Kay (she/her)

10K reached on my latest redraft of HCP 🎉

I'm not writing daily like I wanted but I am still plugging away at it. ✨️

The cat queen of caffeine ✨️

Start of school really has left me exhausted (in the best way) so I've been sticking pretty close to my 10 minute goal each day.

But we got 20 min and 427 words down tonight. Slow and steady...

Started this morning rather excited to start chapter three, and to get so much done in my classroom. I did get stuff done there!

But I really want to sleep, so 99 words to added to the count.

Deep breaths, me. Even God rested.

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After a long fulfilling day of classroom set up, I had zero energy to write my book.

But I set a timer for 10 minutes and 261 words later, Chapter 2 is redrafted. Onto chapter 3...

Slow and steady. Slow and steady.

Giving audiobooks a chance again so I can still read while I finish a few more plans.

I'm extremely picky about narration, but I'm loving whoever is doing The Lies of Locke Lamora. A+ narration.

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Had a long day of necessary appointments and plans, but finished it all off with 1.6K words on HCP tonight.

It feels like it's going so slow, trying to work in details carefully, keep the prose up to par, but I'm just gonna keep telling myself...slow and steady wins the race.

Trying to improve at a subjective craft without a mentor who helps you grow into your own voice and style sometimes feels like an impossible task.

But I put 832 words on paper tonight. They felt like good words, and they are another step to making this book what it can be.

It's about time to set up a writing schedule so I can knock out a new draft during the upcoming school year.

I admit I haven't written a word all month, and I'm feeling like quite the imposter. So I hope this schedule helps. ✨️

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This looks SO PRETTY

Just when I think i have a handle on my writing process.

I realize I need a 3rd redraft and I begin questioning if I know anything about myself. 😅

This one for all my subscribed Patreons:

A brand new piece that took me TWO WEEKS, some help, and so much restarting on the metal shading. I am incredibly proud of it. ✨

www.patreon.com/posts/memori...

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17 chapters polished and 5 to go!

With the Lord's favor, we might get this done by the end of June yet.

A dark gradient background with black fading into red fading into a yellowed off-white. The background is overlaid by torn paper upon which is the quote: "Tears rolled hot down Rook's cheeks. They spattered on his dirty boots while his shoulders shook and heaved. The world ended, piece by piece, in choked breaths and gasps of air between sobs. Cor didn't answer. Rook wept." from the Half Crown Prince.

More snippets as I'm polishing today:

Sometimes, I have to remind myself that "reading" doesn't just have to be dense 5lb thick books. Books come in all shapes, sizes, and styles.

It's just as valid to consume 15 Spider-Man comics.

Bc reading is about fun and empathy, not page count. 🖤

According to one of my beta readers:

"It's [The lore is] never enough unless it comes with a lecture"

And this is why I struggle with word count XD

A torn piece of paper overlays the image of a well dressed man with a raven-headed cane. On the paper is the quote "All power comes at a price; So does all peace." quoted from The Half Crown Prince.

Sneaky peek at one of my favorite lines in HCP, quoted by Lord Venwood.

Cover reveal image for The Fault Mirror by Catherine Fearns, from Quill & Crow Publishing.

From All the Parts of the Soul author, Catherine Fearns, comes a brand new time-bending tale of love and loss, as the Chateau des Miroirs reverberates through the generations, connecting two souls destined to find each other. Preorder THE FAULT MIRROR today at TheCrowShoppe.com 🏰🪞

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I'm mostly back on schedule with revisions after a couple chapters that needed heavier changes.

Did I want to be done a week ago? Yes.

Would I rather polish this as much as possible instead or rushing it? 100%

It's okay to work on the time set for you, not someone else's. 🖤

Sometimes revising and polishing causes me to go looking through my language journals or mythology, songs, poems, etc. and I find old stuff I completely forgot about.

It's my favorite thing because I feel like I fall in love with my own world all over again.

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an image of gandalf from the animated hobbit movie. he has a big white beard completely covering his mouth, wearing a pointy wizard hat, and he's holding up a sword that's giving off a shining glow while he looks at it. the image is captioned "I hold the sword of a thousand truths, and it tells me it is never a waste of time doing the things which bring you joy."

Good morning✌️🍀

I love much of HCP (I mean I wrote it) yet going to the City of Corvus and introducing the reader to Rook's past, his family, his friends, that remains one of my favorite parts to reread and work on in all honesty.

It's library day, which means new fuel for revisions.

Only one chapter got done yesterday, but I believe it adds so much more to the story now.

Magpie knows...secrets...

Tis that time of day, hitting those chapters hard with the polish.

I will continue to post this, because otherwise I will just lie on my couch and eat cinnamon oreos...

It's been a long week.

Rest here, weary writer and artist.

You deserve it.

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