Rachel A. Brune

Tag: #WriteFridays

  • #WriteFridays Exercise the Fifth…

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    In the past week, I’ve been on the road more often than not, commuting seven plus hours a day to make it to a Reserve temporary duty gig while still being able to come home to my sister’s house at night (she was watching my daughter.) Suffice it to say, I’ve been through more than…

  • #WriteFridays Exercise 4

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    This week, I posted an interview with author Stephen Christiansen, wherein we discussed world-building on the macro level. This got me thinking about all the different levels at which we interact with our environment, especially as I began drafting the outline of a new novel set in a zombified near future. So I offer this…

  • #WriteFridays Exercise the Third…

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    This week, I’ve been busy reading and reviewing books for various online groups. There are a few I belong to on Goodreads, and promising a review is a great way to score free books. I was reading my way through one, and something was bothering me. Then, I read this article on differentiating characters, posted…

  • #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?…