Inspiration, Take it Where You Find it by Kait Carson
Snoopy begins his books with the sentence, “It was a dark and stormy night.” The starting line for the Hayden Kent series would read, “It was a frigid November 1st.” I just looked at those words and realized the series has a birthday, November 1, 2007. Hayden is a Scorpio, born in the year of the pig. Definitely, a blog for another time, but it explains a lot about her I never realized. A bit of background is in order. In 2005 following two years of what seemed like weekly hurricanes, my husband and I left South Florida for Wallagrass, Maine. I’d lived in Florida most of my life, and been a SCUBA diver for the majority of that time. Once in Maine, this warm weather wimp realized she was not going to learn to dive in a dry suit anytime soon—or ever. That didn’t stop the sea from singing her siren song. An Internet writing group I belonged to buzzed with posts about Nanowrimo (National Novel Writing Month), and when registration opened, I signed up. My intentions were pure...