Category: Writing Reflections
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Knew I was forgetting something…
Or rather, several somethings. I woke up early for a Sunday, with the realization that I’ve started sleeping through my first alarm and should probably find a remedy before I sleep right through the beginning of a work day one of these days. The plan for the day was to head downtown with the guys and…
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It’s Time to Read…
…The Great Gatsby again. When I heard the movie was coming out, I intentionally refrained from re-reading the book. I didn’t want the fresh memory of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s prose to be constantly on my mind while trying to enjoy Luhrmann’s interpretation. And enjoy it, I did. Although, I have to say, I felt to…
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Awesome sandwich…
You know how, when you’re learning to give constructive criticism, they teach you about the “compliment sandwich”? Having been on the receiving end of more than a few criticisms from folks who were unaware of this phenomenon, I try to always couch any sort of critique that I do – whether it’s a subordinate counseling,…
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Post-Launch Hangover of the Soul
Soft Target came out last Wednesday, and I am now firmly ensconced in that state familiar to all writers known as the post-launch hangover of the soul. It’s that time between the day you send your creation out to the world* and the moment you check Amazon and find someone has written a customer review…
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Launch Day!
Launch Day for Soft Target has come and – at least in my time zone – almost gone. I received so many kind words of encouragement, including those words any writer loves to hear, “I just bought a copy!” If you would like to pick up a copy, my book is available in a variety…
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Three days until launch!
I’ve been a little busy today. Church and music, then lunch and fellowship, and three shots of espresso to get me through this afternoon. First, there was work/work, and then it was the final edit/formatting of Soft Target to get the book up on Smashwords and prepped for its launch on Wednesday. (Hope to see…
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The process continues for Soft Target…
The May 1 launch for Soft Target proceeds apace, if slightly behind schedule. I just received 10 pages of second-round changes from my editor, to add to the 12 pages I received earlier and have not yet even begun to incorporate into the document. I have many excuses about why this is so, none of which…
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Taking the fork in the road…
I have to be honest, for the most part of my adult life I have studiously avoided anything that smacked of math class. Some of this was due to the fact that quite often when I look at numbers they switch themselves around, fooling me, pretending to be something else so that I’m adding sixes…
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My husband sent me flowers…
…beautiful flowering dogwoods, azaleas, jasmine, and a Basset hound and a cattle dog. Who are not actually flowers, but can often be spotted sniffing around the backyard that is seeing the first shoots and beams of our first Spring in the new house – a milestone I am missing what with being out in the deserts of…
Rachel A. Brune 