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“…Rachel A. Brune writes with butterfly-knife dexterity: Always a flashy cut, a dreadful twist, a sideways chance at hope.” ~Randy Brown, co-editor of Why We Write: Craft Essays on Writing War
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Back On the Shelf!
This year, I’ve realized, I’m not getting any younger, and so I subscribed to a half a dozen gardening, herbalism, and green/plant witch podcasts, bought a bunch of books on herbalism, gardening, and the like, picked up a bunch of garden stuff like soil and fabric pots and seeds and plants, and got started on learning how to do this stuff. Continue reading
Posted in On the Shelf, Reading Project
Tagged green witch, plants, reading, writing
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On the Shelf: Empty Shelves…
haracters take me away. There’s so much research I want to do right now–history, and green witchery, and the craft of horror writing–and the more I want to, the less I find myself cracking open the book and just going for it. Continue reading
Posted in Reading Project, Writing Reflections, Writing Woes
Tagged reading, writing
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Some Author Thoughts on Kindle Vella
One of the hot topics right now in author groups is this new app, Kindle Vella. For those who are unfamiliar with it, Amazon is basically trying to get into the serialized fiction market, and has been pitching this publishing … Continue reading
Posted in Coach/Mentor, Welcome
Tagged episodes, Kindle Vella, paranormal romance, serials, writing
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31 Days of Art, Day 25: Cemetery
To me, cemeteries have always seemed peaceful places, where the dead are respected and loved. And so, this came out way more personal essay and journal reflection-y. Continue reading
31 Days of Art, Day 22: Elegance
The words… well, they wouldn’t matter as much, would they? Some trite pablum, forgiveness or penance, it was all the same. Continue reading
31 Days of Art, Day 8: Eviscerate
The normal sounds of the empty house settled back in. Mella held her breath just a few moments more, but the kids’ screaming had vanished. Continue reading
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Tagged #31DaysofArt2020, flash fiction, Halloween 2020, horror, writing
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31 Days of Art, Day 4: Curious
The scratch-itch-scratch over half-formed scars until they parted, revealing the moist redness underneath, until they healed over thick white tissue.
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31 Days of Art Day 3: Membrane
They hadn’t been wrong. They had heard something, out in the hallway. Was it their patient? No. Their patient was… They had abandoned their patient, left him out there with that… thing. Continue reading
31 Days of Art Day 2: Winchester
“They’re coming, I know they’re coming.” Continue reading