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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Unfortunately, my blog has become somewhat neglected lately. I am going to fix that. Starting tomorrow, I am going to write and post something creative daily. Stay tuned for more!
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Hello fellow writers and readers! NaNoWriMo is just around the corner again! (Where does the time go?!) I am participating again, and it will be my second year as the Municipal Liaison for SLO county! So what am I writing this year? Book Six(!!!) of my series: Beautiful Things. Here’s my Novel! I am exploring…
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I used to hate growing up without the latest technology. It was just my dad and I for a lot of my growing up years, and most years we barely scraped through financially. I was fortunate to grow up to watch the big clunky tan computers give way to sleek black powerful machines and the…
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All things must come to an end. The day we live through must give way to a new one tomorrow, the weeks and months give way to New Years and decades. Even writing projects must end, some of them earlier than others. I have a lot of unfinished projects. Daily when I write, or think…
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Yes, I am doing Camp NaNo this July. I’m working on several projects. Writing- Little Earthquakes- Based on the first album by the lovely Tori Amos, the story follows a young woman as she tries to navigate several disasters that threaten to destroy her dream of being a dancer. The Schemes of VKs (Descendants fanfiction)- A…
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There is something so exciting about finishing something.
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There is no proper formula for happiness. No scientists or chemists hidden behind machines, Spinning circles with different chemicals and substances, Searching for the answer. There is no formula for happiness, But there are ingredients to try. A smile full of teeth, Enough warmth to fill a chest, Laughter loud enough to fill halls and…
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Sitting up on the roof was not usually one of his favorite past times. He was usually afraid of heights, but that night, he had more on his mind than just his fear of heights. He had planned to just go upstairs and think in one of the empty bedrooms that none of the partiers…
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I have been so busy with work and writing that I have let the blog fall to the wayside and I apologize. June is going to be hectic, as I am trying to edit one novel, and type up my handwritten draft of another before June 30th. Hectic? Yes! Blog-worthy? Maybe… Stay tuned!
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I finished a piece. It’s a fanfiction, but I am going to post a link here anyway. https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11910039/1/Just-One-Kiss
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What are you writing right now? Is it a novel, an essay, a smut filled fanfiction, literally anything else where you put words on paper? First: Good for you! You’re writing. Second: Don’t stop writing and don’t ever throw it away. It’s important to your writing craft. Every Piece You Write is Important. Think about…
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To you, In your work attire, Scrambling past, I wonder where you walk. Is it to your place of work? Or perhaps to the child, That left the stain of apple sauce Upon your pants. Wherever you travel, I solute you, Woman of the workplace, Who power walks her way to the top.
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So you’re all set to start writing. You have your favorite drink or snack on hand, you have the timer set for at least 10 minutes, ready to get down at least some words that sound semi smart in this writing session, and you have your characters all fleshed out and ready to go. Or…
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Writing is a difficult task, and yet the easiest task in the world. All you have to do is put words on paper, any words at all. That, unfortunately can become pretty complicated when you add in work, school, family time, shopping, etc etc etc. When you add in all the other aspects of life,…
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2015 has definitely been a year of transition for me. It seemed to take a long time in the moment, but now that it is almost over, it seemed to fly by. A lot has happened in 2015, some things permanent and some things not so permanent. In 2015 I: Traveled by Plane for the…
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We’ve all read stories where it seems like nothing is happening. Stories that are boring, or slow, or maybe the characters just aren’t working for us as readers. I find that most of the time when stories bore me, it’s because the conflict doesn’t resonate with me, or that there doesn’t seem to be a…
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Welcome back to me! These past few months have been crazy intense with writing and work, but this months topic for How To Tuesday is Conflict. Fitting, right?
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As most of you know, I am usually a hand writer for first drafts. For this NaNoWriMo (which I just won) I decided I was going to type it entirely. I learned a few things along the way. 1. Typing and Writing are different: Typing is completely different than writing, most of us know this.…
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I am still alive, and going to post some great content soon! NaNoWriMo and Work are taking up most of my time, but either in December or January there will be new content. Thank you all for sticking with me!