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START YOUR AUTHOR LIBRARY WITH THESE BOOKS
Lately, I've been checking out some of the Facebook author groups I belong to, to see whom I can help. As I've been commenting on...
Candice Bellows, The Story Engineer
Mar 31, 20202 min read
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WRITING ABOUT RECOVERY
*Trigger warning: trauma and abuse.* I didn't mean to go AWOL for the last few days. To make a very long story short, I'm still very much...
Candice Bellows, The Story Engineer
Mar 30, 20203 min read
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LET THEM HAVE FUN
It probably says something about me that the only board game I own is Villainous. In this game, each player is a Disney villain trying to...
Candice Bellows, The Story Engineer
Mar 25, 20202 min read
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HOW TO FIND THE SHARD OF GLASS
In yesterday's email, we talked about the shard of glass and why it's important to a character's development. For some characters, this...
Candice Bellows, The Story Engineer
Mar 24, 20203 min read
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NOW *THAT'S* FLIMSY
Today I broke down and bought the 2019 version of Aladdin on DVD. I've wanted it for a long time and finally decided to go for it....
Candice Bellows, The Story Engineer
Mar 23, 20203 min read
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CHARACTER QUIRKS ARE ONE THING, BUT ...
Those of you who know me personally also know that I love Studio C. It's a family-friendly sketch-comedy show available on BYUtv and...
Candice Bellows, The Story Engineer
Mar 20, 20203 min read
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WHAT DOES BLOOD SMELL LIKE?
Last night, I was working on a story that hasn't quite decided whether it wants to be a screenplay, a novel, or both. In a scene in the...
Candice Bellows, The Story Engineer
Mar 18, 20202 min read
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A LESSON FROM IRISH HISTORY FOR ST. PATRICK'S DAY
A photo I took in the Dingle area of Ireland while on study abroad. That's not snow; it's a low cloud over the mountain. Recently, I...
Candice Bellows, The Story Engineer
Mar 17, 20202 min read
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ARE YOU SURE THIS IS ENGLISH?
One of my favorites from the photos I took during my internship in Oxford, UK While I was training to be a teacher, I had to complete a...
Candice Bellows, The Story Engineer
Mar 16, 20202 min read
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AN OFFBEAT WRITING TOOL
Remember how we discussed roleplaying games (RPGs) in the last post? Most of them, if you recall, require dice rolls to see whether...
Candice Bellows, The Story Engineer
Mar 13, 20204 min read
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THINK LIKE A GAMEMASTER
Have you ever played a tabletop roleplaying game (RPG)? Think Dungeons and Dragons or something similar. If you haven't, here are the...
Candice Bellows, The Story Engineer
Mar 11, 20203 min read
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THANKS A LOT, LATIN
Don't get me wrong. Latin matters. Where would we be if we couldn't get a bonus in our paychecks, try on an extra-large when a large...
Candice Bellows, The Story Engineer
Mar 9, 20203 min read
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OH, YOU WANT CAKE, DO YOU? *EVIL CHUCKLE*
I had one of the weirdest arguments of my life today . . . with a plastic container. After lunch, I wanted a piece of the leftover cake...
Candice Bellows, The Story Engineer
Mar 6, 20202 min read
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WHY DOES EDITING COST SO DOGGONE MUCH?
To answer the question in the title, I'd say that at least 90 percent of the time, a manuscript needs (much) more work than its author...
Candice Bellows, The Story Engineer
Mar 5, 20202 min read
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HAPPY NATIONAL GRAMMAR DAY!
Okay, technically there are no grammar mistakes here, but this made me laugh. Source About a year before I began my editing minor in...
Candice Bellows, The Story Engineer
Mar 4, 20202 min read
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THE MOOSE ON THE TABLE
My brother-in-law, "B," is a project manager for a company that designs hospital software. Lately, he's had to travel to Canada (I want...
Candice Bellows, The Story Engineer
Mar 3, 20202 min read
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DON'T FEED THE SQUIRRELS
On Saturday night, my house hosted a birthday party for one of my roommates. (No, she's not a leap baby; it was just the weekend night...
Candice Bellows, The Story Engineer
Mar 2, 20203 min read
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