The Suddenly Kate Show

Welcome once again to my blog, as the tagline says above, its where I get to be the star kinda!

I started writing this post last week, oh that's not true, I started thinking about writing this post last week.  I noted down a few ideas yesterday and then last night I wrote it in my head...it was a full on dramatisation of the last year and as soon as I had played it out in my mind, I rolled my eyes and said "nah!".

So here I am on this fine afternoon after spending all morning staring at the screen and thinking how best to sum up 2012. I wasn't sure if I should talk about the changes/developments on the blog or the changes/developments in my life - it was a toss up between the two and the least boring one won out!

So...here it is...the life of my blog in 2012...

I started this blog on 24th February 2012 for the sole purpose of discovering new and interesting blogs. I already had a stitchy blog where I posted photo's of my sewing and crafts and had made several fri…

I fancied a little break from the fun and frolics of my christmas rom-com with Ryan and Sarah and thought I would enter a short story in the Bad Santa Blog Hop 2012. There is a link at the bottom to all the other entrants or alternatively just click on the link above. I'd be happy for any feedback and hope you enjoy it.

Whatever you do this Christmas, be nice!
Santa sat on the sleigh and pulled the list from his inside pocket. He had checked it once already but he needed to be sure. There in black and white was the name of the child who lived at this address and in large bold lettering beside it was stamped 'NAUGHTY'. He shoved the list back into his pocket and heaved himself out of the sleigh. He clambered onto the chimney stack and peered down the chute, sighing he tightened his belt, pulled up his boots and swung a leg over. After 700 years of doing this it was beginning to get old, one of the few things that was, he hadn't asked to be Santa and it was only since he…

Hello,

I still have an exchange to arrive but whilst I was waiting I received the most wonderful christmas ornament

Hello,

So I received another exchange from the lovely Nia (I hope hers has arrived too) and have taken another picture of an exchange piece I didnt post before.
If any of you are like me and love a christmas story and a good rom-com then feel free to pop over to my other blog (see sidebar) and check out the Christmas Series that I am writing. The last instalment will be posted on Christmas Eve. Its very casual writing, and purely for fun!

It is a tale about a couple, Ryan and Sarah, and Ryan wants to propose to Sarah in the most romantic way he can. So he decides to build up to the proposal (an although they arent technically the real 12 days of Christmas) he decides to give her gifts on each of the twelve days leading up to Christmas day. He has good intentions that just don't seem to go to plan.

So, without anymore waffling from me...






I think I have one more left...I have enjoyed it so much but also learnt that I need to plan better! If I do this next year then I will start stitchin…

Hello...remember me?

I had agreed a while ago to do 6 christmas exchanges and assumed rather naively that I would have time to do this.

What I didnt count on was spending November writing my first ever novel, or at least the first draft of it at 50k words, and I never had as much time as I had hoped.

The novel is a crime thriller/murder mystery and is something completely unexpected. It is written from the viewpoint of two of the characters, they are linked in some way (no spoliers!) and the story begins after an event, her narrative tells of what happened before the event and his from the event moving forward. I hope it has a lot of surprises and twists and keeps the readers attention but I'm not sure just yet.

I did stitch ornaments for my exchanges, and I liked how they turned out but I also feel immense guilt for not making them all different designs, I hope that the recipients did not mind as it was a pattern that I really liked. The guilt was too much and I knitted each a stocki…

Earlier in the week I posted some questions for ‘The Next Big Thing’ and offered the questions out to three writers that I follow on Twitter, one a poet, one a blogger and one a writer of books. The poet replied and answered the questions, and so I am using this opportunity as an introducing slot, and maybe every Friday I will post about one of my followers instead of #FF, what do you think?

Anyway, enough about MEEEEEEEEEEEEEE, let me introduce you to….

LYNN GERRARD



A little background on how I came to discover her and her talents…

If you have read a single post on this blog you will know that Twitter has been a source of some amazingly talented, intelligent, funny, kind and supportive people….she isn’t one of them! Ha! Who am I kidding? She definitely is.

We share a silly sense of humour and she more than tolerates my puns and ramblings and I am glad we met (in the twitter sense). I wrote a bad poem a while back based on our desire to discover the name of a brand of crisp manufactu…

Its Tuesday Truths!

Are you ready?

I need a prompt, I am opting for the next tweet I read that mentions moi...
Ok, that failed...miserably..then I thought what about Hats...then I thought maybe not..then I thought what about...can you see a pattern?

Eventually, someone took pity on me and suggested...

'HOLLOW'

I'm hoping that it wasnt the first thought that came to mind when he thought of me! Especially as I am generally full of it!

So...I left my thinking cap at home but have this lovely santa hat!

Hollow...hollow...hollow...

Its quite tricky to think clearly whilst listening to 'I'm Sorry I havent a clue' (a very funny comedy radio panel show)...but I am going to give it a try, I am sat hear with my brow creased with concentration, every muscle in my face tensed and impenetrable, I can hear myself breathing and feel my pulse throbbing in my temple...

Yeah, I have nothing!

I am in such a perky mood today that the only thought echoing around my mind is…

Its been a long time since I participated in Five Sentence Fiction (see sidebar) but today is the day. The prompt is Time...

With each tick of the clock she grew more anxious and her composure threatened to falter. It had been almost 24 hours since her daughter had been home. The police had said they could do nothing for 24 hours and she had sat poised on the edge of the sofa, phone in hand, ready to call the police as soon as that last second ticked by. Her mind had been trying to imagine every possible scenario and she had built a blockade to prevent her from imagining the worst. With 15 minutes left until she could call again, the doorbell rang, she smiled and breathed a sigh of relief as she rushed to the door and flung it open already mentally preparing the lecture she would give her daughter, what she never expected was to see two police officers standing there.

This morning I had a wonderful surprise, I had been tagged by the lovely and talented Annalisa Crawford, unbeknownst to me there us a meme circulating blogland (thats how long I was out of the loop with Nano). Its called 'U Got the Look'. As Annalisa says 'if you haven't seen this meme yet, you track down the first mention of the word 'look' in your WIP and then post the paragraph(s) surrounding it'.

I follow Annalisa on Twitter (and she me) and somewhere around early October the topic of NaNoWriMo came up I remember suggesting that if she was going to do it then I would! So I hold her partially to blame for my inane ramblings that have become an extremely rough draft of a novel.

Here is the first occurance of the word 'look' in my novel (all is subject to change of course!)

Rob had been unable to sleep, he was like a kid at Christmas, he had been up since dawn getting ready for work.The preparation that had gone into it had been done with military p…