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WHEN WHACKING CHARACTERS ON THE HEAD . . .
As you might have guessed by now, I may have done one or two silly things in my life. Thankfully, some of them have helped lead me to...
Candice Bellows, The Story Engineer
Apr 17, 20203 min read
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ARE YOU WRITING FOR AN EIGHTH GRADER?
In my editing capstone class in college, I learned about something called popularization. Essentially, it means taking a highly technical...
Candice Bellows, The Story Engineer
Apr 15, 20203 min read
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JUMPING THROUGH (MORE) HOOPS
As the weather has been getting warmer in Denver, I decided to buy a bike so I could check out the local trails and get some exercise...
Candice Bellows, The Story Engineer
Apr 14, 20203 min read
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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...
Candice Bellows, The Story Engineer
Apr 13, 20203 min read
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BLEEDING IS OVERRATED
I won't tell you how late I was up last night working on a crochet pattern for my Etsy shop. (If you'd like to check it out, here's a...
Candice Bellows, The Story Engineer
Apr 7, 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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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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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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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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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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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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FACEBOOK AND OTHER REFERENCE MATERIALS
We discuss the weirdest things on Facebook, don't we? For instance, I belong to a Facebook group called Trauma Fiction. It's a place...
Candice Bellows, The Story Engineer
Feb 28, 20201 min read
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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...
Candice Bellows, The Story Engineer
Feb 24, 20203 min read
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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...
Candice Bellows, The Story Engineer
Feb 10, 20203 min read
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BABY, IT'S COLD . . . INSIDE?
Yesterday, my roommates and I woke up to a 58-degree house. It was about 17 degrees outside (#coloradowinter #brrrrrr). The thermostat...
Candice Bellows, The Story Engineer
Feb 5, 20202 min read
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