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The Blue Honor Vlog #55

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Welcome back for another installment of The Blue Honor Vlog. Subscribe to my channel on YouTube. As a subscriber, you’ll get episodes of Shagbottom Theater,  updates from the blog, and watch the process of making book trailers. And! You’ll be first in line to see it all. Once a video is ready, it’s uploaded, and you don’t have to wait for it to come out on the blog or even in the newsletter. Let’s get started!

I’m pretty sure that I’ve already mentioned on my blog, every time this month comes around, that this is my favorite time of year. If you’ve seen the art I have created in this annual period, you get a sense of the nostalgia and joy. Every year, I try to make it memorable for those around me in positive ways. Last year (2019), I took my daughter trick or treating dressed as the Powerpuff Girls (her auntie tagged along as Buttercup, as I took up Blossom, and Katie was Bubbles). We didn’t buy costumes, either. We built them from real clothes. So, when Katie went to school afterward wearing the dress, she was instantly recognized as Bubbles. Pig tails were the icing on the cake.

Some time in September, the fall festivities get underway. Usually apple picking kicks it off. Of course, there is baking, and costume planning (which has probably been underway since last October). When you build your costumes on a budget from real clothing, it can take a while to get everything together. This year, however, Katie will be Scooby-Doo, which is easy for planning her outfit. That said, that means Mama is Daphne (red hair–get it?). I have had the perfect shoes since last winter. Getting the dress and applying the right touches came next: that lime scarf, the headband, and wondering if she wore earrings ever…

Daphne is pretty easy to put together, but these vlogs are getting harder to complete with all my work and parenting responsibilities! I promise that I will persevere. I talk here about my love of October, not just Halloween costumes.

K. Williams dressed as Daphne Blake from Scooby-Doo
K. Williams dressed as Daphne Blake from Scooby-Doo
Fionn dressed as Shaggy Rogers
K. Williams child dressed as Scooby-Doo
K. Williams dressed as Daphne Blake from Scooby-Doo
Image of K.Williams and the Shadow Soul Book, second image of cast of table reading of the shadow soul
Table Reading of The Shadow Soul at Imagine This Women’s Film Festival.

Other Episodes From 2020:

  1. Scheduling Writing Time.
  2. Giving Back.
  3. Organizing Your Research.
  4. What Do You Miss Most About When You First Started Writing?
  5. The 50th Episode: Dealing with Anxiety and Depression.
  6. Where do you come from?
  7. A Reading From The Lucent Rise.
  8. Motherhood and The Writing Career.
  9. OP-DEC: Operation Deceit, A Reading.

Blue Honor Vlog Archive

(Scroll below the december video for the links to the episodes for the year).

Prior to January 2018
Episodes from 2018
Episodes from 2019

The Blue Honor Vlog #54

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Welcome back for another installment of The Blue Honor Vlog. Subscribe to my channel on YouTube. As a subscriber, you’ll get episodes of Shagbottom Theater,  updates from the blog, and watch the process of making book trailers. And! You’ll be first in line to see it all. Once a video is ready, it’s uploaded, and you don’t have to wait for it to come out on the blog or even in the newsletter. Let’s get started!

The Sacramento International Film Festival – American Screenwriting Conference

In March, I got the great news that my adaptation of OP-DEC was an official selection for the Sacramento International Film Festival – American Screenwriting Conference. This is the first competition the script entered, following its creation as the final project in my master’s studies. I am still quite excited about it. The pandemic threatened this moment by shutting down every event that brought people together. In the subsequent months, SIFF and many other festivals decided to go virtual. This also saved my second good news of the year:

Imagine This Women’s International Film Festival

I can’t express how excited I am to experience this in a blog, but I can read you an excerpt from OP-DEC! Enjoy the collection of art I created to promote the book as I read a chilling excerpt from this best selling story.

Trigger Warning: Themes of domestic violence and family based abused are ahead. War time is difficult for the most vulnerable among our society, as it is in the times of a pandemic. To learn more about domestic abuse/violence, go here, when it’s safe to do so: Rainn.org.

Other Episodes From 2020:

  1. Scheduling Writing Time.
  2. Giving Back.
  3. Organizing Your Research.
  4. What Do You Miss Most About When You First Started Writing?
  5. The 50th Episode: Dealing with Anxiety and Depression.
  6. Where do you come from?
  7. A Reading From The Lucent Rise.
  8. Motherhood and Writing.

Blue Honor Vlog Archive

(Scroll below the december video for the links to the episodes for the year).

Prior to January 2018
Episodes from 2018
Episodes from 2019

The Blue Honor Vlog #53

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Welcome back for another installment of The Blue Honor Vlog. Subscribe to my channel on YouTube. As a subscriber, you’ll get episodes of Shagbottom Theater,  updates from the blog, and watch the process of making book trailers. And! You’ll be first in line to see it all. Once a video is ready, it’s uploaded, and you don’t have to wait for it to come out on the blog or even in the newsletter. Let’s get started!

