Rachel A. Brune

Category: Writing Reflections

  • #WriteFridays? Let’s do this!

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    When I was living in Texas, I joined a writers’ group that, once a month, picked an exercise from the book Naming the World and created an excerpt to be turned in for a critique. While at first I was skeptical of this group — I mean, spending extra time writing stuff that isn’t my novel?…

  • Thinking about place: Home.

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    (I’m currently working on a project that is a little different than my normal interviews. About a week ago, I sat down with two fellow authors in Raleigh, NC, and had an extended conversation about place — what it is, and how it figures in our writing. This week, I’m back in NJ, and the…

  • A Conversation with Markie Madden…

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    Recently, I was perusing a fellow author’s selection of titles, when I happened upon one that was quite different than her other offerings. It was while on author Markie Madden’s publishing Web site, Metamorph Publishing, that I spied a title that differed from her other offerings of romance and supernatural suspense. Her book, My Butterfly…

  • Coming soon…

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    Heads up! This coming Monday, I will be hosting an interview here with author Markie Madden, in which we will discuss writing memoir. She will talk about her book, My Butterfly Cancer, which details her struggle with and victory over cancer, as well as give some tips and ideas for writing in the genre of…

  • Getting over the ringtone…

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    This is an odd confession for a journalist to make, even a freelance one (which means that currently only half the projects I’m working on actually pay me), but I hate talking on the phone. Currently, I’m procrastinating from picking up my otherwise innocuous brick of a smartphone, finding a number in my “recently dialed”…

  • Writing again! (And a book sale.)

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    This marks the second day in a row that I have gotten some honest-to-goodness writing done. Yesterday I finished up an article for Task and Purpose, and today I find myself RE-writing a beat sheet/synopsis draft of Steel-Toed Blues.* I’ve realized that I need to do this because I started out panting the novel and…

  • Getting stuff done…

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    Sort of. I told myself that today is the day that I get back to it. That I start the projects I’ve been planning since the idea of getting off active duty and popping out a puppy first germinated more than a year ago. Also, the day that I get back on the glide path…

  • Coming up this week!

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    It’s been radio silence here for a bit as we’re getting ready for a new arrival. We said good-bye to foster Basset Winston, and are prepping for the appearance of our new human puppy.  In keeping with looking ahead, there are some fun things going to be here shortly. This weekend I will be posting interviews…

  • Writing round-up…

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    After posting about how I didn’t lack for content and wish that spammers would vamoose, I actually spent the next week writing everything except something for my own blog. Which is good, because I’m writing stuff that will posted for larger audiences than just my personal network, and will also mean a paycheck (or two).…

  • No, actually, I don’t want your free content, Mr. Spamtastic.

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    I’m sitting here, thinking about innovation (actually, staring at a blank document trying to think of how to write this article on innovation that was due *ahem* days ago), and I decided to clean out my spam box. I also decided to head over to Twitter, and surf the #Mondayblogs selection to see what all…