Category: Just for Fun
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Don’t Worry, She’s Reading
Over the last few years I’ve been reading like a middle schooler with a book under the desk. It truly feels like its all I do with my free time. Recovery from the post-college slump was challenging, but I have returned to my roots with a vengeance and I cannot be satisfied. Of course, I…
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My Favorite Tropes: The Love Triangle
You either love ’em or hate ’em. Personally, I love them. Usually, my position on choices is that too many options only makes us unhappy. But my position on romantic leads? The more the merrier! A heroine (lets also admit… love triangles are only fun for a girl and at least two boys. I’ll get…
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Should I Do TikTok? A New Author Grapples with Changing Media and Age
The answer is “no.” But I’ll tell you how I came to that conclusion. When I began researching how to promote myself as an author, I started running up against some inconvenient truths; social media and email and blogs have been considered essential tools of the trade for a long time. Blogs of course had…
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What Will My Family Say?
I don’t know if anyone else has written something they loved, felt so inspired by, wanted the whole world to read… and then shoved it in a drawer at the thought of someone in their family reading it. When I was in elementary school I wrote a story about a couple of adventurers who eventually…
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My Favorite Tropes: One Bed
To kick off this series, I wanted to start with my (and everyone else’s) favorite trope maybe of all time. Discussing the story elements that we all love has always been one of the core delights of being in bookish community with other people. If you have a trope you want me to break down,…
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A Rejection Letter and Why I’m More Inspired Than Ever
I started this blog to chronicle my effort towards self-publication, but I had a secret. I was still querying my manuscript to agents. Being traditionally published is a life-long dream of mine, from well before the days of accessible self-publishing. It smacks of prestige, acceptance, and honor, even as it smells of exclusivity, burnout, and…
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Top 10 Useful Tricks that Fuel My Writing Process
My top 10 tricks for creating a consistent writing process! Spoiler: I don’t write everyday.
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The Spicy Scale
How do we rate spice* in our books? There is no universal system of measurement yet (and the US will probably have a different one from the UK) but we do have a common indicator. The Chili Pepper emoji. Here is my take on the Chili Pepper Scale. Yes. That is a pepper grinder. For…
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Books I Read Over the Holidays
I read 7 books in the last two weeks of December. Here are my reviews and where to buy them!
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Why Am I A Writer?
In which I rhapsodize on why I spend my time writing when I could do literally anything else.
Author Renee Savage 