Kathrine Snow

Welcome to the Tumblr of Kathrine Snow! I have MANY projects. Hopefully this roadmap makes visiting a little easier ^-^

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My Art Tag

Illustrations

Original Stories

The Road to Nowhere - (Pre-drafting/Research) New Adult, liminal horror, slice-of-life about someone who’s thrown from an unfulfilled, frantic life into an empty world where they are totally alone . . .

DEFUSE - (Second Draft)  Sci-fi, Thriller, who-dun-it about a aliens trapped on a crumbling space ship light years away from help. 

Little Rag and the Faywood’s Cap - (Revision)  A three book middle grade folk horror about living toys who protect children form evil fay.

Master Project List

Fan Fiction (These links point to my fan fiction blog)

Super Mario Disaster

~ Super Mario Origins - (Second Round Revisions) Mario’s first attempt to navigate the mushroom world. You can guess how that goes.

~ Concerning Bycatch (Luigi’s Mansion) - (Half finished draft) My first attempt at a full-length novel from years ago. I did everything wrong because I polished as I went (which made it very hard to revise so I got stuck). But I’m gunna go back and fix and finish it one of these days. 

Other Blogs

For posts about improving your own writing, editing, and storytelling, check out my other blog! (Still in the works)

A list of upcoming projects (largely for my own purposes). Next Batch of Projects: - Frog and Stoat - Super Mario Round 2 - Counseling Club - The Armor of Lychtenstine

This is the first (chronologically) dive into the Super Mario Disaster series that I run semi-constantly in the background (cuz I gotta write SOMETHING that's 100% just for fun). The mess stars when Mario find that the painting that's always hing over his parent's bed isn't as . . . solid as he thought it was. He can step right through into an abandoned house on the other side--and the whole world beyond it. What starts as a casual exploration of the world goes . . . about the way you expect. Mario is shoved face-first into an absolute mess. Status: Going into a second round of revisions! This one is actually pretty darn close to done. On hold until the end of the month so I can come back to it with fresh eyes 49K words!

I build my Mario lore on a blend of the Mario RPG series, Paper Mario series, and the old-school 3d Mario games. But mostly the RPG series. Those are the ones I grew up on.

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This project came about because I was TRYING to go back and finish Concerning Bycatch (my Luigi's Mansion re-telling). But I was digging so deep into the bro's first adventure in the mushroom world that I was just like--might as well take a break and write that one first. So I did. I hope to re-visit Concerning Bycatch after I finish hammering this one out. I've had SO much fun figuring out how I want to write Mario. He's happy, confident, sure in his place in life, very aware that his loved ones are behind him, and has the lack of brain cells to show for it.

He's dumb but not stupid. Rash but not reckless. Rough around the edges, but because it's funny, not because he's mean or he doesn't know any better. He plays hard and works hard and enjoys both. He's got a good grasp of the world around him, but is sure enough in himself to play with it rather than feel weighed down by it. Over all, he's just a solid guy and a BLAST to write. He is also my polar opposite on the Myers Briggs scale (my personal favorite personality rubric for building characters. So writing him also makes me want to pull my hair out. Probably won't happen until well after the writing part is done and posted, but I do want to try and get better at consistently illustrating. My hope is to do the whole Mario Disaster project up in the art style of that one Mimikyu I drew. We'll see how that goes. In the meantime I'm just seeing if I can lock in the character designs without driving myself crazy.