Make this one of my top quotes if I miraculously become famous one day. (A gal can dream, right?) There is a difference between making a mistake and giving in to fate. Now, I'm not saying that all of our lives are run purely by destiny and we have no free will or say in …
Author: Kari Lynn M
Hey there! I'm Kari, a self-published author/independent artist/amateur cake decorator/freelance writer and creator with a dream. The dream of sharing stories with as many people I can possibly reach... and having an abundant supply of white chocolate truffles.
And that's pretty much me!
Burn out.
A few years ago, my sister had this dog. It was a toy yorkie and whenever he got mad or frustrated or didn't want to go outside he would do this cute little thing where he'd scratch his claws against the carpet and do this moonwalk kind of thing. It's super hard to explain in …
Skepticism on “””Wattpad’s new competitor”””
Anyone here heard of Radish Fiction? Yeah, me neither. Apparently, though, Radish is the "newest competitor to Wattpad" for both online readers and writers. And, if you can't already tell, I'm not so sure I'm down with that. Anyway, though, I heard about this new thing through... actually, I don't remember now, but that doesn't …
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I wrote my first haiku!
Go me, right?! So, remember how I said that I started taking a poetry class? Well, it's been going really well so far, and (get this) I recently got the chance to learn about the topic of Japanese haiku! Anyway, though... I didn't really know much about haiku, other than it just existed, until now. So, …
Once Upon a Dream…
Oh, dreams. Daydreaming, deep REM sleep dreaming, dreams of becoming a famous novelist... We all have them, right? But... how often do we actually write about those dreams? Or how often... should we write about them? We all know (or at least I know) that Stephanie Meyer's Twilight series actually came to be after she …
The weird fun game I played as a kid!
So here's the most random story I just remembered. Well, I mean, it's not really a "story"... but, whatever, it's close enough. So... here's where it starts, I guess. My best friend and I, circa 9 years old, are bored out of our minds on a Saturday afternoon. We're sitting on the floor of my …
Prompt time: What Would You Shoplift?
Hey y'all, I'm back today with... a writing prompt! From my book, of course. So, here's the prompt I randomly decided to pick out for today. What would you shoplift? It made me think of The Purge for some reason, I don't know. Anyway, here's just what I wrote 'in response'! It's eleven fifty-seven, …
A poem preview…
Hey y'all, remember when I started that poetry book on Wattpad and promised to post occasional special sneak peaks of some of my work here? Well, today's one of those days. Here's a cute little poem I like to call "Main and Eighth", being published in Holding onto Stars tomorrow! I sat down yesterday At …
Two Black Cadillacs
Song analysis time! So, today I'm bringing you all solid proof that songs can tell solid stories. And, in honor of the CMT Awards that showed last night, Two Black Cadillacs by Carrie Underwood is my proof. Now, the lyrics for this piece are pretty straightforward and... well, they really do tell a story, so I'm …
How I do story descriptions
Okay, so I started this post out a sort of different route the other day... but now I'm scrapping it and reworking and rewording. Why? Well, here's the thing. Personally, I hate writing story descriptions. It's like... I have to summarize my entire 80k word novel into just a paragraph or two that makes you …
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