I’ve been fucking around with a few ideas for the new year both for writing and for other stuff in regards to my site and Rough Trade. I announced the July challenge for Rough Trade which you can check out here. I’m looking forward to it. My mood is improving and I’ve been writing which is good. I’ve only picked out two projects to share on Evil Author Day but I’m still looking through my stuff to see what else might be viable.
I really don’t have much to say since I’m all blah and shit. There were no radio shows in November because of National Novel Writing Month. I did complete 50k during the month but I still feel like I failed the challenge since it is a disjointed mess that I can’t even open at present because it is so frustrating.
Sometimes I hate my brain because it never stops. Just about half way through my NANO story, I came to realize that my structure is deeply flawed. This comes from a creator perspective because I’m not getting there in the writing and by “there” I mean I’m not seeing the story develop the way I wanted it to develop. The premise is a lot bigger in my head than what I’ve been able to put down in real, actual words.
You might have noticed a bunch of shorts being posted to my site. They’re my responses to short prompts we are hosting on RT. They’re literally writing exercises for me and I’m sharing them here because I figured you might want to read them. They are not “ideas or prompts” that you can take and expand on. I’m serious. Don’t take my work and expand it — that is really fucking rude to be both do and to do suggest.
I launched a forum for Rough Trade and it is called The Workshop.
Reading Time: 1 MinutesI’m dog sick and relatively moody beyond all comprehension. Rough Trade went very well and the erase date is October 1, 2016 so please make sure to read all you want before that point. And remember that harassing authors about their work on RT is very rude and super unappreciated. I remain singularly uninspired by all of my ideas but I think it’s just because I’m sick. I ran a fever all of yesterday and I’ve been running one today as well. Summer colds suck so much ass. I don’t even feel like reading which is ridiculous because I can’t remember the last time I felt that way. Facebook is boring too (no offense to my friends there). I don’t even feel like working on my RT drafts from July. It’s just an insane how lazy I feel right now. Anyways, I don’t have much to talk about regarding my projects since I’ve done jackshit since RT. Check out my radio shows: July Radio Shows Anything Goes Bitch Craft: Changes & Consequences Bitch Craft: Character Motivations and Consequences Plot Drift: Rachel Edwards is killed… (Hawaii 5-O) Bitch Craft: Reshaping Canon Events & Ramifications Born This Way -KM
Reading Time: 2 MinutesHi All, I finished my read through on Sentinels of Atlantis and made my final tweaks to the overall plot arc for season 2. I’ve got a few dangling pairings and some world building to do on the political front for Earth but I’m pretty happy with my finalized plans which I’d honestly hoped to have done by the first of May (that obviously didn’t work out). I finished the rough draft of the story I outlined in my May 8, 2016 podcast (Plot Drift: What if James Potter left Britain with his family?) and it sort of … well. Let’s just say that what came out of it was inspired but that plot drift and leave it at that. The first draft is around 51k but I expect to increase by at least 25% during the second draft stage and that’s before it enters beta. Since we’re in challenge now and we’ll be in challenge again in November, I don’t expect to put this particular story (currently untitled) into beta until the very end of the year. Well, unless I break something. That being said I have no intention of posting this particular book until the other two books in the trilogy are in the rough draft stage. There are a lot of moving parts and keeping my plot tight for the whole project means nothing gets published until everything is written. We’re a couple of days past the half-way point for Rough Trade, and I’ve…
