Kate Spofford, author

Tag: work in progress

  • i’m a winner!

    Cabin Fever is not a complete draft yet, but I did cross the 50,000 word finish line.  Along the way, I realized that I wanted to write the novel in third person, and not from 3 different first person narrators.  However, I have a solid start and hopefully I’ll be able to keep the momentum…

  • and so it begins…

    It’s November 2nd, which means Nanowrimo has started again!  Yesterday I managed over 1,900 words and my goal for tonight is to get to 3,500 before American Horror Story comes on. My novel this November is called “Cabin Fever.”  Up until about Oct. 25th I had no idea what I was going to write about, so I went over…

  • inspiration!

    Recently I read the novel Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs, which is just such a cool book that I’ve been telling everyone about it.  Basically, the author took a bunch of weird old photographs and wrote a story around them.  He certainly had some really, really weird photos, from people who…

  • i’m a cliche… maybe

    I found a nice list of one writer’s top ten pet peeves about historical fiction.  Since I’m currently writing a historical fiction, I figured I’d see how cliched I was… #1: 21st century attitudes in historical characters: GUILTY The narrator of The Blood Countess, Ilona, is a pretty modern girl.  She questions things.  She likes to…

  • write it up!

    So recently a friend and I began an informal writing group. We’ve met the past three weeks and it’s been great! Not only do I have someone to talk to about writing, I’m getting more writing done (as opposed to how much writing I was getting done in the two months before we started meeting,…

  • the weather is too nice for writing…

    It must be the weather. Either that, or I’m so close to finishing Hitchhikers that I’m delaying it. It’s hard to end something I’ve worked on for so long… unlike during Nanowrimo, when I am usually so ready to finish it and put it away and not look at it for a few months. I…

  • keep on truckin’

    So, a round-up of my publishing efforts thus far: 26 submissions sent, only 12 actual rejections. The rest have yet to respond (and some of them probably never will). I am on track as far as sending out submissions to get my 100 rejections, but lagging behind in getting the actual rejections! I am trying…

  • wash. rinse. repeat.

    It’s back to square one. Nothing panned out, unless you count my growing number of rejections. So it’s back to querying, and writing of course. Still working on Hitchhikers, although I may take another stab at Blood Countess if I can’t get past the weird place I left my Hitchhikers narrator in last night…

  • 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…

  • longhand

    Lately I’ve been working on my “apocalypse story,” which I had started on my computer.  But being on my computer leads me to get sucked into things like Facebook and Spider Solitaire and watching movies or TV shows on Hulu while I write, which leads me to NOT write… so I decided to work on…