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NaNoWriMo 2022
Today, I declared my writing project for November’s upcoming National Novel Writing Month challenge. The challenge is to write 1,667 words every day for 30 days, which should result in a 50,000 word manuscript. This spring, I participated in Camp NaNoWriMo, a sister event in which writers are free to edit or revise as well…
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Preptober 2022
National Novel Writng Month is almost upon us, which means that we are currently in Preptober. The month of October gives seasoned and aspiring novelists alike 31 days to prep their novel for the annual challenge to write a novel in 30 days in the upcoming month. It’s commonly held that writers are either plotters,…
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My Yoga Journey
Reading has always given me peace. Novels offer a fictional escape into another time, place, or set of circumstances and possibilities that can soothe or minimize real life’s ups and downs. Nonfiction books, about topics as varied as history and spirituality, expand my perspective with new information. The purpose of my book club posts has…
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Kay’s Library: Book Club Pick #2, Radiant Rest by Tracee Stanley
This month’s book club pick is much different from last month’s pick, Fire and Blood by George R. R. Martin. Copies of that particular epic fantasy are probably flying off shelves rather faster now that the HBO tv series based on it, “The House of the Dragon” has premiered. While I love tucking into my…
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My Kindle Vella Publishing Experience (So Far)
I’ve heard it said that we all have at least one book in us. As a teenager, I avidly consumed Anne Rice’s books, and would marvel at the italicized list of her books in the front matter of each paperback. I would check them off one by one as I read them, and dream of…
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“Perhaps All the Dragons in Our Lives…”
The poet Rainier Maria Rilke wrote, ‘Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.’ Like a dread, cave dwelling, smoke breathing beast from a…
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Kay’s Library: Book Club Pick #1, Fire and Blood By George R. R. Martin
Every month here on the blog, I’m going to select a book I have recently read and review it for my ‘book club’. The first pick, for July, is Fire and Blood by George R. R. Martin. Released in 2018, it is a prequel of sorts to his bestselling series A Song of Ice and…
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The Grace of Rain
Rain gets rather a bad rap, doesn’t it? “Rainy days and Mondays always get me down,” the old song goes. Rain is associated with gloom, doldrums, and misfortunes. This baffles me, because rain is so necessary to life on earth. The earth itself needs rain to be moist and fertile, to yield crops and give…
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Firebird
Firebird, you found me, when I was mired in mud, and tasked with things bigger than I felt I could be “This is not the trouble,” you said of each labor of my quest, and you were right: in each patch of shadow you shed a golden feather to light the way ahead of me,…
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The Color of My Sky
According to YA author Chesil, there is a Japanese proverb which states, “The color of the sky is the shape of the heart.” This essentially means that the way we view life-such as when we gaze upon the sky-really depends on how we feel on the inside. Tonight, the full moon is in the sign…
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