This is where you'll find posts about what I'm working on, my thoughts and discoveries on the craft, and some personal reflections. My hope is you'll read something helpful for your own writing life, or that you will at least be mildly entertained by mine. If you want to hear about a specific topic, drop me a line at hello@amanakatora.com
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Writing retreats changed my image of how a writer works There are a lot of benefits you can find as a writer when you are willing to try writing with the support of a writing community. Many people seem to think that writing is a creative art done in isolation. Growing up, I had that […]
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Wow. You’ve found your way to my very first blog post here! Thanks, and I suppose that means you might want to know more about me. Well, okay… If you are anything like me when it comes to this stuff, it feels really hard to write about myself. Whether it’s a resume update, a simple […]
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Congratulations! You’ve just decided you’re going to be a fiction writer! You know there is nothing more satisfying than spinning up a world, developing unique characters to move around in it, and throwing bonkers things at them to see what happens. We get to be a god, and it’s pretty great. But now that you’ve […]
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Book review for American Royalty by Tracey Livesay I try to read a good variety of non-fiction, children’s, and fiction with genre fiction each year, and summer always seems to be a great time to dig into my Romance TBR pile. Maybe it’s the heat that puts me in the mood? 😉 My most recent […]
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A while ago, I had a conversation with some friends about the most outrageous Romance characters we’ve ever encountered. In addition to mentioning dinosaurs and viruses, we started talking about the types of characters we recently discovered we enjoyed reading about. I, of course, mentioned I like vampires. (Vampires are very on-brand for me.) Someone […]
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