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Busy Little Bee, Me!
It’s been a fruitful week. I’ve been maintaining my self-instituted pace of at least one sub a day, and I am almost out of old pieces that have never found a home, so it will soon be writing everyday as … Continue reading
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Tagged Dragon's Lair Artist Emporium, Etsy, Rie Sheridan Rose, taxes, writing
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Writing Tip: Putting the Sizzle in Steamy Scenes [The following post is rated Adult]
Some of you may know that I have a saucy alter-ego who dips her toe into the erotic. She writes the occasional tale, with a penchant for fairy tales. Her name is “Tysche Dwai” named after a Halfling D & … Continue reading
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Tagged erotica, ideas, Tysche Dwai, writing, writing samples
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GUEST POST: Nicole Givens Kurtz — Kill Three Birds
[Today’s post is a guest entry about the worldbuilding in Kill Three Birds by Nicole Givens Kurtz. This is one of the most fascinating worlds I have ever had the pleasure to discover. I look forward to reading future entries … Continue reading
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Tagged guest post, Kill Three Birds, Nicole Givens Kurtz, world-building, Worldbuilding, writing
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Writing Tip: What’s Your Word Count?
Staring at at a blank page can be daunting, but remember…you don’t have to set out to write a novel every time you begin to write. There are almost as many flavors of fiction as there were of original Baskin … Continue reading
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Tagged blogging, books, NaNoWriMo, novel, word counts, writing
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Writing Tips: Creating a Compelling Character
What makes Huck Finn someone that everyone who has ever read The Adventures of Tom Sawyer or The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn remembers forever? Why were so many watchers of Game of Thrones rooting for Tyrion Lannister to make it … Continue reading
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Tagged blogging, building your book, character, world-building, writing
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Write What You Know
So, here we are at the final story in RieTales. As you might be able to guess from the title, it was written at a time when I was getting a little frustrated by that perennial advice. In this little … Continue reading
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Tagged blogging, Mocha Memoirs Press, RieTales, Write What You Know, writing
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Stormy Weather — This Story Might Make Some People Uncomfortable…
This RieTales story probably should have a trigger warning, but when I first wrote it, there were no trigger warnings. I’m letting you know now though because the world is different than it once was. Despite a rather idyllic beginning, … Continue reading
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Tagged blogging, difficult subject matter, Mocha Memoirs Press, RieTales, Stormy Weather, trigger warnings, writing
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Today’s Story is an Homage to Mark Twain
I wrote “The Duke, The Dauphin, and the Dirigible” originally for an anthology that was doing Steampunk riffs off of literary masterpieces. I didn’t get into the book, but this story was too good to just throw in the trunk–at … Continue reading
