Rachel A. Brune

Category: #WriteFridays

  • Flash Fiction … Maps

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    I made a terrible mistake when I subscribed to Chuck Wendig’s blog. Now, every Friday I get these little writing challenges emailed to me. Sometimes, I’m able to read and file(writing coaches need prompt ideas), but some other times, an idea comes swinging its way out of my head, demanding some screen time. This Friday’s…

  • #WriteFridays Number … Something … Writing Exercise

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    It’s been a while since I posted a writing exercise or prompt, but I’m feeling inspired. I sat down with one of the ladies from my writing group, who mentioned that she was having a hard time coming up with a certain part of the plot of a short piece she was working on. She…

  • Pop Culture Mash Up Special

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    If you’re procrastinating from writing by writing, it still counts as being productive, right? … um, right? Help me out here… Okay, gotcha. Anyway, I was perusing some of the flash fiction posted up on Chuck Wendig’s challenge from last week, when I accidentally read through his flash fiction challenge for this week. And then…

  • The Case of the Subgenre Tango…

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    This week, Chuck Wendig posted an interesting flash fiction challenge on his blog,** in which writers could pick two sub genres using a 20-sided die and write a 1500-max word flash fiction piece therefrom. Being geek-challenged, I used a random number generator and got “Grim Dark/Whodunit.” I had to do some research re: what is…

  • #WriteFridays the 25th!

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    I love milestones! And Writing Exercise 25 is, sort of, a milestone. I mean, 25 is a nice round number, even if it is odd, right? Right? Anyone? Bueller … Bueller … ? Okay … so before I get any more weird looks, let’s head into that exercise. Writing Exercise 25: Your character reaches a … surprise … milestone.…

  • Finding the Time to Write – Follow Up

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    This past Friday, my #WriteFridays prompt was all about finding the time to write, and for good reason. For the past few weeks–to be honest, the past few months–I’ve been stuck. Blank pages full of nothing. A few notes here and there, a few insights into how to resolve some plotting issues, but mostly nothing.…

  • #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…

  • #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…

  • #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…