My Voice….

Yes, that’s right my voice. I think i found it. Not that i’d ever lost it or anything. and no i’m not talking about my actual voice. I’m referring to my writing voice. I recently did a prompt and the flow of the words came so easily for me, never as they have before. i’ve never really had trouble writing, but i never though that when you found your voice things could flow so smoothly. Also, i never realized how outgoing that voice really was. I had so much fun with it, and created a hero that just about makes me wish i could stare at him in my mind for hours on end. lol. Oh wait, i can in my head haha. It seems to me, if i can stick it out that i might be able to target myself to something like Harlequin Blaze and some single title publishers as well. Can’t wait to see how it pans out. Of course, thief isn’t written in that voice, for me that story need more of a serious tone to it, but it’s coming out well enough for a first MS. I think when i do the rewrite of Desire i’m going to do it in my new found voice, maybe it was just what the story was missing. everytime i tried to go back and edit it i just couldn’t. I think doing a rewrite but following the same story line and using my new found voice mught just be the trick.

In other news, i’ve figured out that the IRS hates me, i think it’s because they don’t want to give me anymore money. you see i was a good girl and did my taxes early and got lotsa money back and i htink now they’re trying to withhold my stimulus check. so pretty much i’ve come to the realization that they’re secretly against me. Don’t they understand that i could really use that money???? really want to pay off my credit card you know? I think the only way to keep my mind off the IRS and their plan to get back at me for taking money from them already (even though it was money owed to me) is to imagine my delectable treat that i created in my mind….let’s see if that works…..mmmm…..yup. the only thing that could make that vision any better would be chocolate. haha. okay well i know it’s been forever since my last post, but i’ve had a lot of free time and spent it writing my MS. i’ll try not to be such a stranger next time.

Kaycee Kacer

Escape from reality, succumb to temptation

Ahhh….Summer!

Yes, I am a California girl through and through, and I love knowing that we have awesome weather out here. However, I have my limits and today when my car’s thermometer read 110 degrees I decided that was it. I’m protesting the sun until it can keep its beautiful, gorgeous, extremely hot rays at a nice comfortable mid 80’s. Not 110. Summer barely started so you just know 110 degrees is going to be nothing compared what were in for so I ask of you, Sun, whom I love so much, please cool off so that I can enjoy your heat rather than run from it. I so hate having to do that. There are already enough things for me to be frustrated with to have to be frustrated with you too. Please give me a summer that I can enjoy and not one that I have to coop myself up inside for, I already had to do that from fall to spring because I got too cold. Just work with me on this one, okay? Thanks.

As for you, the readers, how about sharing your favorite season while praying to the sun with me, that he’ll cooperate!

Kaycee Kacer

Escape from reality, succumb to temptation

Which Motorhome is Ours??????

As promised here is a tale of the past. It’s a funny story really, one full of humor because in case you didn’t know…the color of my hair is…drum roll please…BLONDE! That’s right folks, i may pretend to be smart graduating from college in a year with a BSBA in accounting and being the bookkeeper and HR Manager for three companies, but it’s all a facade. That’s right i’ve fooled you all. *laughs evily* So here’s what you’ve been waiting for….

Every year my whole entire family (and that’s a lot of people) when i say whole entire family i mean aunts, uncles, and cousins also, take a trip up to Montana to Yellowstone National Park for three weeks. COunt them. THREE, gorgeous weeks in the mountains where i can see the stars, listen to the running river and laugh over the cute furry squirrels that run amuck at the campground. Now, i know what you’re saying, “But Kaycee, i thought you were a California Girl” And you know what? it’s true, but it’s nice to get away and be able to breath something other than smog for a change. Alas, ever since i got a job and had to start paying my own bills i haven’t been able to take this wonderful vacation. it’s been four years since i’ve gone and six years since the following incident occurred.

So there i was minding my own business helping my darling aunt take out trash to the dumpster. i was hunning along to whatever tune had been in my head at the time (i would say i was listening to my characters argue like i usually do now, but i hadn;t started writing back then) on my way back i wasn’t paying much attention because i knew where my motorhome was located so i continued humming all the way up the steps, into the motorhome and onto the couch. When i sat down i could hear a dog barking from inside. Now, mind you, it never occured to me that we didn’t have a dog, i was just a little absent minded, so i looked up and there sitting at the dining table were two strangers staring at me oddly.

That’s right folks, yours truly walked into the wrong motorhome. needless to say, i got up immediately and ran to my own motorhome which was next door. that’s right i missed my own motorhome by one. if i had been paying attention instead of being the blonde that i am, then i wouldn’t have had that problem. But i couldn’t keep the incident to myself and told my entire family about it. now, they won’t let me live it down. which i don’t mind because it’s only one of many many stories like it and it’s nice tobe able to make people laugh. even if it is at my expense. maybe i’ll share the other stories sometime soon.

Now’s your turn, go ahead and share an embarassing moment with me. I think its only fair considering i’m always the one being laughed at. now it’s my turn to laugh at your expense. lol. j/k. but seriously, tell me something embarassing! Can’t wait to read it.

