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.
-
If you’re a writer first starting out, writing tips can be overwhelming. So many writers overthink the writing tips all over the internet. I was fortunate to write my first few novels without the overwhelming “help” of the internet. I was fortunate to be able to find my own way of writing and creating. I’m…
-
May has definitely been a month of highs and lows in several areas. For the first few weeks, writing and editing were not my priority. But I picked it up toward the end of the month and managed to be rather successful in my goals. May Results Writing Edit One Short Story Unfortunately, during the…
-
This is the third book by Charlie N. Holmberg that I’ve read. She is slowly becoming my favorite author, and not just from her books, but from her podcast Your Mom Writes Books and her instagram. That being said, I struggled to get into this book for the first few chapters. There was something in…
-
Writing can be a strange hobby to have sometimes. With all the talk of “publishing” and “editing” and “making money from your hobby”, it can easily become like a job. Over the past year or so, writing felt like a chore. I got wrapped up in the expectation that I need to be making money…
-
This year, April wasn’t as bad as I expected it to be. Usually April is my worst writing and creating month, but not this year. This year, I decided to embrace the mantra of “Fun!”. I often stress too much about little things and things that don’t matter. Thinking like that has made me regret…
-
Ten years ago, I doubt I would have thought of myself here now, Where I am now and who I was in that moment are markedly different. For that, I am proud. The me of ten years ago never thought herself worthy of time or love, stuck in those last few moments for so long.…
-
Between a few days off, a roadtrip and a holiday, the writing still continued smoothly, even though we entered the dreaded week 2! April 5th Today was an interesting day. I didn’t start writing until the evening, after a wonderful massage and a nice long hot bath. I finally had some self care after my…
-
On the first of January, I put out a few goals. I’ve been super productive so far, so I have to update one of the goals. The original goal was to read 6 books during the year. As of March 31st, I hit that goal. The new goal: read 6 more books for a total…
-
Here we are again in April during Camp NaNoWriMo. Usually I do pretty well in November, and April and July mostly suffer, but I’m hoping to blog every day (or if not every few days) to keep myself accountable for the month. So far, the writing year has been good to me. I’m hoping to…
-
As I head into the hardest month of every year, I’m thankful March was so productive. It flew by in a blur of homework, work, and writing, but I’m glad I was able to accomplish as much as I did. March Results Writing Edit One Short Story I didn’t quite edit a short story in…
-
Another month down, 10 more to go! For being such a short month, February sure was busy. Between schoolwork, actual work, and writing and creating, the month was the most successful month yet. Here’s how I did in February: February Results Writing Edit One Short Story This month, I did manage to edit a short…
-
She had lived in the old house for as long as she could remember. Her parents had lived in it even longer, and so had their parents and so on and so forth. If she did the math right it was her great x7 grandfather who had built the house for his wife. She had…
-
I honestly didn’t expect to like this book as much as I did. I rented it from my library via kindle and started reading it just to see how the library app worked. Within a few chapters, I was hooked, and I read the book in a matter of days. I read a book like…
-
If you are reading this, it means we have all made it through the first month of 2023. January has been my most productive month so far, and that’s not just in 2023, but for a long time. I’ve been able to set a routine and keep making progress little by little. I’ve never been…
-
This Review Contains Spoilers for The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux. And most likely Sing Me Forgotten. You have been warned. I have to start this review by saying: This is one of my favorite books I’ve read so far. I have never revealed this, but I am a huge fan of musical…
-
The day had been perfect. Coffee in the morning while in bed. Packing for a trip with no little petty arguments, excitement for getting out of town for a few days. Everything had been perfect. She had a feeling something was happening. Something in the air felt like change, charged with excitement. On their usual…
-
A new year has started and I am so excited to have a whole new blank canvas of 365 days to accomplish some new goals. This year, I have decided to do something different as far as goals go, and I’ve added more than just writing goals. Writing Goals Write Every Day of 2023 Even…
-
I cannot believe another year of writing has come and gone! This year has definitely had its ups and downs, but I’m happy I’ve been able to do what I love in writing and creating. December Results One Short Story As much as I wanted to write a short story this month, writing was a…
-
The day the mine collapsed, her new husband came home unscathed, covered in dirt and dust from head to toe. She counted each and every blessing as she inspected him and scrubbed him clean. Wrapped up in the desperation of newlyweds, she counted her blessings as her hands explored his body. Once they were finished,…
-
Thank Goodness November is finally over. I usually love November for the intense joy of writing, but this November has kicked my butt in too many ways. I’m excited we’re now in December, a brand new month, with brand new goals, but that also means the year is wrapping up. Time to get my butt…