Tag: indie author
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Leaving the Frog Pot
The author reflects on their time in rural Georgia, feeling alienated as a Pagan in a conservative community. Despite attempts to connect, they feel financially and emotionally drained. With safety concerns and a lack of opportunity, they decide to leave, highlighting their sense of isolation and urgency to escape their situation.
Y. K. Greene
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Guest Post: Catrina Taylor “Knights of the Immortals”
“Knights of the Immortals” is based on the question “What IF there were other hominid species that continued until today? What would they be like?” The answer might surprise you, it did me. When I started the first thing I did was look into the possibility that humans of today once walked with other hominids…
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The Quick and Dirty
So where have I been and where’s that book I promised you – a year ago? Truth of the matter is, my dear dedicated reader, that it’s been a long nasty road that I’m not done traveling yet and I can confirm has been seeded liberally with landmines. The gist of it? I picked up…
Y. K. Greene
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What the Azathoth is Going On Here?
Posts have been few and far between for a while now, culminating in a long period of seeming silence. I haven’t updated anyone on what’s going on with the books or posted anything of use on the blog, facebook, twitter or tumblr. A few particularly astute readers have taken the time to track me down…
Y. K. Greene
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“Writers Write” Is That Really Too Much To Ask?
I’m in the middle of NaNoWriMo and polishing off a novel I’ve been struggling with for about two years now but something was making the rounds of my independent author feeds the other day that rubbed me such a wrong way I stopped what I was doing and took a minute to reply that turned…
Y. K. Greene
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Look Ma! No Hands!
I’ve been having a few nagging pains in my three of the fingers on each hand. When that pain progressed to my thumb and wrist I started to worry and when I woke up one morning and realized the fingers on my wright hand were swollen like sausages – I realized it was time to…
Y. K. Greene
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A Vital Reminder
This last year has been a not so great time for me. I’ve spent a lot of time focusing on family (often at the expense of my writing) while my family minimizes my written work and suggests with full candor that I would be better off doing literally anything else. I might be a stone…
Y. K. Greene
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“There’s No Such Thing As Magic”
Hamartia by Junedays on DeviantArt Here I am, deep into book three of the Eldritch Elysium series, “Tasting Ash,” and I’m already coming up against the great thorny caltrop I laid down to wreck myself in “Toxic Ash.” I knew damn well that in a story dotted with shape shifting boyfriends and their poisonously beautiful…
Y. K. Greene
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Two Steps Forward and Three Back
So my monitor died some time ago and I didn’t realize how much of a ginormous hit that was to my productivity until I got it replaced and immediately felt like a weight was lifted from my writing that I’d never even dared contemplate was there before. Which should mean that I’m cranking out chapters…
Y. K. Greene
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Scrivener Series: Export Draft
This is the sixth installment in my Scrivener Series, which showcases how I use Scrivener write entire novel series. Be sure to check out my writing process post for quick links to the currently published posts and a preview of what I’m going to cover next. In a perfect world (but unfortunately not the current…
Y. K. Greene
Blargle Splect: Writerly Musings & Blather 