Ask the Author: Kay Smith-Blum
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Kay Smith-Blum
Write every day - and keep going - especially if it's a story you believe in - no matter what folks say - BUT - take all feedback and see how someone might be right - even if you don't see it at first. All feedback makes a story better.
Kay Smith-Blum
The aha moment when you realize where the plot is headed! sound like a reader - but a writer, when creating - doesn't necessarily know all the twists and turns until they are 'in' the story...
Kay Smith-Blum
an afternoon of gardening (pulling weeds is very zen :) ) or an hour long lap swim usually clears the cobwebs
Kay Smith-Blum
A new novel based on my mother's story. She taught in rural central Texas with a group of five other women who became life long friends.
Kay Smith-Blum
I always wanted to write - but life got in the way until we sold our family business in 2016. I credit my high school English Lit teacher with giving me the writing bug. Her name was Ms. Smoot and she quite a college job to come back and teach in high school so entering freshmen would "know how to write."
Kay Smith-Blum
Oddly a dream - of a mass of red hair floating on a body of water - this became the key to understanding how I could humanize the harmful effects of radioactive fallout.
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