Author Archives: Katherine J. Scott

About Katherine J. Scott

Welcome to my website and blog. I am a writer and librarian interested in historical fiction. My works in progress include a trilogy about a stonemason from Elizabethan England and a novel loosely based on the Hunt of the Unicorn Tapestries housed at the Cloisters in New York.

Thoughts on the writing process

The past few weeks I have been coming to terms with my writing style. For me, writing looks an awful lot like playing FreeCell or Mahjong, both of which sit on my shortcuts bar and get used almost daily. There … Continue reading

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Your brain on books: research on reading

I write a lot about reading on this blog. As a reader, writer, and librarian I spend a lot of time around the written word in one form or another. In my work as a librarian, I encourage kids to … Continue reading

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The Books of Childhood

When my parents cleaned out the house that had been their home for 30 years and moved across the country to be close to grandchildren and far from snow, they brought with them several boxes of my old belongings that … Continue reading

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It’s NaNoWriMo Time!

If you are not familiar with the creative writing world, you may not know that November is National Novel Writing Month, or NaNoWriMo. Thousands of new and experienced writers will challenge themselves to write a 50,000 word novel in a … Continue reading

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WIP Update

So, how’s the book coming? My Work-in-Progress is part one of a planned trilogy. I have a rough draft completed and so much research it boggles the mind. But I’m not happy with the story. I started out telling one … Continue reading

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