Author Archives: Author, Kim Knight
Question For All Writers: What’s Your Creative Time? What’s Your Routine? #writerslife #amwriting
I’m fed, watered and ready to spend the whole evening tapping away until the early hours tonight. It’s almost 10.00p.m London time, a random thought popped into my head as the creative bug bit me this evening. I’ve not pulled up my second romance novella I’m working on in five whole days! *cringe*. My editor kicked me up the ass today, she’s excited to read it. Tonight I’ve got a serious case of creativity, not to mention withdrawal symptoms.
It made me wonder, when do other writers get bitten by the creative bug? What’s your most creative hour of the day? I wonder what other writers do as part of their “routine” for writing? Do they write every day? Every other day? Once a week … what? So I’m asking you all, tell me I’m really interested. Leave me a comment let’s talk.
Personally, being a mum I write in the evening always. This is not a bad thing far from it, it suits me as this is when I naturally find I’m in the mood, and I have more creativity then. My creative hours are between 9:00p.m-3:00a.m. Or maybe I think I have more creativity as the house is damn quiet! Peace at last!
Five whole days away from a manuscript is a long time for me. I do tend to try to write everyday. I’ll be real honest, the last couple of weeks I’ve not. Mainly as I’ve been tired (nothing new there then), I’ve been reading a lot (like always). The last few books I’ve read have really gripped me. They were hard to put down, I’ve passed up writing to read. I started reading the first novel of one of this month’s Meet The Author featured authors, you’ll find out who on the 25th. I also want to read the other featured author’s work too.
Anyway, here’s my routine what’s yours like?
- Try to write every day. Is this what you do?
- Eat dinner, make a coffee, wash my face and turn on the radio. I normally listen to some easy going radio stations, that play all genres of music. We have some great ones in the UK. Or if I’m completely behind and need to knock out some serious word count… I pull out the classical piano playlist, to get in the zone classical music really focuses me.
- Sit at the laptop, pull up the manuscript. Glance over it, sip coffee. Check my phone, check Facebook, check e-mail.
- Pull up YouTube or some distraction on the internet, mess around for about a good half an hour … or longer *pulls a face*.
- Set to work.
Tell me what is your routine? I’m keen to know. And do you get straight to work or do you mess around before you actually type??… don’t lie to me now, be honest.
I better get to work as right now, typing this post, I’m on step four of the above… distraction 🙂
Share your experiences!
Vote For Wk #5’s Writing Prompt: It’s Femme Fatale Week! – Song Lyrics That Rock #kdsuspense #amwriting
Femme Fatale week
Do you like music? I love music. Always have, and I always will. I grew up with it, I think I get it from my Mum. I dance to it, fall asleep to it, drive to it, write to it, cook to it. There’s not a lot I do without music. Didi from what I’ve learned also has a big thing for music too. For week five we’re having fun, we’ve put together eight well known iconic Femme Fatale singers. Big voices, great dance moves and lyrics, the talent is endless. Dead or alive their music and lyrics live on. This week, our challenge ( you included) is to creatively write a short story, using a lyric from one of their songs, that you all vote for. Join us and write a story of your own. This is a fun week.
Who will it be? Look at the lyrics on the poll below and decide.
Note: The song’s theme is no influence on the type/genre of story we create, we’ll write as we feel not focusing on the actual type of song. Just using the lyric to be creative. Voting will close this Friday. Find out more about our weekly writing challenges / read previous week’s stories here.
Release Party
Wk 4, Prompt: “When he ran his hands up my thighs I…” #kdsuspense #romance
Just beautiful in every way. Enjoy this week’s romance themed writing prompt short story,even I as one of the authors shed a tear. Head over to Didi’s page.
Reflection: What I write. #writerslife #amwriting
As much as I love to write fast paced, engaging and gripping stories. With strong characters and even some very dark unsavoury ones. When it comes down to it, I’ll always be a romance writer at heart. My stories will always comeback to this no matter how gritty , controversial or full of drama they may get.
Yes I’ve knocked out some gritty characters in crime, and physiological themed stories as part of the weekly challenges for Kim and Didi’s Suspenseful Collection. And I’ve started to write a novel with this theme too! But this week as writers we have both put out such a different feel. So different the story moved me to actual tears I just read it back to myself. I can’t recall I time I’ve actually been moved to tears, by something I partly wrote 🙂
Maybe it was the music, I dunno? Unintentionally at the moment I have Magic FM on the radio. If you’re not from the UK, you might not know that this station plays some of the most relaxing feel good songs. I love to write with it in the background to focus. Around this time in the evening 9:00 p.m it gets a little soppy! It’s called ” Mellow Magic.” This song came on, I actually shed a tear (or a few) while reading the story. Good ol’ Whitney! It fits the story so well.