Motherhood changes a lot of things, some of which you can’t account for until you’re in the middle of it. Each family is different; every other, every child. Becoming a single mom by choice has changed my life in ways I had only hoped. Not only do I have a solid purpose to my days, but I find myself regaining the wonder that once inspired me to become a writer, along with a desire for the nostalgic.

The only thing I wish I could change is being able to share all of the things that shaped me in my childhood with my daughter. Time, however, has brought changes that can’t be overcome. I talk about those things and the unexpected ways raising a child is renewing my inspiration. Motherhood and the writing career:

Other Episodes From 2020:

  1. Scheduling Writing Time.
  2. Giving Back.
  3. Organizing Your Research.
  4. What Do You Miss Most About When You First Started Writing?
  5. The 50th Episode: Dealing with Anxiety and Depression.
  6. Where do you come from?
  7. A Reading From The Lucent Rise.

Blue Honor Vlog Archive

(Scroll below the december video for the links to the episodes for the year).

Prior to January 2018
Episodes from 2018
Episodes from 2019

The Blue Honor Vlog #52

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Welcome back for another installment of The Blue Honor Vlog. Subscribe to my channel on YouTube. As a subscriber, you’ll get episodes of Shagbottom Theater,  updates from the blog, and watch the process of making book trailers. And! You’ll be first in line to see it all. Once a video is ready, it’s uploaded, and you don’t have to wait for it to come out on the blog or even in the newsletter. Let’s get started!

Get ready! This episode is a reading from the final book of The Trailokya Trilogy series: The Lucent Rise. When I taped this vlog it was early Spring, and wasn’t sure if the book would be out yet. Be warned, there are spoilers ahead for those who haven’t caught up. (Hurry up!)

I’m super excited to bring this to you at last. I’ve been sitting on it for years! When I wrote the trilogy, I completed them together, leaving the editing that would occur for each when the time of publication came around. That would allow me to correct errors and make additions I felt were still necessary to the story. It’s a smart move, because the errors we find in our work can take a minute to realize. Letting it set aside for a time helps.

I’m happy to report, however, I didn’t find any errors. That’s not to say that readers won’t find things they can’t negotiate for their own reasons, but that’s ok because they are allowed their opinions. Without another hesitation, let’s check out the reading…

Other Episodes From 2020:

  1. Scheduling Writing Time.
  2. Giving Back.
  3. Organizing Your Research.
  4. What Do You Miss Most About When You First Started Writing?
  5. The 50th Episode: Dealing with Anxiety and Depression.
  6. Where do you come from?

Blue Honor Vlog Archive

(Scroll below the december video for the links to the episodes for the year).

Prior to January 2018
Episodes from 2018
Episodes from 2019

The Blue Honor Vlog #51

By Leave a Comment

Welcome back for another installment of The Blue Honor Vlog. Subscribe to my channel on YouTube. As a subscriber, you’ll get episodes of Shagbottom Theater,  updates from the blog, and watch the process of making book trailers. And! You’ll be first in line to see it all. Once a video is ready, it’s uploaded, and you don’t have to wait for it to come out on the blog or even in the newsletter. Let’s get started!

On this episode, I talk about where I’m from. Believe it or not, this taping gave me a bit of trouble. I’m not talking about the usual gaffes and interruptions either. You can always tell if I hate a question by how long I drag my feet to get to the taping. This one took me nearly the month to pin down. I had no answer and I really wasn’t excited to give one either.

After about seven to ten takes, I settled on doing it the next day, come hell or high water. I had to get it done before the month ended. At least those takes helped me work my answer out better–after verbal diarrhea, off camera noise, and Fionn needing to get outside. I guess it wasn’t bad to just go off and say a whole bunch of things. Those videos are now deleted, but I was able to gel what I needed to say in a much better video that was a heck of lot more focused.

Seriously, sometimes I get going. I didn’t want to do that this time. Honestly, I don’t script these. I just talk. You get raw, honest answers. This is still pretty raw and honest, but it’s not six blocks over from the point.

Well, I just let you watch, and find out where I’m from…

Other Episodes From 2020:

  1. Scheduling Writing Time.
  2. Giving Back.
  3. Organizing Your Research.
  4. What Do You Miss Most About When You First Started Writing?
  5. The 50th Episode: Dealing with Anxiety and Depression.

Blue Honor Vlog Archive

(Scroll below the december video for the links to the episodes for the year).

Prior to January 2018
Episodes from 2018
Episodes from 2019

Favorite Quotes:

“Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.” ― Albert Einstein

“If you want to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency and vibration.” ― Nikola Tesla

“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.” ― Jane Austen

"I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life’s a bitch. You’ve got to go out and kick ass." — Maya Angelou

“Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.” ― Winston S. Churchill

“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.” ― Anais Nin

“A strong woman understands that the gifts such as logic, decisiveness, and strength are just as feminine as intuition and emotional connection. She values and uses all of her gifts.” ― Nancy Rathburn

“The day science begins to study non-physical phenomena, it will make more progress in one decade than in all the previous centuries of its existence.” ― Nikola Tesla

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