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@this-is-not-an-alien

XD No worries!

Weeeeell, it depends on your perspective XDDD. Some might say I’m on draft one billion, others might say I’m on chapter 20 something or other but I’d say…chapter 1. Again.

XD Re-writes just drag on forever sometimes. . .

Lol, I write really really nonlinear so it’s hard to say. Buuut I was planning to start releasing it chapter by chapter on December. I don’t really think it’ll happen that soon anymore because collage is actually super duper busy and I am so insulted by that I just recently finished revising my first chapter if ya wanna read it: This? (idk if the link works right I’ve never made a WordDoc link on SE before but I have sometimes had trouble to Word links sooo XDD, if it doesn’t work tell me)

How dare college be busy. XP And the link doesn’t seem to be working for me. . .

My style tends to be cluttered and so into “showing” it doesn’t actually tell what’s happening. This is the…third or ten-thousandths rewrite, and I got some really awesome editing advice from @taylorclogston which helped me a lot in revising my style and working out a lot of plot problems and inconsistencies.

But if you could point out any places were my style gets cluttered or things get confusing or anything at all that I should fix, please do tell me if you have the time and want to.

*salutes*

I have one question; WHEN CAN I BETA READ PLEEEEEEEEEEEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

*ahem* That sounds so so cool!!!!!

Heheh, thanks! Glad my feeble attempts at an on-the-fly blurb worked. XD

@noah-cochran

Even your introductions are written in excellent prose. I love it.

Merci!

Oh, come now Karissa, surely you can name at least a couple to appease our insatiable curiosity.

Heheh, that depends on how much time you have.

So tell me some about your writer self. What’s your other WIP? (other than the spies/assassins one–which caught my attention by the way, I mean, how could assassins not catch a writer’s attention)

My other WIP (unnamed at this point) is a cross between Robin Hood and Little Red Riding Hood set as a sci-fi. It features questions about trust, a crazy lot of parallel between those two stories, and maybe an exploding ship or two. 😜

What’s your writing process? Do you do much outlining? What are your desired word counts for your novels? Do you have any other hobbies or passions other than writing?

Writing process. . . as far as novels go, it’s definitely an outlining way. I’m a plotter who hates plotting (and, to be frank, I’m not great at it – my writing skills are much stronger than my storytelling skills at this point), so I’ll get input from friends at each step of the Three Act Structure, and then I’ll sketch out the chapters for myself before plunging into the first draft (I can generally finish a first draft in two months if I work steadily; last WIP I had to pause for a while so it was more like four or five months).

Desired word count is usually around 80,000, 90,000 words, depending on the project.

Other passions. . . most certainly! I enjoy music (I play the piano), walks with friends, graphic design, drawing (when I’m bored XD), rambling about little in particular. . .

I’m a total newbie to writing (seeing that the first prose I wrote were in July of 2021). I wrote a practice novel over autumn and learned a ton. I am currently revising my first real novel that I wrote over winter, and am outlining the next book in the series. I won’t go into depth about its plot (I’m am quite terrible at book blurbs), but at its bare bones it’s a medieval action adventure novel with a healthy dose of mystery. That may or may not be the vaguest description you have ever heard.

Ooh, awesome! And you might just have won the award for vaguest book description. 😜 How many books do you expect to have in the series?

Do you have any quotes from any of your former works that you especially like?