Kate Spofford, author

Tag: work in progress

  • nanowrimo 2016 progress update

    nanowrimo 2016 progress update

    I neglected to post here about my Nanowrimo novel for this year… Lately I’ve found the Mandela Effect rather fascinating, and I wanted to write something that would incorporate it somehow.  Yet without a firm idea, I instead decide to create a creep-tastic cover that might inspire me.  I scrolled through the sample covers on…

  • hi-ho it’s off to camp i go

    This year Camp Nanowrimo is already making me do great things.  I finished the rough draft of Scavengers (YAY! You can even see that it’s moved from my Works in Progress to Novels!) because I needed it to be finished before I started camp. I had a whole 2 days to spare, and I decided to use them…

  • goals & progress

    A quarterly update on my progress: to finish and publish Dreamwalkers to finalize the print edition of Hitchhikers and offer a giveaway or two (if goal #1 happens) to finish and publish Scavengers and to possibly finish some of my other works-in-progress, including Blood Countess and another new WIP that I haven’t even added to the site yet! be able to…

  • goals and not meeting them

    *sigh* I figured I’d update my word count over on the Dreamwalkers page, just to keep track of how well I’m doing on my resolution of writing 500 words a day.  Unfortunately, this forces me to acknowledge that I’ve only written 1,679 words this year when I should be up around 6,000.  I managed to…

  • freebie weekend, and hello from camp!

    My two companions novels, Bethany Caleb and The Art Kids, will both be available for free this weekend, July 13-14!  (Of course, these are both always free for Amazon Prime members).  Also available are the print editions of both books. So the long holiday weekend totally decimated my word count, but I am still writing…

  • Nanowrimo Update: Week 2.5

    Word Count: Above Par (34,484/33,333) Janina is less than 5,000 words away from finishing.  I am consoling myself with the fact that I am keeping my head above water. I am having a little too much fun with my deadly circus.  Since all the characters are dead, they can die over and over again in…

  • I’m not sure, but…

    …is one hour of writing in the middle of a 3-hour “American Horror Story” marathon good? Still working on Dreamwalkers, and I wrote about 1,000 words.  Janina was on a roll so I had to keep writing (instead of immediately turning on the next episode, my remote control finger was getting itchy) a little past…

  • My Secret Diary is now live

    So, I made the blog I was talking about in my previous post.  You can read more about it under the works-in-progress tab, or just visit it: http://www.mollyssecretdiary.wordpress.com Just make sure you ask “Molly” what’s going on in her life if she hasn’t posted in a while 🙂

  • Camp Nanowrimo Fail, or What I’m Finally Writing After Not Writing for a Month

    I had such high hopes for Camp.  I had a story I wanted to write, two writing buddies, it was going to be glorious!  Unfortunately, I only lasted 10 days at Camp Nanowrimo.  June is not a good writing month for me.  My birthday is during this month, for one, and I was still doing…

  • The Hunger Games: distraction or inspiration?

    I went to the midnight showing of “The Hunger Games” Thursday/Friday… then on Friday night, Janina was going to see the movie again so I was left to my own devices, none of which included writing.  I shouldn’t be so harsh on myself; I did do some research on literary agents, etc.  Put together some…