Rachel A. Brune

Category: Writing Reflections

  • #WriteFridays the 19th

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    I’m sneaking on to post a quick writing exercise, which I realize will not only be the 19th #WriteFridays exercise, but will also be posted on the 19th. Small things like that make me happy. Yes, I’m a dork. Anyway, this will be the last one before I take a few weeks’ hiatus to go…

  • #WriteFridays the 18th!

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    This week I started to formally hang out my shingle as a writing coach, and one of the ladies from my critique group took me up on it. We met up, and after discussing the issue that she specifically had questions about, she mentioned that sometimes it was hard to start writing without worrying about…

  • Mail call!

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    I woke up this morning and opened up Goodreads, just to find out how many people had eventually ended up signing up for my Soft Target giveaway. My goal had been to reach about 250 people–even if they were only signing up for free for a free book, at least that would be 250 people…

  • Work in Progress … Exercise in POV

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    Last week’s #WriteFriday exercise was a prompt that had to do with perspective and point of view. For my own stab at it, I decided to get into the head of my antagonist, Dr. Gratusczak, from the Rick Keller novels. I say novels, but really it’s one novel, Cold Run, and a whole bunch of…

  • #WriteFridays Exercise 17

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    This week I’ve been thinking a lot about empathy and perspective, and it put me in mind of an exercise we used to do in my acting class in college. For this exercise, we would have to put ourselves in the mind of someone we obviously were not — a five-year-old, someone of another gender,…

  • Alternate creativities…

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    I spend a lot of my time writing, thinking about writing, not writing, wishing I were writing, blogging about writing, feeling guilty about not writing, or otherwise with writing somewhere in my conscious or subconscious. Sometimes, I forget that there are other creative works that I have percolating around in my mind. This weekend, I…

  • The blahs…

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    I’m dealing with a little bit of the writing blahs right now … namely rejection, envy, lack of motivation, and both a progressively cleaner house and a continuous lack of work. Right now, I’ve got a manuscript out on query – two publishers, one agent, two rejections. I’m not even sure if I love the book…

  • Behind the Mirror.

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    This excerpt is a sketch in response to this week’s writing prompt, Hidden Monsters. I decided to go with the same universe as my previous writing exercise, Side Roads. ~ ~ ~ The man lounging behind the counter looks like he might be a little too interested in what I’m buying, but then Jacob comes…

  • #WriteFridays, Exercise 14…

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    This may come as a shock, but I actually did last week’s exercise, and am posting this week’s writing prompt almost on time! (I try to get them up by 9 a.m.) This exercise was inspired by my current work in progress, namely the sample chapter for a nonfiction book on domestic violence. It’s going…

  • Side roads.

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    (This post is a writing exercise from last Saturday’s writing prompt. Join us every week for #WriteFridays – read, write, post, and share!) Side Roads I lock the door behind me. We’re in the middle of nowhere, and there’s nothing in the car worth taking, but it’s a force of habit. My sunglasses immediately fog…