As I said earlier on today it’s a real close call between week four, and week one as my favourite story so far. I loved creating both pieces of fiction. As a romance author, I sincerely hope you enjoy what Didi and I came up with. And I thank her openly for the decision (not mine) to do a romance theme week. Because love really does concur all.
Now There’s An Idea? Should We Do It? #kdsuspense #amwriting
It seems Lisa Vanicilli is a very popular woman indeed. Don’t be afraid to like her! We love her. We’ve had great feedback, and I’ve heard more than once ” you and Didi should write part #2 of this story.” Should we do it?? Should we see what happens now that someone finally managed to crack the tough, strong first female serial killer from New York for a confession, after ten whole years. All Tiffany had to do was walk in with her killer high heels and short skirt, Lisa was like putty LOL. Of course we will keep it engaging and raw.
What happens to Lisa, does she confess all about her murderous career on the mean streets of New York? Is she executed early?
Does Tiffany’s career fly now she has a confession?
Oh the suspense!
Read part one of the story here
Give us a vote below!
The Big Reveal: WHO IS AUTHOR A & WHO IS AUTHOR B FOR WK 1-3’S STORIES?? …. #kdsuspense #amwriting
Evening guys,
Both Didi and I have had some positive feedback from readers, about our stories. We are also both LOVING working together on them each week, it’s a shock to us to see where our story will end up, if you’re author A, as well as a shock to see what will land in your inbox to finish writing if you’re author B. Personally, I like both roles A and B I have no preference. What’s the hardest thing about working with Didi? …. Stopping writing! No matter if I’m A or B . We have both knocked out 90,000 odd word novels ,and it’s hard to put a lid on it once we’re in the groove! We Skyped about this, then guess what we went over the word limit each again lols.. ah well. Sooooooooooooo I guess by now some of you want to know who is author A and who is author B, for the first three stories we have done. Okay your wish is our command, did you guess right…. take a look.
Week 1: It Was The First Time I Killed A Man. click here to read a steamy 18+ historical bit of crime fiction about a woman on death row.
Author A: 
Author B: 
Yep I whipped up that crazy ass woman Lisa Vanicilli and handed her to my partner in crime to see what she’d do. Didi did not fail me! She aced the ending so well. And you know what I loved writing Lisa. She’s nuts! This is my favourite story so far. That said, this week’s one for Tuesday maybe a close call. I heard through the grape vine a few of of you thought it may have been Didi as author A. Humm maybe, as the main character is a blonde female from the USA…. “They say we write what we know “ well I’m from London, my accent is nothing like the New York, Brooklyn accent that I love so much that we both tried to portray while writing. And I could not be more far removed from the main female myself as a woman, but we did tell you we’re skilled at adapting our writing styles. We’ll write anyone, any age, race, gender, sexuality we’ll try to step into anyone’s shoes.
My First Reaction When I Read Didi’s Ending For This Story:
“Holy sh*it Didi is even more nuts than me in her character development, Lisa is crazy lols. Then I read real close again about two or three times and was like , hey you can’t even tell there was a change of writer. This is freaky it’s like one of us knocked out that story on our own.
Week Two: Every Time I Hear That Voice From The Basement: Click here to read. A psychological suspenseful story.
Author A:
Author B:
My First Reaction When This Story Landed In My Inbox:
When Didi sent me over the story, in her email she was like: ” I gatta real dochebag for ya Kim. Can’t wait to see what you do with him.” I read the email and laughed, but never expected what I read. I loved it.
When I finished reading I was like..What a freak he is! Didi can step into the shoes of anyone, she likes to write ’em crazy all right. I had so much fun with this story as I zoned in the the “disturbed” personality our main man has. The bleach part with his wife Jolene was a creative fluke. It just came to me while I was writing, focusing on his OCD ways. In fact this story was a real “fly by the seat of my pants story”. And as many of you know, I’m not “a panster” as a writer I like to plot my outline, then fill in with creativity as I write, I always have a direction. With this one I just sat behind the laptop and tried to craft a character that was true to what Didi whipped up, I had no direction. I think, this story was the most fun to write for me as I stepped into the shoes of a very ill man. I dropped in the part about London and his obsession for Dana, rather than turn him into a serial killer or let there be a murder, just to be a little different, and more creepy/ scary. I see this guy as a more passive dangerous character ,rather than an outright murderous character like Lisa Vanacili. George is sly, very sly not so bold. He’s a plotter very calculating he won’t lash out like Lisa. Maybe Didi feels otherwise when she crafted him, we’ll see in her reveal post.
Week Three: The Entrance To The Tunnel Is His Only Way Out. Click Here to Read It. A short sharp bit of crime fiction.
