Rachel A. Brune

Category: Writing Reflections

  • 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…

  • Dodging the Idea Train…

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    Darn Chuck Wendig and his crazy idea-generating flash fiction challenges … After writing a short piece for last week’s challenge, I made the mistake of glancing through this week’s. What can it hurt?, I thought to myself, as I hit the random number generator one more time. As fate would have it, up popped “X-Men” and…

  • And onward! Writing and stuff…

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    Last weekend wrapped up the series of performances of Twelfth Night by the Sweet Tea Shakespeare company. It was a heck of a ride and a fine group of people with whom to explore the creative. The experience shook loose the dust and cobwebs from off my fingers and out between my ears, and I…

  • The Bard, the beer, the inspiration!

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    This past weekend, Sweet Tea Shakespeare pulled up stakes from the Holy Trinity Church, where we have been going strong with our two productions of Twelfth Night and As You Like It, and headed down to Dirtbag Ales for a “Twin Bill.” (Get it? Ha ha. I totally didn’t … someone had to explain it…

  • Onward!!

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    The New Year is upon us, Epiphany has closed the 12 Days of Christmas, I haven’t finished making all the presents for this year, I have many plans for what I’ll do next year, I’ve made some significant progress on Steel-Toed Blues … and so it’s time for a quick sit down and blog type of deal.…

  • 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.…

  • 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…