reading and writing a life
Last year I e-published two poetry collections and a short story. My goal was to follow up with ad promotions and social media blitzes in hopes that reviews would roll in but life kind of got in the way. Without promoting the ebooks, 25 copies sold and Kindle Unlimited users got another 125, which pleased […]
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Originally posted on Brigit's Flame Writing Community:
How’s November treating you? How are you treating November? Don’t forget to unchain yourselves from the writing desk occasionally. You may be a novel-making superhero, but ya still need protein and fresh air once in a while. I have never fully participated in NaNo, though I did…
How fast did April go by! Possibly for the first time ever, I completed a month-long writing challenge. This is a noteworthy accomplishment, because the writing, and the daily posting coincided with daily reading, in addition to writing for the weekly Brigit’s Flame prompts. April writing was BIG. Now comes the question: is any of […]
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WordPress stats informs me that I have published eighty-nine posts here on generationKathy. Not surprisingly, at least sixty of those posts have been about my attempts at writing. During February I alternately chirped with delight and whined like an irritable toddler about compiling my first poetry collection intended for submission. During March I mostly bitched and whined […]
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My renewed obsession with cento poetry is truly an obsession. Obsession: an idea or thought that continually preoccupies or intrudes on a person’s mind. Early in the month, I became so enthralled with this form again, even the April prompts for Brigit’s Flame seemed to flow perfectly with the emerging intent to create a collection solely dedicated […]
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Copied from:Vine Leaves News Blog Congratulations to the Quarter-Finalists of the 2015 Vine Leaves Vignette Collection Award! The manuscripts on this list are those which Jessica, Dawn, Krystal, Kristen and Theresa unanimously believed would be an honour to publish through Vine Leaves Press. Though we do not have any strict judging criteria (these are vignettes, […]
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Ramshackle Houses, my collection of poetry and creative nonfiction that I have been prattling on and on about for the past couple of weeks, has been completed and submitted. After all that prattling, after my reading friends put up with a half-dozen rewrites and all my bitching and moaning, and after pounding away at this thing […]
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The rewrite of the prologue to that yet untitled z-fic is complete, and I think Chapter One is pretty solid. Not bad for five hours work. The gruesome monsters won’t make an appearance until toward the end of Chapter Two, so I’ve still got time to relax a little before loading up the high-powered rifles. […]
Read More…Yesterday was my self-imposed deadline for submitting my collection. I spent the entirety of Monday scrambling to fix mistakes, not the least embarrassing of which was an Acknowledgments page faux pas. I had actually tried to research writing the Acknowledgments page, but came up with squat after two weeks. Until, as it happens, moments after a […]
Read More…THE PROJECT is almost done and gone. I will be reading through a final time tomorrow, and submitting bright and early Monday morning. What’s next? I actually have a schedule mapped out for THE SECOND PROJECT. I’m looking at about three months of work, six days per week… and that might be a low estimate. […]
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Kathy Boles-Turner 