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  • Writer Wednesday: The Writer’s Diet

    First, please note that when I say “diet” I do not mean “calorie counting fascism designed to make you feel terrible about yourself and trigger all your eating disorders”. I mean, quite specifically, all the food that one ingests — one’s diet. Next, I do not speak for all writers here. I am only talking…

  • Wherein your author goes insane during late-night revision sessions

    Another screenshot from chapter notes during Bellica revisions. The strain may or may not be getting to me; either way it’s worth it. Why be normal?

  • Notes from the revision pile

    And by “revision pile” I mean picture me under a PILE OF REVISIONS. Anyway. Here’s a picture encompassing what’s happening in Katje-land today. Yes, this means I’m working on a chapter with some boy-love in it. Because sometimes bros are just bros who have sex with each other. I love slash so much I just…

  • 30 in 30: Day 25 (you seriously don’t want to know how big my “to read” list is)

    Any five books from your “to be read” stack Doing a Literature Review: Releasing the Social Science Research Imagination, by Dr. Christopher Hart The Goddess Path: Myths, Invocations, and Rituals, by Patricia Monaghan Bodhisattva of Compassion, by John Blofeld A Lion Among Men, by Gregory Maguire The Pagan Book of Living and Dying: Practical Rituals,…

  • Voting closed: results are…..(drumroll please)…….

    [polldaddy poll=4622143] I’m apparently doing a podcast! Of course, I’d pretty much already made up my mind, but I did want to see how many of my readers would actually listen to a podcast or if it’d just be me circle-jerking to the sound of my own voice (and yes, I do hate the sound…

  • .a small confession.

    I spend a lot of my time wishing I was more creative. Or. Well.  Wishing I could express my latent creativity with more ease. I see pictures in my mind and I can’t get them to form on paper. I draw stick people and my handwriting is crap. I create songs without words, but cannot…

  • 2011 Writing Goals

    Start Bellica rewrites. Write 4 chapters of The Jade Star of Athering. Complete Clio Muse table for parthenon. Write rituals for Imbolc, Ostara, Beltaine, Litha, Lughnasadh, Mabon, Samhain, and Yule. Flesh out some story ideas. Fix up Snowbound. Finish 30 books in 30 days blogging prompt challenge. Win NaNoWriMo.

  • Oh, let’s get her started again, shall we?

    Well, you can obviously tell this author is a student by the four-month stretches of no posting at all. It’s been a rather crazy few months. Shortly after my last post my Oma died, and then shortly after that school began. Between those things, two new relationships (one failed on account of him being a…

  • That’s progress, I suppose

    I have not actually written any on The Jade Star of Athering since August 2nd. However, I have thought about writing on it, and even opened the notebook to the appropriate page so I can start typing up the handwritten chapters I have done so I can continue on, as I’ve reached that point where…

  • Adventures with an Amsterdam Prostitute

    This past weekend was a long one for Victoria Day (Canadian holiday — yes, we have those), so I decided to go to my dad’s for a few days. My dad is a farmer, and going to visit him means helping out on the farm or in the garden. WHAT I AM A WRITER I…