The personal site for Georgina Kamsika
The personal site for Georgina Kamsika
It’s here! The end of the Write-a-thon! I’ve kept up the pace quite well, with many new words added to our space opera. I’ve really had a chance to sink my teeth into this world and it’s blossoming into a story I’m really proud of. Thanks to the great re-working of the plot in week […]
The UK has been hit with a heatwave, so I’ve not been quite as motivated as getting words down. That didn’t stop me from working on our space opera, I just worked earlier in the morning and later in the evenings. I’ve focused on a slightly different POV character and really tried to get into […]
I’ve really dug into our space opera this week. Thanks to our plot brainstorm last week, I’ve had a lot of new scenes to add to our early draft. Interestingly, it’s a subplot I’d always wanted to do when I originally had the idea for the novel that had dropped to the wayside. Now it’s […]
Last week I mentioned that there might be some changes after Luke attended his novel workshop. I was right, he had some great ideas and new tools which we applied to our space opera. We knew we had a great overall idea for a trilogy with a huge overall arc but hadn’t quite nailed down […]
For Week Two I’ve been busying digging into our space opera as mentioned last week. I’m really happy with the main outline of the novel, but I’m excited to include any new ideas Luke might have after his two-week stint at the CSSF SF Novel Writers Workshop. Because of that, I’ve not set anything too […]
Work-In-Progress Name: Phoenix Reborn The Cursed Heir Genre: Space opera YA Fantasy Week One Status: Edited PR to chapter 10. Week Two Status: Edited PR to chapter 15. Week Three Status: Edited The Cursed Heir. Week Four Progress: So my quick polish of The Cursed Heir last week slipped over into this week. It’s still not […]
Work-In-Progress Name: Phoenix Reborn The Cursed Heir Genre: Space opera YA Fantasy Week One Status: Edited PR to chapter 10. Week Two Status: Edited PR to chapter 15. Week Three Progress: So this week I was busy giving my YA a quick final polish before sharing it with my Clarion West classmates for feedback next weekend. […]
Work-In-Progress Name: Phoenix Reborn Genre: Space opera Week One Status: Edited to chapter 10. Week Two Progress: I worked on chapters 11 through to 15. It might seem slower than last week but chapters 1 to 3 were pretty polished up anyway, so this is around the same amount of work. Possibly more, in fact, as […]
[column size=one_half position=first ] [/column] [column size=one_half position=last ] Work-In-Progress Name: Phoenix Reborn Genre: Space opera Starting Status: Super loose first draft of the first two-thirds of the novel is done*. My goal for the six week write-a-thon is to fix all the [FIX THIS HERE] notes and get the novel ready to send to […]
Clarion West is a six-week writing workshop, primarily focusing on science fiction and fantasy. Each week has a new instructor who works as either a writer, an editor, or both. Every year eighteen lucky students are accepted for the programme. In early 2012, I got a phone call late on a Saturday night with a […]
