Rachel A. Brune

Author: RachelABrune

  • Fayetteville ComicCon Rundown

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    What do a group of nerdy people do for fun on the weekend? Well, if that weekend was this past weekend, and the first Fayetteville ComicCon was happening–we were over there. It was a super fun event, and I am already looking forward to next year and plotting who of my writer friends/Con vendors/artists I…

  • Saturday Spotlight: Jeffrey Cook & Katherine Perkins

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    Jeffrey Cook is an intrepid imaginer of worlds, a steampunk Shakespearean par excellence, and kind of a fun Facebook friend. If you have been at a Con in the Pacific Northwest, you may have caught a glimpse of him or his works. But since not all of us are so geographically advantageously situated, I have…

  • Saturday Spotlight: Felicite Lilly

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    As part of my new resolve to keep my blog updated (at least mostly updated, which as we all know is slightly more regular), I have decided to do a Saturday Author Spotlight. If you’re looking for something to read, stop by on the weekend and check it out. First up, Felicite Lilly. Author Bio Felicite…

  • #WriteFridays Exercise 23

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    With all the traveling I’ve been doing for Con and drill, and trying to write a book, polish another, plot another, and put together two book proposals (because why not), (and oh yeah, start up a new literary journal) these Friday exercises have been taking a little bit of a hit. Actually, so has my…

  • Con rundown and other thoughts…

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    It’s been almost two weeks since DragonCon, and I realized I haven’t actually sat down and done either a Con rundown, or posted a #WriteFridays exercise. Sheesh. C’mon, self, get with the program. First, the DragonCon short rundown. I attended Con with my sister and brother-in-law and their two kids, as well as my 9-month-old.…

  • #WriteFridays Exercise 22

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    The other day I was scrolling through my Facebook feed, and a few friends had posted about a firm that is developing an “augmented reality” game that shows monsters in your house. Apparently your phone takes a map of your house, and then the game shows you what may be lurking in the shadows. It took…

  • Excerpt, Steel-Toed Blues (WIP)

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    Finally sitting down and getting some serious work done on this project. This little excerpt, where my MC describes what it’s like to step across to the Fae world, just nudges me over the 41K line. Next stop–50K! * * * “Remember that feeling, going out the gate?” Rose asked. “All at once on full…

  • Pushing through the “almost-done” barrier…

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    On my last 10-hour road trip, I left Ladybug with her dad, and so I had some extra time to think (other than “Oh please go to sleep…” “Oh please don’t wake up yet!” With something in my brain unplugged, I had a moment of clarity on my Steel-Toed Blues project–the sort of moment that…

  • #WriteFridays Exercise 21

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    You know what’s hard? Writing. You know what’s hard to write? Unpleasant things. Now, I’m not just talking about writing a character’s death. For some writers–actually, for more writers than I feel really comfortable mentioning–it’s par for the course when one of our characters goes to the big literary Elysian fields in the sky. What…

  • The Return of #WriteFridays!

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    Last night I sat at my friend’s table for a mutual writing session, attempting to grind out just a few ndred more words. I’m stuck at the place in this manuscript where trying to get the story out feels like pulling teeth with a rusty chainsaw–not very effective, and kind of bloody. (I was also…