Kes R. Rooks

Blood and Thorns as made it onto the ONC shortlist! Thank you so much to everyone who has read and voted, it means so much to me ❤️

Phew! Just submitted 'Blood & Thorns' to the ONC round 3! Thank you to everyone who has read and voted, and supported me through this. Writing a high fantasy story in a novella format was no easy feat, but I'm really pleased with how the story came together. Fingers crossed and best of luck to everyone who has made it this far in the contest!

Made it through Round 2 of this year's ONC!!! Thank you to everyone who has read and voted so far. Fingers crossed, I can get this story finished by the deadline.

Hey, hope you’re doing okay :) just want to say that Of Cinders and Starlight is a really good book and I hope to see it again on here, or on a shelf :) 

I finally downloaded Grammarly and am wondering why I didn't do so sooner. It's a great writing tool for the editing process.

Hey,wow just realised has a sequel . I cant wait to read it

I've been participating in NaNoWriMo this year and man am I really challenging myself. It's often hard for me to find motivation when writing. Some days the inspiration is nonstop, while others, I dread thinking of putting my hands to a keyboard. This month I've really been pushing myself to move past that self-doubt and reluctance and write at least 1,000 words a day. It's hard for me to remind myself that it's a first draft, it's not supposed to be pretty, just get the basic idea out and work on fixing it up later. I think this will really help strengthen me as I continue to grow as a writer and I can't wait to see what the end result will be.

Because my life isn't busy enough, I've decided to challenge myself and participate in NaNoWriMo, this year. I've heard a lot about it and am excited to try something new and challenge my writing skills. I hope I turn out something worth sharing by the end of November —fingers crossed. I don't want to share too much about the project but I will say that it is another sci-fi retelling of a classic fairytale. Care to guess which one? Leave your guesses in the comments!

October has been and will continue to be a very busy month for me. I'm doing edits to manuscripts, trying to keep up with Inktober prompts to keep those artistic juices flowing and I'll be heading to California at the end of the month. It doesn't look like I'll have time for Halloween Vault this year but you can check out my collection of entries from last year and the year prior on my profile. As always your support is more appreciated by me than I can ever express. Thanks for keeping me inspired even when I feel discouraged in my writing journey. <3

It's that time of the year again! Halloween Vault IV is officially open; unfortunately I've got a lot on my plate at the moment so I don't know that I will be able to participate this year, but I'm going to try to get a couple of prompts submitted before the month is over.