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This topic contains 16 replies, has 11 voices, and was last updated by  Kate Hewson 10 years, 11 months ago.

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  • May 28, 2014 at 4:26 pm #2956

    Sunny Henderson
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    Hiya, Kate!

    Love HP and Chuck Wendig! Glad to see you back this time around!

    Sunny
    http://www.sjhenderson.net

  • May 28, 2014 at 6:03 pm #2962

    Ann Stanley
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    Hi Kate, Nice to see you here again! Here’s to getting motivated!

  • May 28, 2014 at 8:47 pm #2968

    Ebony Haywood
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    Hey, Kate! Glad to meet you.

    http://www.sizzlingpublications.blogspot.com

    https://twitter.com/EbonyHaywood

  • May 28, 2014 at 10:14 pm #2980

    Angie Mroczka
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    Very nice to meet you. Look forward to reading that kick-arse story of yours!

    Thanks!
    Angie

  • May 29, 2014 at 12:54 pm #3032

    Katie Hamer
    Participant

    Hi Kate,

    I can sympathise: it’s not easy to get that great idea rolling. Hopefully, together we can grow as writers. Good to see you back again!

    Katie 🙂

  • May 29, 2014 at 1:58 pm #3052

    Elisabeth Adams
    Participant

    Flouncing: now that’s a fun word! Welcome back, Katie!

  • May 29, 2014 at 2:15 pm #3064

    Kate Hewson
    Participant

    Thank you for everyone’s lovely welcomes!

  • May 29, 2014 at 7:47 pm #3144

    Stephanie Gonzaga
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    Hi Kate! It’s great to have you as a classmate this year. J. K. Rowling’s a favorite of mine as well. I still have the first edition of the Sorcerer’s Stone with me and I protect it with my life! 🙂

    Besides HP, I enjoy reading Ursula Le Guin, Gabriela Garcia Marquez, Isabel Allende, Laura Esquivel, and the poetry of Singaporean poet Alvin Pang and ecopoet Gary Snyder.

    Looking forward to reading your work!

    • May 30, 2014 at 9:31 am #3213

      Kate Hewson
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      Thanks Stef! I haven’t got first editions of the first 5 books, but the last two I have and they are incredibly precious to me – plus I have the actor who played Percy Weasley sign my Half Blood Prince, which is my favourite and doubly precious! I haven’t heard of any other of your fave authors, I will have to look out for them!

    • May 31, 2014 at 11:54 am #3297

      Joe Bunting
      Keymaster

      You’d like Ursula LeGuin, I think, Kate.

  • May 29, 2014 at 8:27 pm #3152

    LoriMarie
    Participant

    Hi Kate, Maybe the structure of writing exercises will help get that story out. I hope so, I’d love to read it! I’m planning to use many of the exercises to write bits of characters history and moments before and after my novel. I’m looking forward to your stuff 🙂

    • May 30, 2014 at 9:33 am #3214

      Kate Hewson
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      Thanks, that is a great idea, I may do the same!

  • May 29, 2014 at 10:26 pm #3186

    James Hall
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    It’s hard to express how good it is to see you’ve returned Kate. As one of the very first writers I bonded with, I was very sad to see life get in the way of your amazing ability to write. I’m ecstatic to see you back. I’m going to go get some rope now, I’m not letting you get away this time! If I have to hover over your shoulder the whole time to get you to write it, I want to read this Kick-Arse novel!

    How are things otherwise and how is your friend doing?

    • May 30, 2014 at 9:38 am #3215

      Kate Hewson
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      James, what a kind and lovely welcome! Thank you so much, you made my day! Its good to be back and it is good to find a friend!

      And yes feel free to hover, I need someone to push me to write this damn novel.

      My friend is doing incredibly well, thank you for asking. She is a walking miracle, I swear, and I am thankful every day that she continues to improve.

      Oooh, I’m kind of excited to get going now…

  • May 31, 2014 at 12:03 pm #3298

    Joe Bunting
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    Great to have you back, Kate!

    I’m sorry to hear it’s been such a rough year. I hope that you can get the breakthrough in your writing in spite (or because!) of it.

    I like LoriMarie’s idea of writing exercises. I also thought of this great quote from George R.R. Martin that I read recently in Rolling Stone. I think it’s a good reminder for those of us, like me, who have a lot of great ideas but struggle with execution.

    Ideas are cheap. I have more ideas now than I could ever write up. To my mind, it’s the execution that is all-important. I’m proud of my work, but I don’t know if I’d ever claim it’s enormously original. You look at Shakespeare, who borrowed all of his plots. In A Song of Ice and Fire, I take stuff from the Wars of the Roses and other fantasy things, and all these things work around in my head and somehow they jell into what I hope is uniquely my own. But I don’t know where it comes from, yet it comes – it’s always come. If I was a religious guy, I’d say it’s a gift from God, but I’m not, so I can’t say that.

    Here’s the link to the full interview: http://www.rollingstone.com/movies/news/george-r-r-martin-the-rolling-stone-interview-20140423

    • May 31, 2014 at 4:29 pm #3342

      Kate Hewson
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      That’s a great quote, Joe, thank you! I guess its one thing to say I have a ‘kick-arse’ idea and another to put it into action.

      I suppose I should get on and execute then…

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