The Suddenly Kate Show

Untitled DocumentThursday Truths!Yesterday, I finished my novel and remembered that today is Thursday Truths. Then this morning I remembered that Thursday Truths was changed slightly last week (due to the on-again-off-again nature of Tuesday rants) as Tuesdays sometimes contained truths. Do you remember? I had gone all theme-y. It was “sleep” last week.I don’t really expect you to remember, especially not when my memory is so bad, but I did again ask for prompts...again received none...but then my Twuddy the Gargoyle proffered two; Charity and Death, and seeing as I blatantly ignored her suggestions last week I am going to address one of them this week.CharityI need to add some kind of disclaimer to this which is: its not that funny and is a bit long and if you have known me for a year now then you may have heard some of this before!Lets get this show on the road.....The majority of my childhood was spent growing up in the 80’s and I consider myself very lucky, it was a g…

Today is rant or truth day and although in the past many things have irritated me it seems that today I have woken up particularly perky! Who’d a thunk it?
I had no real idea but I have a story that sort of (as in totally does not) related to the month I have had. As some may know, I have been writing a novel for NaNoWriMo this month, and it hasn’t been easy but neither has it been too hard. The quality is questionable but that’s why its just a first draft and I am nearing the end of November, the end of the novel and the end of 50,000 words. It has been a real learning curve for me as I have never written so much before, and never finished a story idea that I have had, so I guess NaNo has worked in giving me a kick up the bum, and its down to me to carry it on, with some of my own self-kicking!
I want to compare it with climbing a mountain…or rather I am going to compare it with climbing a mountain. Once I reach the end of the first draft (I see this as the mountain peak in this sc…

Untitled DocumentThis year is my first attempt at NaNoWriMo and so far it has been a pleasurable experience. I had not thought to post extracts of my progress, and be warned they are as is with no editing/rewrites etc., mainly I think because the idea for the story had come about from some flash fiction (it was to be posted in 12 parts but I decided to stop at part 10 when I chose it to use as a basis for Nano - part 1 is still avaible on the blog). My progress has been steady and I have been lucky enough to find some writers to word monger with in the evenings and at weekends and I think it would have been much harder without them. I am currently backed into a corner with the story and unsure which way to go next and have been struggling this week. I am hoping that once I get through this momentary writers freeze I will be merrily on my way.I considered writing a summary but as the story is still unfinished I will leave you with four extracts taken from page 2, 18, 27 & 36. Any f…

Sleep sleepy sleep sleepI decided to be organised this Thursday and tweeted for prompts last night. I sat back and waited for all of my loyal and devoted followers to tweet me their prompts...as time passed I continued to hit the refresh button...I have to conclude that Twitter was down for about 12 hours because I only had the two prompt suggestions and both from the one person! The prompts were: Southern CharmOmnipotenceI considered these and instead opted for an indirect prompt. The prompt came via my dear friend and comrade in the impending uprising...by dear friend I mean; I have exchanged tweets for about a week now and by comrade in the impending uprising I mean: comrade in the impendning uprising.He has been suffering from insomnia and even tweeting to me didnt help (I thought it was fail safe!) and thus I bring to you this weeks Thursday Theme (drum roll please....)SLEEPSleeping is something that I have always been very good and I would even go so far as to call it a natural…

10 Things that I have considered ranting about or writing about this morning…what can I say I’m sensitive..
1. Martin Lewis tweeted about an article he wrote in 2009 about banning Christmas presents, and he is now using the hashtag #BanXmasPresents
I have no problem with this idea and he says himself that he is talking about giving gifts to people outside the immediate family, like friends and work colleagues.
My issue (I always have one these days!) is that it is just common sense, to only buy gifts for those who you want to buy gifts for and to only spend what you can afford. I think it is patronising, but maybe it isn’t, maybe there are people out there who cannot think these thoughts for themselves and who sit at home wondering how they cope without being told the most obvious stuff by someone they don’t know (like me :p)
I guess it is something that annoys me in general about some articles like this, I despair with people who have no common sense and I grow agitated with …

I dont know where this story came from, a piece of impromptu flash fiction, maybe there is more. What do you think?

The baby opened his mouth and gave an almighty wail. He had only just entered the world and could hardly know what future he would have but he cried out as if he did. His lungs drew in great gulps of the toxic gas that filled the planets atmosphere and in less than a few seconds a mask was placed over the newborn infants small mouth and nose and the anxious parents looked on in hope that no damage had been done. It had been ruled upon for many years that all children of Isletunna were to be born on the surface and only the survivors of the blackness would be allowed to enter their haven.
The parents had born other babies that had not survived their first few breaths and they had watched as within a minute or two, the small delicate children had begun to cough and splutter as a black sludge would dribble from their mouths, their eyes would roll back in their heads and turn…