short story
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Blog for New Writers-The Benefit of a Writing Contest (and which ones I’ve participated in)
When I first graduated from my English degree, I didn’t know what I was doing. I basically googled and scrolled Instagram till my fingers bled to find credible contests that I felt like I could genuinely trust. Because let’s face… Continue reading
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Becoming a Published Author-The Reality that this is Really Going to Happen
I’m at the tail-end of the first draft of Chuck the Chosen and the reality that once I’m finished, it will feel real. I can’t explain it and I’m not sure anyone who hasn’t written a book would understand what… Continue reading
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Becoming a Published Author-Mud, Goal Setting, and Rocky
Hello from the trenches! Your girl is deep in the mud, caked and covered, and in desperate need of a warm change of clothes and a long shower. But!! When you set your mind to getting your work into the… Continue reading
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Bully, Bully, Boyfriend Eater
I wrote this short story during my creative writing class at Queens University. It was interesting to go back and do some edits on something I wrote nearly 3 years ago before I started truly pushing to understand this craft.… Continue reading
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A Round Trip Ticket and a One Way Ticket
To my Lily, I thought looking out the window of this plane we are on would help me write this. Yet, the view of what would have been your home is getting smaller. I look over at you so… Continue reading
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An Assassin’s Affair
The woman sitting in the passenger seat of my car is mad at me. Not because I was an assassin who killed her husband, ex-husband she had reminded me last night, but because I slept on the floor of our… Continue reading
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Session With Dr.G
I came up with this idea a few years ago thinking I could use it to get into a creative writing class and put it down because I just couldn’t get it to work. Cut to the actual class and… Continue reading
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