New Chapter.

Hello out there.

Last weekend I released three chapters of Dark Offerings and I’d like to report that I also released a fourth one yesterday.

I apologize for not letting everyone know. My brother had surgery and there were complications so I was majorly distracted. Other than a little numbness he’s okay so no need to worry about him.

I’m pretty excited about Dark Offerings and would love to hear your feedback. Good or bad it encourages me get better and keep writing.

You can catch the new Chapters here!

Thank you so much for being patient with me!
Katherine

Something New

Hello out there,

I hope everyone’s having a wonderful Friday. I’ve been working on a new story and posted the first chapter on Royal Road today!

It’s very different from what I normally post but a lot of fun nonetheless. The story’s about a zombie(shambler) girl who roleplays for fun. I’ve had a blast writing it and wanted to share it with you all.

Royal Road is a new place for me but it’s probably the best place for a LITRPG story like this.

The story is called Dark Offerings. If you click the name it’ll take you to the page.

I appreciate everyone who has been waiting for me to post something new. I’ve been having a hard time finding time to write and it’s only going to get tougher next year.

Lots of Love,
Katherine

Picking up the Pen Again

Hello out there,

I’ve been gone for a while, long enough that people have begun to wonder where I am and why the chapters of Walker’s Path have stopped.

In the last nine months, I have gotten a new car(new debt), had two different surgeries, and have been working to slowly pay off that debt. Needless to say, I’ve been under a lot of stress and haven’t been able to write at all.

On a side note, today, half of my mouth was taken out, put into a blender, and then put back together. I’m also scheduled to do it all again tomorrow. In other words, my teeth are getting deep cleaned.

Despite all of that I have started to write again. It began last week. I’ve been doing DoorDash and have recently started listening to audiobooks while I drive. Perhaps this initiated a spark or maybe I’m getting used to the stress of paying my debt.

Whatever the reason I’m happy to be at it again.

Most of my writing has been focused on a new piece. The first chapter has captivated my writer’s group so I’m continuing to roll with it.

I did start on Walker’s Path again but I’m only around four pages in on the chapter for that one. I’ll let you all know when I’m ready to release it.

To pass the time I’ve been mostly playing video games. When I am depressed I tend to do this. I’ve probably mentioned this in the past so I won’t go any deeper on it.

I’ll try and keep everyone informed about my well-being going forward. If I could write full time and make enough money to live a simple life I would do it. There’s so much pent-up loneliness and depression that it takes a vast amount of energy to get out of bed.

I know I’ve left you with a bit of a sour note but I hope all of you are doing better than I am. I’ll do my best to write in-between work so you can enjoy the stories my weird brain has to share.

With Love,
Katherine

Indisposed

Hello out there,

If you haven’t noticed, I’ve been gone.

My family contracted COVID a few days before Halloween. It was probably the worst bout of sickness I’ve ever been through.

In May I received both doses of the Pfizer vaccine. However, when I got the virus I ended up with the same symptoms as the rest of the adults in my family, vaccinated or not.

I’d like to think that it was a variant that the original vaccine didn’t protect me from. What I do know is that I have been suffering for over a month. I want to encourage people to wear their masks. I’ve seen the tests and masks reduce the particles that are projected when talking, sneezing, etc.

I have an appointment for a booster shot and will be taking that. To be honest I’m exhausted. I want this to go away so I can actually focus again.

Obviously, Walker’s Path has been put on hold. I’ve been using what little focus I have on my book, Adrian. I’m close to finishing the 6th draft for it. I need some fresh eyes to read it in its current state. Hopefully, my friend who owns an editing business will give me someone new on this next run.

My free time will be greatly reduced soon so I need to get this book done before that.

I’ve also been going through some major depression issues. My therapist is doing his best to help but I’m having trouble breaking from the spiral. COVID certainly hasn’t helped.

I want to give you more from this weird brain of mine but I can only do so much. I’ll try and do my best.

In the future, I want to start streaming at least three days a week. I started a new story about a futuristic world where the main character is thrown into a VR game. There’s still a lot I need to work out to make it interesting but I’m sure you and the people on twitch would be happy to help.

I hope you have a wonderful weekend and stay safe.
Katherine

Writing Walker’s Path Chapter 14

Hello out there,

My name is Katherine Phillips and I’m the writer of the Walker’s Path web serial. This is my take on the latest release of Walker’s Path. It will be laden with spoilers so make sure to check out the new chapter before reading this!

A little bit of a warning. This Chapter has a sexual assault happen in it. I’ll be talking about this subject and if you have any problems with it you might not want to read todays episode.

That being said, I hope you’re all doing well.

Walker as you know was kissed by Jesse and to be honest I didn’t know this was how the story was going to go. In fact I’d planned for the encounter to be Jesse giving Walker his number.

