Author: RachelABrune
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Short Story – Unsettling Hobbies
I finally sat down to write my own flash fiction contribution to Friday’s writing exercise. If you like, join us on Fridays for more writing prompts and sharing of the craft! The Appraisal The road in was long and winding, passing through fields stubbled with the last vestiges of the corn harvest upstate. The only…
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#WriteFridays Exercise 8
This week’s post is a little late, as I woke up early to drive my sister and friend to an appointment. I was going to head to the mall and go to Barnes & Noble, but forget they opened a little later. So I was stuck strolling around the Shops at Riverside with those unique…
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Things I’ve learned researching domestic violence…
Sometime in the middle of last year, I happened across a book offered in one of my review groups, and ended up requesting a copy of Who Am I? How My Daughter Taught Me To Let Go and Live Again (2014) by Megan Cyrulewski. In it, Megan tells the story of her long, drawn-out legal…
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#WriteFridays Exercise 6 – no – 7
For Exercise 6 7 (as Noah has pointed out multiple times, I need to include the Twitter exercise I put out the week I crashed my Web site) I decided to do something a little different. The following writing revision exercise takes a look at something you already have on paper, and focuses on one aspect of the…
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The author’s social media quadrivium – an online presence strategy.
An author friend of mine invited me to speak at an upcoming gathering of the local Probatio Pennae Writer’s Club, primarily on the topic of social media for authors. I’ve had a few other people ask me how I went about my own social media strategy, and so I thought the time was nigh to…
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The Bard – The Punk – The Steam
What do you get when you take a Facebook group of like-minded writers, a devotion to all genres punk, and an appreciation of the works of the Bard of Avalon? Sound & Fury: Shakespeare Goes Punk launches this Sunday, the Ides of March, from the somewhat anarchic Facebook collective, Writerpunk. In honor of the release, I…
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#WriteFridays Exercise the Fifth…
In the past week, I’ve been on the road more often than not, commuting seven plus hours a day to make it to a Reserve temporary duty gig while still being able to come home to my sister’s house at night (she was watching my daughter.) Suffice it to say, I’ve been through more than…
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A Conversation with Greg Hickey…
In a future utopia, omni-racial men and women live in a society in which all of their basic needs are provided for, as clear and certain as clockwork. Then, one day, some of the machines break down. I wasn’t sure what to expect heading into Our Dried Voices. It began with a long chronology of…
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A new look for the Infamous Scribbler: Scribbler Coach!
I am currently working on setting up a Web page on this site for my new venture, but I couldn’t hold it in anymore. I want to introduce my new venture … Scribbler Coach! Artist Krist Neumann, a talented friend of mine, created the logo in the header above. Isn’t it awesome? (The logo, I…
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