by KimBoo York | Apr 11, 2021 | Writing, Ponderings
I am not a perfectionist. That is true, despite appearances! I learned a long time ago, back when I was reporter for a regional news magazine, that “perfection never gets printed.” We had deadlines and even if a story wasn’t perfect, it still had to be typeset and...
by KimBoo York | Feb 1, 2020 | Writing, Ponderings
What makes a popular story? I don’t mean a great one, although many are both, but rather a story where the setting, the characters, the events become legends? Actually, I think my question is: what makes a legendary story? I wonder about this a lot because that is the...
by KimBoo York | Dec 25, 2019 | Life and all That, Writing
My M/M/F book Wolves of Harmony Heights was written back in 2015/2016, and has zilch to do with my recent (as of late 2019) dive into Chinese webnovels and dramas. But as this dive keeps getting deeper, I realized that in writing that book I was searching for novel...
by KimBoo York | Feb 11, 2018 | Writing, Ponderings
Back in 2010 or so, I wrote a book I call Grieving Futures detailing the slow collapse of my family and my emergence from that as an adult orphan. It’s a painful book and in retrospect I’d write it very differently, if I were writing it today. But it is...
by KimBoo York | Feb 11, 2017 | Life and all That, Writing
This entry is part [part not set] of 130 in the series Blog-a-Day2016If you’ve been keeping up with my blog at all (I mean, who hasn’t, amirite?!?!?) then you’ve been keeping up with my “blog a day for a year” posts, right up until there...
by KimBoo York | Jan 2, 2017 | Life and all That, Writing
This entry is part [part not set] of 130 in the series Blog-a-Day2016Now that the “advent” series is over and the new year is in full effect, I’m moving on to putting plans in motion. I’m not big on making resolutions as I feel those have been,...
