THE NOT-SO-USELESS SNOWSHOES
In college, I took an outdoor recreation class, which included a day of snowshoeing in the mountains near Provo, Utah. I had a ball and...
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Candice Bellows, The Story Engineer
Apr 13, 20203 min read
SCARS
Update: My surgical scars as of August 2020 (ignore the patterning from my sock 😁) The other day, my roommate "M" set up an Easter-egg...
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Candice Bellows, The Story Engineer
Apr 8, 20203 min read
LICKING BATTERIES
My bedroom is in the basement of the house where my roommates and I live. This morning, while I was still half asleep, I kept hearing a...
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Candice Bellows, The Story Engineer
Mar 30, 20203 min read
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...
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Candice Bellows, The Story Engineer
Mar 25, 20202 min read
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...
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Candice Bellows, The Story Engineer
Mar 24, 20203 min read
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...
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Candice Bellows, The Story Engineer
Mar 23, 20203 min read
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....
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Candice Bellows, The Story Engineer
Mar 20, 20203 min read
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...
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Candice Bellows, The Story Engineer
Mar 16, 20202 min read
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...
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Candice Bellows, The Story Engineer
Mar 3, 20202 min read
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...
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Candice Bellows, The Story Engineer
Feb 28, 20203 min read
HONORING LEAP DAY EARLY
I had a hard time getting up this morning. Yesterday was particularly rough, I woke up in the middle of a nightmare that left my heart...
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Candice Bellows, The Story Engineer
Feb 26, 20203 min read
"C1" AND CHARACTERIZATION
Remember "C1" (my niece of the astonishingly large vocabulary) from yesterday's email? Last night, her mother posted on Facebook about...
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Candice Bellows, The Story Engineer
Feb 24, 20203 min read
DO *NOT* DO THIS IN YOUR DIALOGUE. EVER.
This weekend, a friend and I went out for dinner. During the conversation, the subject of musicals came up. I mentioned that I love the...
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Candice Bellows, The Story Engineer
Feb 10, 20203 min read
SERIOUSLY, RANDOM DUDE?
It's been snowing like crazy in Denver for the last several days. Having grown up in Iowa and gone to college in Utah, I used to drive on...
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