Then, subconsciously, my mind went to the song by Sublime called “Date Rape.” If you don’t know the song it’s pretty much a story about a great looking guy who rapes women. As the song progresses the woman eventually gets justice. I didn’t realize that the song was actually influencing my writing until I edited it.

Walker experienced something very serious that a lot of people actually tend to brush off. Kissing or touching another person without their permission is Sexual Assault.

I actually made it a point to make Walker partially enjoy the experience because that’s how it can happen. You can get lost in the moment when someone is good looking but that doesn’t give the the right to do what ever they want.

Unfortunately, I had something similar happen to me. I was at a friends house and her neighbor came over. While my friend left the room the neighbor grabbed my chest. I was mortified. He wasn’t exactly good looking in my case but I was disturbed. In fact, he was a family friend. Luckily, my family understood and he is no longer allowed on our premises.

You can probably understand why this chapter is very personal to me based on these circumstances.

What I think is interesting is how Walker reacts to Joy. Walker doesn’t even see the kiss as a sexual thing. He is too disturbed that a guy had kissed him. I realize that I will have to make Walker deal with it at one point or another.

This rejection of what happened to him is what led to him creating a Kennedi character. It’s his mind splitting up the bad thing that happened to him. If he wasn’t the one it happened to he doesn’t need to worry about it, right?

Those two worlds the Walker and the Kennedi will eventually collide and it won’t be pretty. That part will be quite a bit down the line though.

The Walker and Joy meeting during Drama class was actually a happy accident. It gave me a believable shared backstory. Plus it’ll be fun to actually write some Drama class scenes. It might actually be fun to make Walker play a female part in a play when someone can’t make it.

As for the scene with Joy’s mom. It would have been highly irresponsible if she didn’t say anything so that’s how the bathroom scene with her was born.

Before you ask. Yes, the ice creams were a representation of the characters. Walker’s Banana Split, is obvious. Gina’s girly Strawberry fruit, Lacy’s Rocky Road, and Sam’s Vanilla.

What do you think Alyx’s flavor would be if she were there? Leave a comment and let me know!

I liked how Joy was apprehensive about the whole Kennedi character creation until Walker invited her to make it with him. I’m going to have some fun with that one in the future. Lets just say that they won’t see eye to eye on all of Kennedi’s traits.

I was tempted to remove the religious bit but tried to use it as an opportunity to give walker more backstory. Losing someone is hard, especially if they are close to you. In this case it changed the Walker family immensely. (Yes, Walker is their family name, remember?)

I actually have a few family members that don’t like their cars being touched like what happened in the story. I mentioned that Walker didn’t want to go “cruising” with his uncle because it was boring. My uncle is who this experience was modeled after. However, the main difference is that I absolutely loved hanging out with my uncle. I don’t think I ever declined to ride around with him.

That’s it for today’s episode of Writing Walker’s Path. As always, if you have any questions feel free to leave a comment and ask away!

If you are struggling please talk with someone. Be it a therapist or a friend you can trust. We deserve better ladies.

Lots of love,
Katherine

Walker’s Path Chapter 14 is released!

Hello out there,

A bit of a warning for this one. There is a sexual assault that happens in this one and if you are not comfortable with situations like that you might want to skip this chapter. It’s an unwanted kiss which this might seem minor but it’s still a sexual assault.

Here’s the link to the new Walker’s Path chapter. If that link does not work you can also read the story at Publish0X.

I think this is some of my best work. Enjoy.
Katherine

Bit of an Update

Hello out there,

I’m getting close to finishing Chapter 14 of Walker’s Path. It’s been tough writing it but it’s coming along great.

It should probably be out this coming Saturday. I’m really excited to get this one out. It’s one of those Chapters that feels really good. (From a story standpoint.)

I know this isn’t a big update but it’s at least something.

Hope your week goes well!
Katherine

Writing Walker’s Path Chapter 13

Hello out there,

My name is Katherine Phillips and I’m the writer of the Walker’s Path web serial. This is my take on the latest release of Walker’s Path. It will be laden with spoilers so make sure to check out the new chapter before reading this!

I hope everyone is having a wonderful weekend. Chapter 13 is named Reflections. Mainly because there are two trips to the bathroom in this one. To be honest I’m getting a bit tired of writing bathroom scenes but it turns out you actually spend a good amount of time in them as a girl.

One of the first things that I mention in this one is Walker’s sore chest. If you’ve never gone through puberty as a girl then you probably don’t know this happens. It’s nothing like being hit in the testicles but it still hurts pretty bad. Even though the other girls know how bad it hurts they want Walker to stop touching himself there. Which is understandable since it’s seen as a lude act.

I’ve been trying to do my best at making this a realistic story so things like the chest rubbing will happen. I am trying to make it as good natured as possible while also staying true to life. The last thing I want is for this story to be considered Erotica.