Until next time,

Kaycee Kacer aka THE BLONDE!

Escape from reality, succumb to temptation

Dear Father,

Dad,

thank you for always being there for me and for always believing in me. For taking care of me when i needed help, for fixing and washing my car, for helping me with loans for college, for loving me more than i could ever ask for. you are by far the best dad in the entire world and i couldn’t ask for a better one than you. I’m always there for you as you are for me, never underestimate my love for you because i love you with all my heart. So here’s to you dad, on your day.

I love you.

Kaycee, your super genius and lalabug.

 

Kaycee Kacer

Escape from reality, succumb to temptation.

PS: tomorrow…perhaps i will share a blonde moment from my past with all of you.

Almost there….

I only have  a few more days left of school until my two weeks off and I can’t begin to tell you how ecstatic i am. I am getting so tired of doing homework all the damn time and it makes it harder when all i want to do is write my story. I am planning on entering it into some contests, and that really motivates me to get it done, but it’s kind of hard to do that when i have tons of school work so guess what i will be doing my entire time off besides going to work? That’s right, i’ll be relaxing and writing at night and i may even find time to cook dinner again because i gotta say, i’m really starting to miss my homecooked meals. I am a pretty damn good cook if i do say so myself. it’ll be nice to have time to do it all. Well, that’s all that’s really going on today, but you can bet that you’ll be hearing from me soon!

Kaycee Kacer

Graduation….

As i wake up this morning to get up for work i can’t help but hear the tune to pops and circumstance in my head. The only reason i could think of for this was the fact that my little brother is graduating tonight. that’s right TONIGHT! apparently, he’s not so little anymore. And that got me thinking you know? Thinking about how this time three very fast years ago i was doing the same thing and that i couldn’t have been more excited, and sad at the same time. I knew everything was going to be different and i wasn’t sure if it was a good thing or a bad thing. Now, i can’t believe that in a year i’ll be doing it again, of course i won’t know a single person at my graduation this time because i attend school full time online. Oh well, as long as i get the graduation i don’t care.

That got me thinking….you graduate from highschool and have to worry about life, you graduate from college and have to worry about how the hell you’re going to pay for it now that you’re out of it. I think it’s funny really, you spend nearly a hundred grand to further your education so that you can get a career that will barely allow you to pay those bills. Unless, of course i become the next Nora Roberts! How freaking awesome would that be? I would be rich from doing something i love, the Patrick Dempsey/ Matthew Machoughaney look a like boyfriend that i blessed to have will be rich from his job and we’ll live happily ever after. At least, that’s our plan. lol.

Anyways, if you ask me, graduation really makes you think of a lot of things, especially life in general. So to my brother, I wish you a wonderful life and i know in my heart that you will be successful in everything you do. Just remember, sister is always here for you whenever you need me! I love you with all my heart and good luck! This is for you!

Kaycee Kacer

Talk about crazy

Now, I know I’m young and that there’s others out there with a way crazier schedule than mine, but this is finals week people! A finals week in which i have two finals, a final project, one paper, one accounting assignment with multiple problems, two quizzes, and discussion posts that need to be completed. On a normal week, this is a crazy workload, but this week makes it a little extraordinary because now I’m stressing.

Yesterday, I started all the homework, tonight I have to do the final draft of my paper in which my professor suggested I do more research on and discussion posts. Tomorrow, I have to get my copy of my final draft to the rest of my team so that they can do their part, and then I have to wait for them to submit it back to me so I can put it together. Then I submit it back to them so they can make any editing comments they wish, and then they send it back to me and I apply those edits and submit the final draft. That’s how we’ve been doing it and it works for us.

Also, tomorrow I have to at least get started on my accounting assignment and marketing paper. Thursday my brother graduates so I can’t do homework then. Friday, I have to get everything situated with my final project and finish those assignments I started Thrusday. Saturday, I have a wedding to go to so no homework that day. On sunday, I have to get up extra early so I can get any last minute assignments done and submitted and then go spend the day with my father since it’s Father’s day.

Did I mention I still have to buy graduation presents and father’s day presents? I know, I’m pressed for time. What a week I have planned. I’ll get through it though and that’s what counts, even if I do stress in the process lol. The boyfriend’s been working and going to the casino at night so it kind of gives me more time to get what I need done.

I think the hardest part of it all is the fact that it’s hard to keep my concentration on my homework when all I want to do is write my book. My fingers literally itch on the keyboard. I practically have to glue them to the keyboard so I don’t use that little magical touch pad and “accidentally” open my WIP. Believe me, it happens. I wish there was another magical button that I could press and all my homework would be completed. 

oh wait! That would be considered the easy way out and that never works out the way it should. Nope, I guess I have to do it the hard way. For the first time since i came up with my tag line, I have to ignore it or I’ll fail my classes. I can’t escape from reality and succumb to temptation. Not when my reality is trying to pass classes that I’m spending over 70 grand on. Even if the temptation is to write. The only writing I’ll be doing is my final paper. Oh well, that’s they way it goes.

To the rest of you though….I strongly urge you to ESCAPE FROM REALITY AND SUCCUMB TO TEMPTATION. Trust me, you’ll like it.

