https://www.kelseypluskat.com/blog daily 0.75 2022-02-15 https://www.kelseypluskat.com/blog/the-empty-microphone monthly 0.5 2022-02-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fb733c71b217c74dbd9f99c/9d78e80f-0e17-4814-a6d3-5a0efca2c1e8/seger.jpg Blog - The Empty Microphone - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.kelseypluskat.com/blog/write-what-you-do-not-know-sort-of monthly 0.5 2021-05-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fb733c71b217c74dbd9f99c/1620429396724-KZEJSA8OTYELZ01BYVYQ/blog-507.jpg Blog - Write What You Do Not Know…Sort Of. - Wait, say that again? You bet. Write what you do not know. That seems counterintuitive, and perhaps completely ridiculous. Many scholars and authors will in fact disagree with this thread, saying instead the opposite: write what you know. But I ask as an author, do we know about killing people? First hand? I hope not. Do we have to have a heart attack to know how that feels? Maybe. But again, I say hopefully not. Or something more benign....like in my novel, was I an expert on knowing how a working cheese farm operates? No, I wasn’t. I love cheese, like my character Kate. But I didn’t know the first thing about running a cheese farm. Still, I wanted to write about it. So instead I say, write what interests you. https://www.kelseypluskat.com/blog/time-to-write-time-to-read monthly 0.5 2021-05-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fb733c71b217c74dbd9f99c/1620429284760-0YB1QWR9LKQLEBCCWZKL/blog-504.jpg Blog - Time to Write, Time to Read - In the past, I was hesitant to read other books whenever I had a slice of free time available to me. For one thing, I didn't have a Kindle; they hadn't been invented yet. Once they were, I still found myself reluctant to exploit the tech world of literature. I believed that if I read a ton of books, I might accidentally copy an idea, or my thoughts would be overly influenced by the novel I was reading. Could I lose my own voice? And people would think I was fake? Mistake. https://www.kelseypluskat.com/blog/what-i-need-to-write-a-novel monthly 0.5 2021-05-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fb733c71b217c74dbd9f99c/1620429236013-RXJBSNETKB7S3EP1PFXL/blog-502.jpg Blog - What I Need to Write a Novel - What I need to be able to write a novel is different than what someone else will need. I am sure of that. However, I thought jotting down what helps me might help other inspiring authors. The reason I am writing this blog is not just to make my story fantastic but to inspire other fantastic stories. And if this discourse does that, then I will be a very happy author. The first thing I need when sitting down to write my novel is classical music. Life itself exists in an epic symphony, we all have an instrument to play, and our tunes are as varied as the strands of DNA coursing through our bodies. But what is not varied within us is our atavistic desire to listen to a story. Since the dawn of time, everyone who has come before us has wanted one thing and one thing alone: a legendary story. I find that listening to classical music connects me to that past, and allows me to release my creativity to tell the tale within me. https://www.kelseypluskat.com/blog/launch-day monthly 0.5 2021-05-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fb733c71b217c74dbd9f99c/1620429134227-SBH0DPYAV9KZMZ2PA0U6/blog1.jpg Blog - Launch Day - In the late 1980s, when I was still discovering what it meant to be a girl growing up on the cusp of the new millennium, I became interested in the idea of writing a fictional novel. I was an ambitious nine-year-old, a voracious reader, and consistently getting top marks for stories I would craft for class. And then the real impetus behind it all - I was always most happy when I was writing. I would have rather locked myself away to write on a summer day than follow in the local kids’ footsteps: swimming at the beach or playing with water balloons in their front yards. I was fortunate and delighted that creating worlds for my characters to live in came to me so easily. I experienced infinite entertainment by pursuing these amusements. I remember relentlessly thinking, how cool would it be to become an author? The answer was: very cool. https://www.kelseypluskat.com/biography daily 0.75 2021-04-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fb733c71b217c74dbd9f99c/1618970783485-5XQ0B4IT9L6NGZXMVY1O/river-101.jpg Biography - The Story Kelsey Pluskat is a native Angeleno. Growing up in the suburbs in the 1980s, she eventually moved twenty miles away from her hometown to the iconic Westside and has remained there ever since. 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