That being said, as a teenager emotions burn hot so we will be getting some thoughts from Walker that are lustful in nature.

Back to this Chapter. Walker talks to Joy’s parents about his damaged lungs and lies about having social anxiety. While the ladder is untrue for him, he does actually suffer from a form of anxiety. That is of course driven by what he is wearing.

I also introduced the “picky eater” trope into the story. As a person living in a house with five (used to be six) kids this trope isn’t a trope at all it’s more true to life than anything else. Every kid has their likes and dislikes. The funny thing is that friends can actually change these. Peoples decisions can be heavily influenced by social interaction and especially at a young age.

As an example of this Walker is peer pressured into agreeing to go to the mall with the girls. My frame of mind here is that Walker doesn’t want to be the “party pooper.” He see’s how much they want to go so he crumbles.

I need to talk about chapter 14 for a moment. I’m about seven pages in and something very serious happens. I’ll just say its something bad and that it’ll influence all of the other chapters going forward. I’m not going to say its the last bad thing that Walker’s going to experience but it will be the last for the foreseeable future. It’s an important issue to cover (especially since it’s happened to me). Walker’s been through too much too soon and I really want him to enjoy himself in the chapters going forward.

Walker’s also had a taste of a girls point of view and he is understanding things that he probably didn’t care about before. He obviously doesn’t want to know these things I found it interesting to add them.

He is also dealing with his attraction to Jesse by trying to be closer to Joy. It’s also a way for Walker avoid his feelings.

We also had some interaction with Heather. She even acted a bit motherly by asking Walker to fix his posture. Mothers can be this way and you should expect more interaction with her in the next chapter.

My mindset in this chapter was to give Walker an experience into femininity. There was some tension but it wasn’t a major focal point for the story.

Spoiler, next Chapter Joy floats the idea of Walker doing this again and I’ll let you ponder his reaction.

I think that’s enough for now. As always if you have any questions or comments please leave a message on this post or if you want to ask something a bit more private go through the contact section.

Last but not least remember to star the chapters you like in WattPad otherwise the story doesn’t get exposure.

I hope your weekend goes really well!
Katherine

Writing Walker’s Path Chapter 12

Hello out there,

My name is Katherine Phillips and I’m the writer of the Walker’s Path web serial. This is my take on the latest release of Walker’s Path. It will be laden with spoilers so make sure to check out the new chapter before reading this!

This Chapter has been on my mind for a really long time. The first formation of the Jesse scene came to me around the time I was writing chapter three. That was last year!

The whole chapter is pretty much Walker, Jesse, and Joy so I was able to really focus on Walkers feelings.(Or lack there of) This was probably the Chapter with the most amount of thoughts in it.

Walker ended up showing a new side to him. I’m talking about the dazed state he was in at the beginning. The new state was an extension of the “stuck in his thoughts” one that he’s had several people nudge him out of. This one however they weren’t able to “wake” him. I see it as him being petrified and on autopilot.

This chapter introduced a new character, Jesse. Spoiler, he’s not actually a customer. We’ll find out more about him later. He’s a seemingly nice guy. Would he be one of the kids who would pick on someone like Walker? Possibly.

I had to change the crash scene several times. It was so hard to make it feel just right. Walker had to be scared, then relaxed, and then well enough to joke around with Jesse. I tried to pace it out as well as I could but I may have to revisit the scene in the future to make it even better.

We got to see a glimpse of Joy’s jealousy for the first time. She one hundred percent senses Walker’s attraction to Jesse. Walker doesn’t really understand it himself so there are some rough waters ahead.

It hurt me to write the “not gay” scene because I knew how it would make Joy feel. Despite them being characters I made up in my head they still feel very real to me.

There’s a lot of story to flesh out especially Walker’s and Joy’s relationship. Huge spoiler here. I want them to be a long time thing. There’s going to be mistakes on both sides and— Well, you’ll have to find out when it all happens.

As always every spoiler I state here is subject to change because I haven’t actually written that far ahead. I’m only around three pages into Chapter 13.

Last WWP I talked about speeding up the story. Obviously it didn’t start with this one.

I don’t have too many goals right now for the story so give me feedback! Make me think about it!

On a personal note, I recently bought a nice mic. I’ve had a lot of experience speaking to people via Twitch and want to put that to good use. So I plan to do some Narration. I’ll start with something like a WWP and then see how I feel about it. If it all goes well I may start reading my stories to people.

I hope you enjoyed this and may your weekend be relaxing.
Katherine

PS: The Header for Writing Walker’s Path is a stand in. I plan to make a new one just for this blog. I’ll retroactively change all of the other ones once I get something I like. For now it’s a bit confusing figuring out which blog is a Walker’s Path announcement and which one is WWP.