katecavanaugh

So long, New York! Hello to all the words I need to write!

I remember, on the eve of the 100KQ4 Challenge, saying that I was so happy I felt those nerves I used to experience before every November. That it meant this challenge would feel similar, would hel...

October stream schedule & look at our 100KQ4 progress, omg!

Hi friends!

Coming to y'all today from the St. Louis airport (after getting 616 words in my 100KQ4 project, woo)!

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The final prep stream, the kick-off, & our shared tracking!

There's this anxious, excited feeling knotting my stomach, the same feeling I used to get in the lead up to November. I'm glad! I thought that maybe it wouldn't show. That us creating our own chall...

I'm back with 8 days to outline for our challenge, EEK!

We're at the point where we can start counting down the days on our hands until our challenge kicks off! Am I ready? NO. But I'm hoping to be soon!

This next week will be all about outlining....

A book tree, a "group project" poll, & a stream this week!

Look! My book tree lamp!

I’m slowly but surely making over my office space and, with the additi...

Our first prep stream & crossing through one of my goals!

Hi friends!

Popping in real quick to tell y'all I'm silly and forgot to post the link to our stream happening soon! (In, oh, an hour or so as of me typing this lolol.)

My goal for this ...

Hi, September!

Today's high is 88 and it's expected to storm in San Antonio for the rest of the week. Fall is almost here!

To celebrate, last night I turned on Charmed and played Super Mario Odyssey while e...

Double Stream Days, Preptember plans, & more 100KQ4 (or 100K with Kate!) chat

Helloooooo!

Tomorrow is our first Double Stream Day of August. :) You can find the link to the stream here an...

An audacious challenge & how to write a mystery!

I had an idea that's so audacious (some could say ridiculous) that I needed to rush over here and work out the kinks with y'all.

Before that, though, let's get the housekeeping out of the way...

My fall "writing semester" & our final stream of July!

Hi friends!

Today is officially Day 7 of my 1000 Words of Summer challenge and I already have some ✨thoughts✨on this experiment. I'm excited to see if these realizations evolve while on t...

This stream will self-destruct after 1000 words...

Today is my first day of the 1000 Words of Summer experiment! I grabbed a tea this morning, did half a page of handwriting in my story notebook, and then immediately hopped into a new Scrivener doc...

Coming home early, 1000 words of summer, & journaling habits!

Originally this post was meant to be a "hello from Ireland!" but instead it's a "hello from my usual spot in Texas!"

Perhaps unsurprisingly, given that I rarely leave my house except to visit...

Finding an editor, July's writing experiment, & book swag questions!!

Hello, helloooo! I’m drafting this from Barcelona (or just outside it, in Castelldefels). This is what the beach looked like last night. (At 9:20pm! The sun was just barely setting!!)

2024-06-29 11:54:23 +0000 UTC View Post

I finished my ACFoC re-read & the #24hrnovel challenge!

Hi friends!

I HAVE DONE IT. I've finished my re-read of A Closet Full of Cauldrons. Just finished, in fact. Like ten minutes ago, as I'm typing this. Tomorrow I'll get to start Draft 3 and di...

Analyzing alpha feedback & our stream schedule for the next month! :)

IT'S FINALLY TIME!

I received the feedback from all three alpha readers and now it's time to corral, parse through, condense, and otherwise analyze what they thought of A Closet Full of Cauld...

On mega outlines, writing experiments, craft book club, & moooore!

Sometimes I put writing experiment polls up to y'all and one option blows the other out of the water. I kind of love when that happens, because I know that means y'all are just SO EXCITED for one o...

I FINISHED + bonus stream and book club + experiment poll!

QUICK EDIT: So sorry, y'all! Have to run out and help my partner's grandma. Moving our stream back a day, but at the same time. (Friday the 12th at 4:15CDT) Thanks and see y'all then!

I DID I...

Self-imposed crunch time, find/replace mishaps, & Triple Stream Days!

Hello, hellooooo!

Crawling out of my Crunch Time Cavern to wave as time flies by much too fast. March is almost over? Hello? What?

The cavern is of my own making. I “finished...

Streams, fantasy craft books, & YouTube! :)

Hello, hellooooo!

Popping in today with a couple announcements.

First up, I'll be over on the Inimitable Books, LLC channel for a 2024-02-26 15:22:13 +0000 UTC View Post

Short on days, may chaos reign!

Hi friends!

For the shortest month of the year, February sure is proving pretty hectic for me! So far, there's been:

• the INCREDIBLE Prime Writing Weekend to kick it off (thank y'a...
  2024-02-15 21:01:53 +0000 UTC View Post

On Writing (by Stephen King) & Prime Sprints Still To Be!

Hi friends!

Hope you've had a great start to your February! We have one more day of the Prime Writing Weekend with only the 71, 53, 41, 19, 11, and 5 left to go! If you can make it, I'll be s...

Prime Writing Weekend starts TODAY!!!

Ahhh, thank you all so much for voting for this weekend! I cannot WAIT for the insanity to begin bahaha.

(I'm also aiming for my 10K Fridays -- 10,000 words, 10,000 steps. Maybe to...

TIME MOVED | final JanuWriMo stream & book club chat!

Hi friends!

Popping in real quick to let you know I changed the date & time of our final JanuWriMo stream and book club chat (2024-01-29 01:54:46 +0000 UTC View Post

Prime Writing Weekend?!

Hi friends!

During our Januwrimo Stream #2, after the D100 rolled a 5 and then a 19, we jokingly decided to do a 9...

Being scared and doing it anyways...

Hi friends! I'm finally back from Japan!

I'm drafting this at four in the morning because my slee...

Sinusitis, JanuWriMo, & Writing Craft Book Club!

Hi friends! Last we chatted (before my power went out on stream, lol), I had BIG PLANS for December.

Well. Turns out December had very different plans for me!

After visiting my...

All the streams! All the planning!

QUICK UPDATE:

We just completely lost power. Now idea what happened; looks like our whole neighborhood is dealing with it. :( Sorry for the abrupt end to the December 1st stream!! Hopefully e...

Hitting 50K, halfway hooray sprints, & demise of the daily NaNo vlogs....

Happy new moon, y'all! 🌚

(I only missed it by a day, so we'll just pretend bahaha.)

I hope you've had a WONDERFUL start to your November and NaNoWriMo (if you're participating). I ho...

EEEEK, October is almost over!

Where, oh where, has the spookiest month of the year gone??

I had a dream last night that, with the brief cold front blowing through San Antonio, we wouldn't get any trick-or-treaters tomorro...

I'm back!!

HI EVERYONE.

It has been far, far, far too long. I'm finally back from my road trip and settling into a pseudo-routine. (As much routine as one can have during this CRUNCH TIME of Preptoberâž...