn't really very unique any more.

Wonderful advice. I'm still totally in that stage, and it's hard because every now and then I write something small - maybe a poem, maybe just a single scene in a short story, and I can tell that it's *good*. Which makes the huge volume of crap that I write most of the time that much more depressing ( Read more... )

My car ended up needing a $1500 repair this weekend, so I'm offering custom poems, short stories, or whatever else you can think of to try to raise the money to pay the bill. Go here if you think you can help.

Ok, so I just found out that the little problem where my car has started taking two tries to start in the morning was actually a symptom of a much larger issue to the tune of around $1400. I don't have $1400. What I have is an awful lot of debt and an uncertain job future. Since I absolutely need my car, the $1400 is going on the credit card, ( Read more... )

Hush, little kitty don't say a word ( Read more... )

So last night I dreamt that I had published a novel - just a short little YA fantasy thing, and I was at a conference giving out ARCs. For some reason, there was a huge trash chute next to my booth, and people kept picking up my book, flipping through it, and then throwing it down the chute in disgust. There were all of these *brilliant* writers ( Read more... )

So last night I had a dream that I was reading a book. It was a short book, maybe 120-150 pages, almost a novella. And it consisted of a number of short vignettes from the points of view of twelve people who lived in a single apartment building and never spoke to one another. The narrative would switch back and forth among the characters ( Read more... )

I am trying to get back into the writing habit, and to actually make some progress on the things I'm working on. So for those of you who do occasionally read what I post here, I have a proposition. Reply to this post with a question for any of my characters - major or minor - and I'll write their answer. No guarantee you'll get a straight answer ( Read more... )

I think I've determined that the part of writing I suck most at is character development. The problem is that the characters mostly show up in my head as fully fleshed out people. I forget, sometimes, that they're not in the *reader's* head.

I was writing a scene yesterday for Keeper of Secrets (yes, I *am* still working on that) and it ( Read more... )