by Kelsey Card
Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 7th, 2010
… just late to bloom. Given that this is only my third year at gardening and that I have a history of killing cacti and bamboo shoots, I should be thrilled that anything in my backyard is still alive. And things are … more or less. (Not counting my very healthy weeds). And when I [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 6th, 2010
Back in early May I invited people to join me in a Summer Writing Challenge. I had just gone to my local Romance Writers of America chapter meeting, where Harlequin Editor Brenda Chin answered questions, and had spent the entire meeting thinking: if I was going to write a book for Harlequin, what would I [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 3rd, 2010
I often see September as a time of new beginnings. Yes, I was the kid that loved going to school, loved learning new things, loved taking on new challenges. September meant a shiny new start. And I’m all about shiny new starts. New starts need new pens, new color-organized pencil crayons, and new notebooks. Sometimes [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, Writing Craft on Sep 2nd, 2010
You’ve finished your manuscript, sent it through spellchecker and you’re ready to go, right? Not necessarily. Spellchecker won’t catch everything. It’s a good place to start, it will catch mangled words (and some obvious grammar errors) but it won’t catch homonyms (words that sound the same but are spelled different like: there, their, they’re), words [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 30th, 2010
This urban fantasy has an interesting blend of Celtic mythology and Native American mysticism. The heroine is half Irish and half Cherokee and both aspects of her heritages are intertwined in the story. And I’m really enjoying it. From a writer’s perspective, what I find interesting is how C.E. Murphy uses suspension of disbelief not [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 24th, 2010
It’s a short tale and best done with a picture: Every now and then the birds at my feeder go crazy and disappear. Now I know why. And I did spend some time wondering if I should say “More Tales…” or “More Tails…”
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 19th, 2010
It’s nothing I haven’t waited on before, but today I’m much more conscious of “the waiting.” I knew when I decided I was going to be a novelist that I’d need persistence and patients and both in spades, so this waiting isn’t unexpected. And really, it’s been less than 24 hours since I sent it [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 16th, 2010
While my husband and I are still considering whether or not to welcome another cat into our family we have never really been without feline company. The moment we moved into our townhouse we realized we had a major thoroughfare running through our backyard. The cat highway, dips in the ground allowing passage under the [...]
Posted in Blogging, Uncategorized on Aug 10th, 2010
… but I thought I’d try and experiment. Something I’ve learned about myself is that until a decision is made I tend to sweat the small stuff. And once a decision is made, I still sweat the small stuff but I don’t tend to worry about it as much (my husband is either shaking his [...]
Posted in Hero's Calling, Uncategorized on Jul 26th, 2010
You know that saying 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration? Writing, in a lot of ways, is 1% writing and 99% editing. At least it is for me. There’s also some plotting, synopsis writing, and research thrown in so the analogy isn’t completely accurate, but editing encompasses the majority of my writing time. At the moment [...]
