Cassandra Chandler

Category: Thoughts

  • Happy Halloween! (a little early)

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    Halloween is one of my favorite holidays. The creativity involved in coming up with costumes and becoming someone (or something) different has always appealed to my writer’s heart. This is also the Celtic holiday of Samhain, when the veil between worlds is thought to be thinnest. Those who have passed are free to return, along…

  • The Blood Moon

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    The full moon in October is sometimes called the Blood Moon. I’ve read that it marked the time when herds would be thinned to ensure survival of the fittest livestock over the winter. Meditating on this, I find that this is the season for culling. I plan to go through my things as much as…

  • Top Ten Things I Loved About ORACon

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    I had so much fun at ORACon over the weekend. Seriously. Here is my top-ten list of my favorite parts of the experience. 10. The drive. The scenery on the drive was beautiful with Fall getting ready to set in. At one point, I was driving through the countryside during the golden hour. The trees…

  • ORACon!

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    I’m going to my first writing convention this week! It’s called ORACon—the Ozarks Romance Authors Conference. I’m looking forward to meeting other authors and getting to talk face-to-face with my editor. It’s a very busy time with finishing the first round of edits for the second scifi romance novella, editing the third in that series…

  • Self-Talk

    Self-Talk

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    I can keep track of dozens of books in multiple series, yet I often lose track of the scripts running in my own head. This is a problem, because my thoughts aren’t always running along the tracks I intend. Often, they’re off the rails entirely. I can lose perspective and get bogged down in minutia—things…

  • The Corn Moon

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    This month, the full moon is known as the Corn Moon. It marks a time of celebrating an important grain harvest. I plan to use this as a meditative focus for the things in my life that are coming ripe and ready to be harvested, using the joy this brings to energize me as I…

  • Why Romance?

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    Sometimes people ask me why I choose to write Romances. First and foremost—I am a fan of love. The initial spark of attraction, the deepening knowledge of each other that feeds the fire, the moment when the warmth of the emotion soaks in soul-deep and they know. I can’t get enough of that. Second—I am…

  • Blue Moon

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    Today is a blue moon—the second full moon in the month of July. July’s first full moon was the Blessing Moon. I am focusing today again on all the blessings in my life and using this as an extra reminder to be always and forever grateful. Many, many blessings to you.

  • Many Blessings

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    Today is the full moon known as the Blessing Moon. I have so many blessings in my life. Too many to enumerate here. But I have been and will continue to focus on them, to hold them close to my heart, and keep saying a very sincere “Thank you” to the universe. And thank you…

  • Longest Day, Strongest Sun

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    The full moon in June is called the Strong Sun Moon. Presumably, this is because June holds the longest day of the year—the Summer Solstice. For my meditative focus of the month, I’m envisioning my projects, my goals, and my self at full strength. There is so much to do, and this is the time…