Reading Time: 1 MinutesI wanted to drop a note about my podcast and give sincere thanks to those of you who listen to the show either live or from the archive later. The traffic adds up and allows the show to pay for itself in advertising dollars. Any other funds get cycled back into the site for hosting and plug-ins which can add up when it comes to paid features and the like (boring stuff). Anyways, thanks for listening and please keep checking out my special brand of crazy. I did a little beta work for Jilly’s NCIS Big Bang entitled “Memories“. You should check it out. May Radio Shows Plot Drift: What if James Potter left Britain with his family? Plot Drift: John Sheppard is an Ancient Plot Drift: One day Q disappears… Plot Drift: Rodney and John bond accidently New Works Courting Hermione Granger (H/HR) Chapters 1-10 & Chapters 11-20 Works In Progress Since I was prepping for the next RT challenge, doing the beta work for Courting Hermione, and doing a few shows, I really didn’t make a lot of progress current works in progress. I’m pretty confident that the Unspeakable Plot is going to be my Mulligan Challenge for RT in April provided I get to a good place by the time signups come around. Rough Trade We’re just a few days out from the next Rough Trade Challenge and we’re doing the Sentinel Fusion again. The challenge is to write 3 short stories in…
Reading Time: 2 MinutesThings I find irritating: demands, expectations, assumptions, and entitlement. I saw a post on Facebook the other day with an anti-Drumpf slogan: Make America Kind Again. I suppose many people see me as a bitch and that’s fine–I come from a long, distinguished line of bitches but I don’t think I’m cruel. Maybe some would disagree but there also the same people who think they have the right to boss me around. Let me be frank, I don’t even let the man who pays my bills tell me what to do. Anyways, it’s April and our next Rough Trade challenge is in July. And signup will open on June 1 so you have plenty of time to think about participating, whine about the theme, and the challenge requirements in public like I’m going to change them to suit you because you’re special and more important than the rest of us. Recently, some of the readers who are on the site for Harry Potter and the Soulmate Bond have been pitas (pains in the ass) about my writing schedule for the year and how that impacts THEM. It’s no secret that I plan to work on Sentinels of Atlantis next. I have a fuckton of Stargate fans, easily four times as many actually when compared to the HP fandom. I’d say 80% of my members are here for Stargate. They’ve been waiting for FOUR years for the second season of Sentinels of Atlantis and they’ve been patient that whole…
Reading Time: 1 MinutesIt’s April and the first day of the new Rough Trade Challenge. I’ll be participating and I’ve already posted my first part. My story is called “Iterum” and is set in the Stargate Atlantis fandom. You can view the project file and read the first part here. New Works & WIPs The second book in the Lantean Legacy: In the Silence has been posted The Russian Translation of Eternal is now available on AO3 I”ve finished my first draft of Courting Hermione and will start the second draft after April Rough Trade. I’d like to start posting the second season of Sentinels of Atlantis in June so we’ll see how that goes. Radio Show I’ve been sick so my podcasts for March were on the light side: Bitch Craft: How’s It Going to End Short & Junk: Fandom Meandering Bitch Craft: Going Pro New Art I have a bunch of new lovely art for “In the Silence” By Fan Arts Series and I’ve added to the Lantean Legacy Gallery:
Reading Time: 1 MinutesI’ve decided to write a monthly newsletter sort of thing. We’ll see how it goes. I celebrated Evil Author Day, of course, on February 15th. Click on the link to check out my offerings for this most awesome fandom holiday. I’m gearing up for April Rough Trade. The last day to sign up is March 15 and the challenge begins on April 1st. Our theme this time is “Second Chances” so it’ll be pretty broad and we’re seeing a lot of fandoms in the sign up so far which went over 50 today. My personal project for April will be a Stargate time travel fic — McKay/Sheppard pairing. I made my own banner art for inspirational purposes: New Works Her Secret (Harry Potter) – Harry/Hermione – BDSM. Harry’s wife has a secret that will change their marriage. The third part of Tangled Destinies (Chaos) has been translated into Russian. You can check the series out on AO3. Works in Progress Updates Darkly Loyal is almost finished then it will go into beta which could take several months I’m on Chapter 15 of my re-write for The Unspeakable Plot Courting Hermione Granger is about 4k from being finished I’ve finished my replot on Sentinels of Atlantis Season 2 I’m ironing out the details for the season 2 plot for Harry Potter and the Soulmate Bond I’ve started my final section of Phoenix so I hope to have it ready for beta sometime at the end of May. Radio Shows for…
