Kathy Brasby Blog
Creative break
Sometimes creativity needs a little color.
Why a best seller isn’t on my to-do list
I found the formula for writing a best-selling novel recently. On the internet, of course, where all good solutions can be found. It was really quite simple. Pick a topic in a popular genre and write. Submit your stuff to critique groups. Then submit it to one of the...
Remember?
I had coffee yesterday with a couple of friends that I haven't seen in eight years. My family moved, they don't do email, the friendship cooled over time. But they moved into my area and we met to catch up. We laughed over the Samsonite suitcase story and the...
Why story patterns matter
Patterns always start with a first time and my pattern got rolling when I couldn't figure out how to light the gas grill in my back yard. I'd just moved into the house and never had one before. I found the knob for the natural gas on the front and then crawled around...
From the land
My father was a sugar beet farmer in Colorado, a fact which sculpts my thinking more now than it did when I was hoeing weeds in eternally-long fields as a teenager. Where once a farm was 80 or 160 acres, now they need to be well over 1000 acres or the farmer will go...
About being published
I don't consider publication to be the end-all for a writer, even though it sure is nice. I know writers who share their talents in thank-you notes and encouragement letters. Not a bad gig at all. I know others who exclusively blog. They are putting their insights on...
Falling in Love With You… coming soon
My short story "Unexpected Escape" will appear in OakTara's anthology, Falling in Love With You, which is scheduled to be published by the first of October. Stay tuned. I'm not generally a romance writer but my husband and I have a unique story of how we fell in love....
Why?
From Evernote: Why? Why do I write? It's a cliche to say, "because I can't not write." That's a true statement but I want to dig a little deeper. I write to create a world to explore and people to meet. I finished one novel only because I liked the main...