Author A:
Author B:
My First Reaction When I read Didi’s Ending For This Story:
Wow! I never saw that coming at all. Now that’s a surprise twist. I was very shocked at how Didi set me up to think that Juan would make it out okay, he just needed a little sleep. I think personally, she kept his character very true to what I created, Juan did not change. I also would NEVER have thought to go in that direction creatively at all, never ever. I don’t know what was going through her head when she wrote the ending, but what ever it was did me proud.
So there you go. You know who author A and author B is for weeks one- three. Stay tuned for week four’s story which will be posted on Tuesday! Polls will go up to vote for week five’s writing prompt Wednesday. And now we have announced week four’s winning prompt…. why not write a story to the prompt with us? Leave your link on our pages and use #kdsuspense!
And remember …. WE NEVER DISCUSS WHO SHOULD WRITE WHAT, OR HOW THE STORIES SHOULD START OR END. ONCE WE HAVE AUTHOR A AND B AGREED… AUTHOR A WRITES, HANDS HER STORY TO AUTHOR B, SHE WRITES, WE PUT THEM TOGETHER, GIGGLE HARD …AND PRESS PUBLISH!
Have a wonderful start to your week tomorrow.
“When His Hand Ran Up My Thigh I??”…We Have a Winner! #kdsuspense #amwriting
Something a little different for this weeks’ short story writing prompt. You voted for it! So of course Didi and I will be responding on Tuesday with a romance themed short story.
“When his hand ran up my thigh I?”….
Join us! Write your own story in response to the prompt, use #kdsuspense when you post, you can also link it to the story post on Tuesday. However you participate is fine. We look forward to seeing what you come up with.
The writing has commenced I’ll see you Tuesday!
Info on the weekly story challenge for newbies.
This interactive writing challenge is simple and insanely creative. It’s a group effort and we are so glad to have you join in the writing fun!! I hope you’re ready to challenge Didi and I by choosing which prompts we can transform into stellar suspense! Give us your best shot! You vote on our weekly prompt, and we provide the entertainment. One of us will start the story and the other will pick up where she randomly left off. It’s that simple! The super easy steps are as follows:
STEP ONE: Every Wednesday well post a voting poll with a few prompts to choose from.
STEP TWO: With the click of a button, you cast your vote on a prompt. (voting will stay open for three days.)
STEP THREE: READ AND ENJOY! Every week on the following Tuesday we will post the short story that transformed from the very winning prompt you chose!
All comments on the story posts will be open. We love feedback, and I’m willing to bet you will never guess who wrote what!! Therein a challenge of your own! (Yes, one of us writes in British English, and one of us in American. We are well aware, and ready for some trickery. Trust me, we are brilliant at adapting styles.)
Joint Author BIO:
Kim and Didi were thrilled when they crossed paths in 2017, as fellow suspense authors they read each others work. It became clear there was a mutual author love between the two! This lead to them deciding to become writing buddies, to entertain you and sharpen their craft as writers. From across the Atlantic ocean, the two authors will respond to writing prompt challenges, voted by readers and/or themselves to respond to. The fun bit…. one author will start the story/challenge off and the other will finish it. Your challenge is working out who wrote what!
As well as suspense the two authors will turn their hand to genres that have never dabbled in before ,and have a lot of fun along the way.
When His Hands Ran Up My Thighs I… #kdsuspense #amwriting
Wait for it! …..If this romance writing prompt wins all the votes this week, this is the story you will get from Didi and I next Tuesday. From the votes we’ve had this one is in the lead. Not your cup of tea? No problem, see what else in on offer and vote for another short story writing prompt. If it IS your cup of tea, and you’ve not voted please do and keep it in the lead.
Voting closes today! Better be quick just two clicks of your mouse…. Go on, you know you want to. Week one- three’s stories can also be read on the link below also.
Vote on this link here
This interactive writing challenge is simple and insanely creative. It’s a group effort and we are so glad to have you join in the writing fun!! I hope you’re ready to challenge us by choosing which prompts we can transform into stellar suspense! Give us your best shot! You vote on our weekly prompt, and we provide the entertainment. It’s that simple! Here are the steps.
STEP ONE: Every Wednesday well post a voting pole with a few prompts to choose from.
STEP TWO: With the click of a button, you cast your vote on a prompt. (voting will stay open for three days.)
STEP THREE: READ AND ENJOY! Every week on the following Tuesday we will post the short story that transformed from the very winning prompt you chose!
All comments on the story posts will be open. We love feedback, and I’m willing to bet you will never guess who wrote what!! Therein a challenge of your own! (Yes, one of us writes in British English, and one of us in American. We are well aware, and ready for some trickery. Trust me, we are brilliant at adapting styles.)
Author, Kim Knight 