Ask the Author: Karen Kay
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Karen Kay
This is an easy question for me to answer. I'd travel back to the 1800's West. Probably either the Blackfeet, the Lakota, the Cheyenne, the Assiniboine or Crow. Although it might be hard at first to live without modern conveniences, I do believe as a people, we were free then.
Karen Kay
I think the mystery that intrigues me most is how the medicine men in the tribes healed people. I know much of their healing was herbs and such. But they usually only went to herbs to help heal after they had done what I can only think might have been spiritual healing.
Karen Kay
I use a study tech that works for me every time. I have done a lecture on this and if you want to listen to that lecture, it is on youtube. Here's #1 or 6 short videos on "How to get yourself out of Writer's Block." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6piGq...
You can also listen to this on my website: https://novels-by-karenkay.com/woksho...
You can also listen to this on my website: https://novels-by-karenkay.com/woksho...
Karen Kay
I get to write about happy-ever-after and the joyful part of meeting the one whom the heroine will spend her life with. It brings me joy, too.
Karen Kay
Set a time to write every day and be there every day to write, whether words get put down or not. At least, spend that time every day doing something connected with the story, even if it's only thinking about it. Don't sweat the small things in the beginning, just get down somehow (forget about proper English when you're creatively writing) what's in your mind on paper or as we write now, on the computer.
Karen Kay
At present I have a new book must released (june 2024) and I'm heavily involved in doing the promo. However, as soon as I can I will write more of the new story, Book #5 in the Medicine Man Series. It's working title is SHE BELONGS WITH ME.
Karen Kay
This may seem like a silly answer, but I would suppose I get inspired to write because of my love for my husband, as well as my love for the American Indian culture of the past. Did you know that the name "Indian" (this comes from Pocahontas' tribe, by the way) came not from Columbus as we have been led to believe, but from the Indians, themselves. At the time, there were a lot of Spanish coming to their shores, and the Spanish gave them the name "Indio," I think that's the way it was spelled, meaning "god-like." I like that story.
Karen Kay
For this series, all the book are related by the hero being a medicine man, but also by characters. There are characters caught from past books in each new story. In my current story the hero for this book was the stolen baby in book #1, and the side-kick for the hero in book #4 -- the book just released.
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