Kaycee 

my weekend

So i had a really good weekend aside from not being able to find time to write because of homework, but it was much needed time to myself and the boyfriend. on saturday we went to barona casino so that we could bet on big brown to win the triple crown and what a bummer that turned out to be, but that’s fine ’cause the boyfriend did extremely well playing black jack. then we went to the Temecula Balloon and Wine Festival for a couple of hours and watched the balloon glow, ate dinner, and walked through the shops.

the boyfriend bought me a giraffe print purse, which in case any of you didn’t know, is the cutest thing ever, especially since I am super obsesses with giraffes. If you’ve seen Good Luck Chuck, think of Jessica Alba’s obsession with penguins in the movie and that’s me with giraffes. They’re just so cute, so needless to say i was ecstatic.

Sunday, however wasn’t as much fun. I spent all morning cleaning the house with the boyfriend, then he watch NASCAR and motocross while i spent a good three more hours on homework. then while i was doing laundry i took a nasty spill down the stairs while carrying the laundry basket and knocked the wind out me, got rug burn on my elbows, and bruised my tailbone. i woke up this morning with a horrible neck ache. Then after i finished homework and NASCAR was over we went to dinner and the grocery store and looked at some furniture for the house.

By the time i had free time, i couldn’t sit down for long periods of time and get myself to concentrate and write, but that’s okay, i got in touch with an old friend and someone who’s pretty darn successful as a romance author so it was nice to hear from them, and find out their oldest is finally graduating from high school. Anyways, i may not have gotten any writing done this weekend, but i still think it was a pretty good one, especially with my new purse :-D.

I’ll talk to you all soon!

Kaycee Kacer

http://www.kayceekacer.com

escape from reality, succumb to temptation.

A day in the life of….

Well, in case you’re all wondering what my life is like i thought i would break it down for you. Mind you, this is also the reason i find so little time to write haha.

5:30 am my alarm and the boyfriends alarm goes off.

5:45 the boyfriend leaves for work and i drag myself out of bed to change, brush my teeth and head to the gym.

6:00 spend at least 30 minutes at the gym, usually an hour. on fridays i meet with a trainer for 30 minutes and do 30 minutes of cardio, the rest of the days vary upon how tired i am, usually by the time i get to the gym i’m full of energy.

7:00 come home, eat a bowl of cereal or some other form of carbs

7:15 take a shower and get done for work

8:45 stop at starbucks drive through, get my daily fix of green tea, since its good for you, helps the metabolism, and satisfies my caffeine addiction so i don’t get a migraine and then head to work.

9:00 put in a 8 hour day at my job as the bookkeeper and HR manager for three companies (which i love doing by the way)

5:15 come home, get settled in, set up my laptop at the desk so i can start homework, visit with the boyfriend for a few minutes (if he’s home)

5:30 time for homework, luckily i only have a year left until i get my BSBA, but i attend school full time online and if you think accounting classes are hard, try to virtually teach it to yourself.

7:30 take break from homeowrk, make dinner so we don’t starve.

8:00 eat dinner

8:30 finish up any last minute details for the nights homework

9:00 check the days emails (whats left of them that i didn’t check at work at least there’s usually still a lot and considering i have both work and personal emails, there’s a lot of people i can’t leave hanging.

9:30 go lay down in bed, and think about what i want to write the next time i get a chance.

10:30 usually fall asleep only to start the entire day over again tomorrow.

so as you can see, i don’t have a lot of time except for on weekends, but even then i still have homework to do and since i’m spending over 70 grand plus interest it kind of takes priority. It’s hard to balance my time especially when i want to spend time with the boyfriend, read, and write, and sometimes it’s nice to just relax as well. I’m only twenty and i have a full schedule, but one more year and then i’ll have a couple hours free every night and i can’t wait.

on the brightside i have a week and a half left for school and then i get two weeks off from it, so i’ll get the little break i need to hopefully overcome my senioritis. I just wish i had more time to go shopping lol.

Gotta go work! I’ll talk to you soon!

Kaycee Kacer

http://www.kayceekacer.com

escape from reality, succumb to temptation

Daily writing goal

So….today I decided to set a daily writing goal for myself of at least 500 words(not editing) with a weekly writing goal of at least 7,000 words. This way if for some reason i can’t write more than 500 words I’ll be okay as long as I make up the work on a different day that week so i can meet the weekly goal. Also, I want to set an editing goal of at least twice a week right now, until i’m finished with the first round edits through Chapter 5 of my MS. Then my plan is to write each chapter, then edit it in steps and submit it to the critique group. While I’m awaiting critiques, I’ll go ahead and start the next chapter. Figured it sounded like a good idea, at least as long as i can get all my homework done so I can actually write.

I’ve also decided to sometime soon create a myspace page entirely under my pen name that way i can have my personal one as well as a “professional” one.

Anyways, I’ll keep you all posted if i stick to my writing goals or not. I think i’m going to post them on my website too for more motivation.

 

Kaycee Kacer

Escape from reality, succumb to temptation