Jaycee Keef
 
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We may live without poetry, music and art, We may live without conscience and live without heart,

We may live without friends, we may live without books,

But civilized men cannot live without cooks.
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I try to get the right people assembled, give them right-sounding names and then I'm off and running. The characters have to interact. Sometimes, when there's a confrontation, I don't know which way it's going to turn out -- which character is going to come out of the house alive. Eventually, the character has to tell me." --Elmore Leonard 
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Today is Toasted Marshmallow Day. What does that have to do with Regency England? Probably nothing...but I did begin to wonder about the marshmallow itself.  Who thought up this candied concoction that my husband and granddaughter love so much?  Wondering minds want to know.  I had to find out.
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Jane Austen's World has a very informative blog about privies and water closets during the Regency.  If you have ever wondered you should pop over there and take a peep.
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A friend of mine & I were talking the other day about our deepest fears.  Hers…snakes.  Her fear is so deep, she makes a thorough check of her bedroom every night for the slithery foes.  She checks under her bed, in her closets—everywhere a snake could hide. She and her sister used to tease each other when they were small that the thing they feared the most was how they would die.  Her sister was most afraid of knives.
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1812 - French Emperor Napoleon ordered his Grande Armée of 500,000 soldiers, the largest European military force ever assembled to that date, into Russia.
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Feuds 06/10/10 08/09/2011
 
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feud1 (fy›d) n. 1. A bitter, often prolonged quarrel or state of enmity, especially such a state of hostilities between two families or clans.

Admit it—the word alone can bring a delightful rush of warm tingles.  We love watching enormous egos clash and two people ripping each other to shreds.  Although some of us like to deny it, it is human nature.
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It is perfectly okay to write garbage -- as long as you edit brilliantly." --C. J. Cherryh
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Writing 05/26/10 08/08/2011
 
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"Writing is work, but it's also a compulsion, and once you get your characters on paper, you can't abandon them. You have to respond to them." --Rosamunde Pilcher
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Contests...I have severely neglected this blog for weeks--sorry.  I would love to say I have been busy concentrating on my writing, but that would be a big, fat lie.  I have been distracted with another project.  Although I did manage to enter a few contests.  And yesterday I received word that two of my stories placed in one of the contests.  Woohoo, for me! 
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