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Katherine Center-A Mom-Stuff Favorite

Friday, February 19th, 2010

Today is our last day st Katherine Center’s blog. We hope you have enjoyed Katherine’s work as much as we have. I want to share with you Katherine’s process in writing a novel.  If you have a novel in you I think you will enjoy this. posted Jan 8,2010 on Katherine’s blog, My New New Novel

About five minutes ago, I sent the first three chapters of my new novel to my editor at Random House.  It doesn’t have a title yet, and it won’t come out until Spring 2012. But it’s a crazy thrill to have the beginning in solid shape, and to send it off for feedback.

I’ve been watching this new story unfold in little pieces in my head for a long time.  I know a lot already about where it’s going in a broad way (though the details are always one surprise after another).  But it’s pretty thrilling to see it all actually happen.  Does that make sense? It’s one thing to know a character goes for a walk.  But it’s another to actually write the scene and BE THERE.

Here are some photos of the writing I’ve been doing over the break.  Just for fun. (more…)

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Blog of the Week-Katherine Center

Wednesday, February 17th, 2010

The Mom-Stuff  Blog of the week is Katherine Center. Katherine is a novelist who’s words flow deep into your heart. I chose  this post to share with you because it really touched my soul.   She invites us to her grandparent’s ranch on the river with beautiful  pictures and she welcomes us into her reflection with her words. “How can we be connected so profoundly and never have meet?”  Katherine speaks novels in a very few words.

My grandparents’ ranch is on the Brazos river, a perpetually brown, sandy-bottom river outside Houston. (more…)

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Meet Katherine Center

Sunday, February 14th, 2010

The Mom-Stuff Blog Tour wants to introduce you to Katherine Center. 

The Mom-Stuff Blog Tour is really excited to visit Katherine this week. We believe all of our moms will enjoy this week with her. I want to share a video with you . This was my first introduction to Katherine’s work. I love this video!  It is an example of how I feel about motherhood. I hope you enjoy it as much as I do.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8K9s7_k3TM  A video essay about motherhood by Katherine Center http://www.katherinecenter.com for the Mom 2.0 Summit in Houston this February http://www.mom2summit.com

Meet Katherine

Katherine Pannill Center started writing fiction when she was in sixth grade, when she and her two best friends filled countless spirals with stories about meeting Duran Duran at the mall and bewitching the band members into falling in love with them.  These stories involved kissing, weeping, limos, the occasional log cabin, and many gentle blankets of snow.

Around that time, Katherine also started keeping journals, logging with great sincerity every detail of middle school life as she knew it.  Lists of friends!  Lists of boys!  Lists of must-have shoes!  Lists of personal flaws and areas for improvement!  The journals (though not the lists) continued through college, and now Katherine has storage boxes of them taking up far too much room in her attic.

Katherine always intended to be a writer.  At St. John’s School, in Houston, where she clocked her K-12 years, she generated stacks of poems, school newspaper columns, and short stories.  At Vassar College, she majored in English, wrote short stories, lettered her poems onto metal signs that she put up around campus, and wrote a novella (which won the Vassar College Fiction Prize). 

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