Kate Lamb

Hey guys,

I’ll be releasing part three of my Show Don’t Tell Course in the next few weeks.

For the marketing side of things, I thought ideally I wouldn’t just tell people what the course will teach them, but show them. 😛

To do this, I’m looking for a scene I could edit just using the techniques I teach in my course. Then I could show the raw…[Read more]

So, I’m plotting my latest and greatest novel at the moment, but I’ve come across a plot hole, and unfortunately, it keep getting bigger the more duct tape I put on it.

For the sake of secrecy, since I haven’t announced this idea to anyone yet, suffice it to say the government is mostly evil, the radicals are also evil and the main character…[Read more]

I’m going to Realm Makers this year! *throws feathers*
So I was wondering who else was going and if any of y’all wanted to split a room. Even if you don’t want to split a room it would be nice to meet some of y’all there (if you are going). 😀

@rochellaine @ashira @jenwriter17 @ncstokes @snapper @ethryndal @alia @jessi-rae @emgc @princess-foo…[Read more]

Hey Saxon Scribes, we’re doing another word war! This is a great chance to plow through your manuscript.

At the end of the week, submit your word count here: https://goo.gl/forms/CtXuDDqnPKBlzmPF2

@ethryndal @corissa @raemarie @kate @j-parkhurst @gabbyj @chalice @noahlitle @julianne @germaine-han @sesi @r-j-karas @rosemarylouise @msqueen8 @timoth…[Read more]

Hey Everyone! This may be our last week on worldbuilding and I wanted to touch on a subject that’s dear to me.

If you listened to our second podcast episode, you heard me argue that Tolkien was a great writer largely because he was a great philosopher. For those of us who invent our own worlds, we have a great opportunity to point to certain…[Read more]

I recently made a big breakthrough. As you may know, whether you write speculative or real-world fiction, you need to do research for your story feel authentic and rich.

But… research is hard. Particularly if all you want to read is fiction, like me. 😉

Enter audiobooks. For me at least, audiobooks take almost no commitment to plow through.…[Read more]

ATTENTION!

If you haven’t seen it, I made a post about some changes to the forum and guilds. They’re not that big really and I think they’ll improve everyone’s experience.

On a related note, I’m trying to move everybody to subscribe to new posts in the guild so I don’t have to tag everybody each time I make a post. To do this, go to New Wessex.…[Read more]

I’ve been thinking recently about something that’s never caught my attention before. Taboos. If I could only ask one question about a culture to learn about it, I’m tempted to think I’d ask about its taboos.

Taboos could keep a whole nation in slavery (for instance, if they think it brings bad luck to question their priests).

Or taboos can…[Read more]

Hey, SOOOO I’ve been thinking a long time about starting a blog but I’m kinda unsure about whether it’s worth it. I’ve heard good things about blogging and bad things about blogging. (And I’m also thinking “seriously, there are already like 5 million teenage girls who have blogs, goodness knows we don’t need one more!!” 😉)

I think it would be fun…[Read more]