Author Archives: Kat Folland

This blog was born as a writing blog, but going forward I am going to broaden the concept to include whatever the heck I feel like writing about. After all… 280 Characters? I made a post at Bobspora that had … Continue reading →

Warning up front: TvTropes can make you lose hours – if not days – of your life. To quote from the front page: Tropes are devices and conventions that a writer can reasonably rely on as being present in the … Continue reading →

As I posted about previously, I lost more than two months of productive work due to a ridiculous migraine. When it went away it was like being reborn… with a full in-tray. Over the past ten days I have done … Continue reading →

I had to take two and a half months off due to a migraine, so this story isn’t fresh, but I wanted to tell it. My youngest started a creative writing club at her junior high school. That all by … Continue reading →

Fictionally! I’m not posting from beyond the grave! Nathan Weaver is a friend of mine who is also an author. He’s taken on a project to try to actually make some money as a writer (which I can understand!) in … Continue reading →

My goodness, it’s been ten months since I wrote a post for my blog! 2014 wasn’t a good year for me. Not because of things that happened that year, it just sort of… worked out that way. At first I … Continue reading →

The Spell Builders was meant to be a short story, just the facts, tell don’t show. But I was having trouble finding my narrator’s voice. Finally I thought to ask her to write me a letter, telling me about herself. … Continue reading →

I chose to do NaNoWriMo a bit differently this time around. I felt a little funny being a NaNo Rebel, after a few years of pumping out a full first draft in a month. You see, NaNoWriMo started something a … Continue reading →