Author: kimiko

Well NaNo is over as of 4 days ago and I’m sure you can tell my winning status if you’ve checked the word meter on the side menu. I did not, infact, “win” NaNo. I’m ok with that and there are a few reasons why. 1) I realized early on in Nov that my book…

There hasn’t been much activity here the last few days. I’ve been sick with a pretty bad head cold so it’s led to not a lot of creativity. I haven’t done much work on the book or even the plot though I did read a few short stories that made me wonder about some of…

But my loss is your gain! 😉 I was doing some surfing of website, etc and I found a bunch of links I still want to look through that will likely be helpful writing wise. Some author sites, some resource sites, you get the idea. If you are like me…and you are keeping a blog…

This doesn’t have anything to do with my book or writing but it is an accomplishment that I wanted to share. Some of you may know that I am in the martial arts. I have been taking it for over 12 years now. I am the only female in my class and one of only…

I wanted to put up a quick post because I want to remind everyone that even when you may not be putting words on paper (though that should be your first priority) you are likely still thinking about your book and your plot. Last night after a long day I sat down to read Holidays…

Total words written: 16,320 Words written today: 1088

Me and my Muse did some serious talking today and I think we see eye to eye now. At least it was very helpful in writing a quick and dirty synopsis allowing me to plot all the scenes in the book provided nothing else comes up. 🙂 I honestly don’t think I could have done…

This past weekend I spent a lot of time on my plot. There were big gaps missing that I felt had to be dealt with or I wasn’t going to be able to continue writing. I had written a lot of the scenes that I felt were really fun. So that is when I went…

I was almost done with a post and I blew it away. 🙁 So let’s start over quickly. I realized today that for the piece I’m writing, I’m going to end up needing up to 100k words or more. A typical Urban Fantasy such as something by Kim Harrison or Jim Butcher is anywhere from…