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Life as a Part-Time Professional Writer: Debut Novel Realizations
AKA: Trying to Climb the mountain in Flip flops When I published my first book (I say it that way because it will not be the last), my boyfriend got all excited. He loved my book, and he was sure everyone else would too. In his brain, we’d be rich in no time. No, he…
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15 Minute Stories: The 9 Lives of Bast
The kitten lazed on the floor in the patch of sunlight, reveling in the warmth on her fur. Lying on her back, she reached overhead, extending her claws, watching as the translucent weapons glistened in the light. “Where do you go every night?” She asked Thalia, the black cat who sat composed at the window…
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15 Minute Stories: All I Want Are Sunflowers
The sunflower waved in the wind, its heavy head rocking back and forth like a metronome. The yellow petals were slowly unfurling from its darkened face, like someone slowly stretching in the morning. She watched the flower out of the window, the tea cup she held halfway to her mouth forgotten as she sat mesmerized…
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15 Minute Stories: All that Glitters
The Prixiator surveyed his flock with a smug satisfaction. The pews were filled with the highest ranking families in the kingdom. The men were dressed in the finest silks, the whitest shirts, with gold watches and silver canes. The women were similarly decked out in whalebone corsets, silk, lace, gold, silver, and sparkling gems. All…
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15-Minute Story: Wolf Moon
He watched as the moons rose into the night sky. The first was full, the light shining brightly over the forest. Its light filtered down through the pine trees, bathing the ground in scattered shadows. The second moon was almost half-full, its light melding and blending with the first. The third was a slowly thickening…
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What’s Up? Summer Edition
Ever have one of those moments where life gets busy and you have to choose what to stop focusing on? The “I’ll call them next week” or “I’ll deal with that when things slow down” moments? Then you blink and you realize its been two months (or six) and you still haven’t done the thing?…
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Learning my craft: 15 minute story writing
So they say that writing is a craft, and like any craft, it takes time to get good. You need to practice and learn new skills and techniques. Find out your strengths and weaknesses. There’s a lot of ways to do this for writing, according to the internet. But I recently remembered something I tried…
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Playing with AI: a winter poem
There’s been a lot of talk lately about AI being used for writing and creating art. Some are excited and intrigued by the new technology. Others are worried about copyrights and the death of creativity. I’m not really sure which side of the debate I fall on, mostly because I’ve not experienced using it. So,…
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