Category: A Writer’s Life
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Answering My Blog’s Search Term Results Pt. 2
A year ago I compiled all the ridiculous search terms that led to my blog. WordPress is a lil rascal and won’t show me all the search terms unless I pay, but I’ve been able to pick out some pretty weird ones from what WordPress does show me from the past year. I decided to do another […]
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So You Want to Be a Writer? Here’s 10 Things You Need to Know
So you think you’re pretty decent with words and you enjoy telling stories, and you want to be a writer. You should think you might want to be a writer. Here’s what you need to know about being one. (Note: This post is mostly cynical humor as I speak out about the harsh reality of […]
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Why Taking Breaks from Writing is Important
Taking breaks is important. As mortal Earthlings, moderation with everything is vital; we can’t handle too much of anything. This is why we sleep at night. This is why we take breaks at work. This is why we take school breaks during the summer and Christmas time. And this is also why we should take breaks […]
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Bullet Journal: Organization for Creatives
I’ve published a few bullet journal posts in the past with my writing bullet journal (which disappeared and hasn’t been attained since) and my first regular bullet journal (which I tried to use to put my life in order and that fell apart). It took me a while to pick up bullet journaling again, but […]
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The Writer’s Tag
Deborah Kelty is a Christian writer based in Wales (how awesome is that?). She recently tagged me for the “When You Learn More About me” Writer’s Questionnaire, an honor I am axcited to participate in (mostly because that saves me from having to come up with a blog post topic for Tuesday, I’ll be […]
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Fixing Tropes in Fantasy Fiction
The Google dictionary defines the fantasy genre as “a genre of imaginative fiction involving magic and adventure, especially in a setting other than the real world.” With fantasy, you have freedom. You can make whatever you want possible. You can create your own worlds, your own species, your own rules and laws. And yet, fantasy […]
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Liebster Award Tag + 11 Questions Answered
Hey look! The wonderful Hannah Krynicki tagged me in her post for the Liebster Award. She’s an awesome person and writer with brilliant ideas and thoughts, so please, check out her blog and give her a follow. Thanks Hannah! So, tags have rules. I need to answer 11 questions, list 11 random facts, tag 11 […]