Kate Spofford, author

Tag: writing group

  • my first writing retreat!

    my first writing retreat!

    Last weekend I participated in my very first writing retreat. Here’s what I learned!

  • to share or not to share

    to share or not to share

    that is the question… whether tis nobler in the mind to write alone and suffer an anonymous fortune, Or to share said writing against a sea of criticism

  • Nanowrimo 2018 Week 3 – oops, Week 4 Update

    Nanowrimo 2018 Week 3 – oops, Week 4 Update

    The struggle is real.

  • writing weather?

    You’d think, after having four giant snowstorms in as many weeks and getting a number of days off from work for that very reason, with nothing to do other than sit in my apartment alone, that I would have done MUCH more writing than I have. Nope. Yesterday cabin fever set in and I had…

  • Scavengers, Chapter 1

    Despite taking a week off to work on Scavengers, I still have to push the pub date back (again).  So, as a thank you for waiting patiently, I give you the first chapter! -1- I was already having a pretty bad couple of days before I got kidnapped. Not that my life was really all…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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,…