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  • Wednesday Works: Caught Up in Research

    Antique Firearms The antique pistol let out a sad, soggy click, but would not fire. The main character looked down at the gun with a sigh. “Not again!” She shouted in frustration. She smacked the butt of the gun with her soaking hands, hoping to dislodge some of the water. “Man, is the author going…

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  • Wednesday Works: If It Doesn’t Fit…

    In her world, everything and everyone had a place. Each and every person, place or thing fit together like puzzle pieces. As she built her world exactly the way she wanted it, placing the people carefully in the city and the forests, building dark creatures between the trees and damsels in distress in the high…

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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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  • Process and Progress

    The process behind it, the quick choice of writing something I knew, something I cared about, even if it was rudimentary and juvenile. I got an idea in a flash and I wrote it the only way I knew how, with words, and pictures. I wrote it in a way no one else could, in…

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