Author Archives: Kay
10 Steps to Help You Edit Like a Pro
Yes, I did finish The Love of Divena, last book in the Blessings in India series. And, yes, the loose ends do all come together. Thanks for asking!
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Finding My Focus
When I first started writing—I’ll admit that was back when dinosaurs roamed the earth!—I wrote anything and everything. Whatever struck my fancy. Whatever some editor or another told me was a hot topic. Whatever interested a friend or acquaintance who passed the idea along to me. I wrote magazine articles, books, screenplays, stuff for children, newspaper columns. I wrote a real estate booklet, a report for an alcohol treatment center, third grade Sunday School curriculum, a short story for True Experiences Magazine. If someone mentioned it, I wrote it.
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The Truth is Out There
- What is the Malayalam word for grandmother?
- What type of government is most common in rural South Indian communities?
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Singing the New Computer Blues
I’m sorry to have been without words for so long. Thing is, I am trying to break in a new computer and it’s no small task. Besides needing to relearn the keyboard (why put all the control stuff in a place that reconfigures the letter placement?!), I have to reenter all my favorites sites. Which means I have to remember all my user names and passwords. Hey, I struggle to recall my phone number!
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Old Favorite: Taming an Overgrown Idea
I got this same question twice last week and again this morning. So, it being zuchini season and all, I decided it was time to rerun this post:
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To Do The Right Thing~
Okay, here I am again with my all-too-familiar lament: Book deadline looming and not enough hours in the day! (The third and final book of my new Blessings in India trilogy—The Love of Divena—is due on the editor’s desk in one month.) Part of the plot line involves an age old quandary: Do what is expected? Do what is advantageous? Or do what is right, despite the cost?
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Calling All 21st Century Abolitionists!
Think your voice doesn’t matter? Think again!
Writing, Work or Fun?
I just received a lovely note from a new author named Sandy. She is struggling to finish her first book. But even when it is out there, Sandy says, she has no idea how it will be received—or even if it will be received. So her question is: “What are the advantages of writing besides the possibility of striking it rich?”
I Still Love Lucy
Our birthdays are just four days apart, Lucy and me. Four days and a whole bunch of years. If she were still alive, Lucille Ball would be 100 years old today, and I am… well… much, much, much younger.
Like Herding What?
“Leading, which means herding 240 or 435 cats in the same direction, ain’t easy anywhere and particularly in D.C.,” said Rep. Tim Scott fromSouth Carolina.
