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I use this blogspace for:

✔prewriting;

✔creating lists of links to share on social media; and

✔documenting random thoughts.

Since I change my mind quite a bit, this whole space feels volatile and ranty. But I like it anyway!

Between April 18 and April 19, I’m writing 1 million words; or that’s the goal, anyway.

Here’s how I do it:

✔ 150K sci-fi novel

✔ 125K Kourtnie.net blog

✔ 100K sci-fantasy novel

✔ 90K autism blog

✔ 80K YA fantasy novel

✔ 70K cat blog

✔ 60K urban fantasy romance novel

✔ 50K travel blog

✔ 40K road rage novella

✔ 35K gardening blog

✔ 32K social media reflection collection

✔30K SNES fanfic novella

✔ 25K projects blog

✔ 23K FFIV fanfic novella

✔ 20K epic cat poem

✔ 17K 3.5e D&D blog

✔ 15K historical fic short story collection

✔ 13K nostalgia blog

✔ 10K sci-fi short story collection

✔ 7K vocabulary poetry collection

✔ 5K oceanic poetry collection

✔ 3K smiles poetry collection

My name’s Kourtnie McKenzie-Williams.

I live with 7 cats, 2 birds, dozens of fish, and a husband.

Since I write on Wattpad for free, I pay the bills by teaching at local colleges. But even if my writing paid the bills, I’d want to continue teaching at local colleges. I learn as much from my students as they learn from me. They’re wonderful human beings.

I’m writing a million words in 2018-19 so I can build an audience to self-publish my work. I’ll always offer some of my writing on Wattpad for free, because I love belonging to a community of readers and writers; but I’d also like to get y’all addicted enough to buy sequels.

I’m learning how to garden and can food. I may or may not be preparing for worst-case scenario 2030.

…I’m not sure what else you’d like to know.

I like penguins.

Is it awkward yet?

I laugh like a five-year-old at farts.