short stories

  • Bre’s Writing Process Part One: Pre-Writing Notes

    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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  • July Results and August Goals

    July has been a wild month, with several trips, loads of homework and a day job, it’s a wonder I had time to get any creative projects done. Still, I made a good effort in all of my creative endeavors. Here’s how I did: July Results Write One Short Story In July I finished one…

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  • June Results and July Goals

    June has been the most amazing month for the first time in a long time. I’ve had several writing successes in the last month, along with successes in school and life in general. I hope I can keep it up as we roll into July. Here’s how I did in June. June Results Write One…

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  • April Results and May Goals

    April unfortunately was not better than March. There’s always a lot of heartbreak for me in April, and I’m sad to say there was only more this year. Even through all of the issues I had through the month, I still tried to accomplish my goals. April Results Finish/Write One Short Story I finished the…

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  • This week, this month, writing has been difficult. April is always a harsh month with a lot of painful anniversaries, but the creativity never stops. Here’s a little look at what I’m working on this week. NaNoWriMo project from 2021 MAR has been dragging, but I finally have a direction and an outline. Short Story…

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  • 2022 Goals

    2022 Goals

    Here’s to a New Year and new writing and publishing goals! This year, I hope to accomplish more than I have in the last couple of years. I want to push myself to be more creative. Write Every Day This is a goal I have every year. Last year, I wrote every single day for…

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  • Compared to January and February, March seemed to move very slowly. With everything that’s been going on with the world and the virus, and home life and work life (yes, I am still working), it’s been hectic. Here’s how I did on my goals from February: I did not finish Under Grey Skies I did…

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  • Facing Our Fears

    I used to struggle with calling myself a writer. I thought that no one would care, no one would appreciate it unless I had something to show for it. I used to write in secret, and I used to let only one person, or a few read my works (and those were first drafts!). I…

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  • Sometimes we finish things ahead of schedule. We reach goals that we thought would take us longer than they did, or we give ourselves a long while until the deadline just in case life gets in the way. Sometimes we need all that time, but sometimes we don’t.

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  • Goals for 2015

    I’ve done a lot of talking about goals, and how important they are, but I haven’t really shared any of mine yet. I suppose this post would hold more importance around the new year, but goals can and should be considered all the time. The new year is a great reason to start new goals,…

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