Bre O’Brien
Bre O’Brien is the author of several fantasy novels and short stories. She focuses on the middle ground of writing, places where the medical meets the magical, the possible meets the impossible, and the real meets the unreal.
She’s been a longtime collector of unlikely book boyfriends- starting with Frodo Baggins when she was 10. In middle and high school, she wrote her crushes down on paper as the love interests with overly complicated names. Every night before going to bed, she’d tell herself a bedtime story of romantic couples and magical places to drift off to sleep.
As a recent graduate of Southern New Hampshire University with a bachelor’s in English and Creative Writing, and a current student in the MFA program at SNHU, she loves to find new ways to play with all aspects of story. She works as a nurse in a juvenile detention center where there is no shortage of stories.
Every story deserves to be told no matter how heartbreaking or strange.
Bre lives on the Central Coast of California with her husband where they spend every other weekend going on fun adventures throughout the state.
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On yet another blog post concerning social media marketing, this week we’re discussing Orkut, the social networking site named after Google’s creator: Orkut Buyukkokten. Background The social networking site launched in 2004, which is considered early in the days of social media. It shut down in 2014, another temporary social media platform that did not
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I have wanted to be a successful writer since I was about fourteen. Throughout my teens and 20’s, I was doing pretty well, or at least putting words down on the page and practicing my craft. Then came the disastrous year of 2024. 2024 and 2025 have been challenges for writing time and other things
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Writing never has to be perfect. It does have to be understandable. A writing session can be anything from 1 word and beyond. If you wrote on your phone, you’re still a writer. Reading is inhaling, writing is exhaling. Not all days have to be writing days. Some days you can just live. Art inspires
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Some affiliate links listed here, gotta pay the bills somehow, right? When I first began to write seriously (Ok fine, semi-seriously) at around 14, I had no smart devices or even a computer. I started writing my first novel in a spiral bound notebook with a pencil. I highly caution against that as I have
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I can’t believe we’re in April. April, despite being the start of Spring and warmer weather, is always a horrible month for me. Not only do I have two birthdays followed by death days (yeah, those suck hardcore!), but there are several anniversaries of deaths over the last few years, birthdays of those who have
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Here I am a day late. (Darn work schedules!) It’s April which means it’s the start of a new quarter. Out with Quarter One and in with the new! Here’s a reminder of what I said I wanted to do in the first quarter of 2025: Overall Publish more consistently online and build online presence.
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Well, it’s happened. I woke up to the news this morning that NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) will be no more. They’re shutting down. Part of me hopes this is an April Fools’ prank. Part of me feels like a weight is lifted from my shoulders. After the controversy in 2023, and so many more
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Here we are in 2025, a new year, a new opportunity to make things better than last year. New year, new goals. All of that positive new year stuff. There was a lot I wanted to do in 2024 that has now moved in to 2025. I wanted 2024 to be better, but life sucks
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Here we are in 2025! This year already feels like a breath of fresh air. A new book with 365 pages to make something with. Because 2024 was so terrible, I’ve decided I’m going to move to quarterly goals for 2025. That way, I have more time to focus on goals, more time to complete
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Is it finally gone? Did we make it through that awful year? Ok, good. The me at the start of 2024 and the me now are two vastly different people. In 2024, before the chaos hit, I had a lot of goals I wanted to reach and projects I wanted to get done. A quick
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Christmas is different this year, With so many friends and family missing from our table. So many stories left untold, Lives left unlived. Things lost that can never be returned. Still we sing Christmas Carols, Wish good tidings, And quietly pray for a better year ahead.
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I’ve always called myself a writer, ever since I started writing little short stories I never finished at 7. I’ve always used writing as an escape, from life, from homework, from friends and family. It’s taken me years (and an SSRI, and ADHD medication) to realize that wasn’t completely healthy. But when I was a
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This year has been the most difficult year I can remember. Emotionally, I’m drained. Physically, I’m tired. Mentally, I’m frazzled. But I am on the mend. All of 2024 has been one shit show after the other, starting 6 days into the new year! Tragedy after tragedy, death after death, loss after loss. But through
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Usually, April is filled with a frenzy to get words and complete another writing challenge for NaNoWriMo. Camp NaNoWriMo takes place every April and July, but after the recent events around NaNoWriMo, just the thought of it makes me feel icky. I held strong through November as one of the Municipal Liaisons, but as soon
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March was a month of ups and downs. There were a lot of successes this month, but also a lot of losses and hardships. There were several events that were more important than writing and creating and that was ok. My goals this month were hit and miss in several ways, but I did what
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Over the past few months, I’ve been playing around with my writing process and figuring out what works and what doesn’t. It’s a relatively slow process with a little bit of fine-tuning here and there between every day life. I’m doing a deep dive of my process and playing around with what works and throwing
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February is over and gone (with an extra day even!). Thankfully, February was better than January as far as writing and creating and getting back into a routine, but not by much. There were still family and friend health issues and the usual distractions and set backs, but overall, I think February went pretty well.