Author: Kim

This Author’s Life

Posted 3.28.2017 | Tuesday by Kim in WIPS / 0 Comments
This Author’s Life

So Kissing Frogs is with the amazing Trenda London of It’s Your Story Content Editing. It’s already been through one round with her and she is everything I was told she was. She’s fantastic at critiquing work without making the author feel terrible, which is something I appreciate! Her advice is dead-on and thought-provoking. Author Jessi Gibson recommended […]

Pacing sucks…

Posted 2.1.2017 | Wednesday by Kim in Writing Process / 0 Comments
Pacing sucks…

Today I am starting another round of edits on Kissing Frogs.  I did major plot changes during the last draft and now I have pacing issues.  So now I am going to go through it and create a new timeline in my handy OneNote notebook and play with it.  Hopefully, this will be an easier draft […]

NaNoWriMo is over!

Posted 12.1.2016 | Thursday by Kim in NaNoWriMo, WIPS / 0 Comments
NaNoWriMo is over!

And now I can breathe!  It’s been a rough month, so busy I thought my brain might explode.  But as crazy as it was, it was good creatively.  The book I started during NaNoWriMo, only about half completed, was inspired by a cover I bought a while ago.  Midway through NaNoWriMo, I had a spark […]

NaNoWriMo Updates

Posted 11.8.2016 | Tuesday by Kim in NaNoWriMo / 0 Comments
NaNoWriMo Updates

So just over a week into NaNoWriMo and I can say that it’s going pretty well.  I’m about a week ahead of schedule, which gives me a nice cushion in a month with Thanksgiving in it.  I’ve never been one of those writers who is capable of cranking out five or six thousand words in […]

Writing and Planning…

Posted 10.30.2016 | Sunday by Kim in Writing Process / 0 Comments
Writing and Planning…

I’ve been so busy with rewrites for I Kissed a Frog and working on the first draft of Last Night that it completely slipped my notice that the annual tradition of NaNoWriMo was fast approaching.  So here I sit, two days before it starts, at Green World Coffee on a Sunday morning brainstorming, planning, and doing some story […]

Writing and Editing

Posted 6.17.2016 | Friday by Kim in WIPS, Writing Process / 0 Comments
Writing and Editing

Kissing Frogs… My upcoming first release, I Kissed a Frog, is in the hand of two trusted readers.  That is the second draft of the novel and I am looking forward to getting it back and going through their suggestions and notes.  I have been in the world of the book for so long that I […]