Kate Spofford, author

Tag: Nanowrimo

  • word counting

    A few posts ago I mentioned that I was compelled to write longhand as inspiration had dried up and there were too many distractions… but I’ve slid back into my old type-ster ways.  It’s all because of word count. The new Microsoft Word 2007 has a feature that displays the word count as you type…

  • A long awaited update

    It’s been a while since I updated, huh? Well, I wrote another novel in November. My New Year’s resolution for 2009 is to get a book published, so I’ve been busy sending out queries and having friends read my rough drafts and editing, as well as working more on The Blood Countess. Other than that,…

  • Found it!

    Yes, two months later, I found a secret stash of discs in my desk drawer, and happily, one of them contained several drafts of The Wolven: Animal Nature, as well as a few novellas and novels I had nearly forgotten about, or thought I’d lost to the computer gods. Of course, my new computer does…

  • Oh, no…

    I got a new computer last summer…. Good thing, right? Well, I have only just now discovered that a novel I have written TWICE is nowhere to be found. Not on any of my flash drives, not on my floppies, not even on my old lap top. Just gone. And I had written this thing…