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WRITING-PROMPT WEDNESDAY: TWITTER. IT'S WHAT'S FOR DINNER.
The other day, I opened a new window in Google Chrome for something. On my settings, Ctrl + N opens Chrome's New Tab page, which includes...
Candice Bellows, The Story Engineer
Dec 9, 20201 min read
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WRITING-PROMPT WEDNESDAY: "CRYSTALLIZE, CRYSTALLIZE, CRYSTALLIZE"
Recently, I stumbled across this amusing Strange Planet comic: Now it's your turn: Rewrite a popular holiday song so that its lyrics are...
Candice Bellows, The Story Engineer
Dec 2, 20201 min read
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SPEAKING OF HOLIDAY DISASTERS ...
I suppose I asked for this one with all my stories about holiday disasters last week. On Thanksgiving, my roommates and I put everything...
Candice Bellows, The Story Engineer
Nov 30, 20202 min read
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WRITING-PROMPT WEDNESDAY: HOLIDAY DISASTERS
After the year my family's (live) Christmas tree fell over and made a huge mess, my mom started collecting other stories of holiday...
Candice Bellows, The Story Engineer
Nov 25, 20201 min read
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WRITING-PROMPT WEDNESDAY: GET OUTTA HERE!
Years ago, my sister "K" was trying to write a non-cliché fantasy novel. It became a common topic of conversation between her and me. One...
Candice Bellows, The Story Engineer
Nov 18, 20201 min read
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WRITING-PROMPT WEDNESDAY: VETERAN STORIES
Ironically for someone who makes her living with words, I've been realizing lately that I have a hard time expressing myself about...
Candice Bellows, The Story Engineer
Nov 11, 20201 min read
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WRITING-PROMPT WEDNESDAY: THAT'S A SUPERPOWER?
While I was teaching sixth-grade history, my fellow teachers and I started talking one day about weird "superpowers" we have. Here are...
Candice Bellows, The Story Engineer
Nov 4, 20201 min read
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TRY THIS UNDERUSED TACTIC FOR HUMOR
Much to the chagrin of those who like to gripe about "the good old days," language changes. All the time. Sometimes that can be a pain,...
Candice Bellows, The Story Engineer
Oct 29, 20202 min read
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WRITING-PROMPT WEDNESDAY: IF HALLMARK CAME TO YOUR TOWN
One of my favorite Facebook pages is It's a Southern Thing. I'm in the odd position of having grown up in the North but having lived long...
Candice Bellows, The Story Engineer
Oct 28, 20201 min read
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WRITING-PROMPT WEDNESDAY: I SEE WHAT YOU DID THERE
I realized I owe you the stories of the two professors I mentioned in the closing paragraph of yesterday's post. Here's the first story,...
Candice Bellows, The Story Engineer
Oct 21, 20201 min read
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VENI, VIDI . . . WHAT-CI?
I'm (tongue-in-cheek) guessing this was sculpted right at the moment when the subject stubbed his toe. This afternoon, I introduced one...
Candice Bellows, The Story Engineer
Oct 20, 20203 min read
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WRITING-PROMPT WEDNESDAY: LIFE HACKS
When I was a kid, my family had a tradition of picking apples and canning homemade applesauce every fall. Well, we did until a day when...
Candice Bellows, The Story Engineer
Oct 14, 20201 min read
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WRITING-PROMPT WEDNESDAY: "LIKE A GOOD NEIGHBOR . . ."
My social-media feeds are full of people griping about the presidential debate, and I bet yours are, too. 😖 So let's lighten things up....
Candice Bellows, The Story Engineer
Sep 30, 20201 min read
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THIS ONE'S FOR THE GOOFS
When I was about seventeen, I wrote a spoof of Treasure Island. The general idea was for it to be a short film, but that never happened....
Candice Bellows, The Story Engineer
Sep 29, 20201 min read
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WRITING-PROMPT WEDNESDAY: FAME IS A FUNNY THING
If you think about it, fame is kind of a strange phenomenon. Lots of people know about you for something you did. That something could be...
Candice Bellows, The Story Engineer
Sep 2, 20201 min read
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WRITING-PROMPT WEDNESDAY: MINIMALISM ON STEROIDS
A few years ago, my friend "E" wrote a blog post about minimalism. She said she wanted to reduce the amount of stuff she had until she...
Candice Bellows, The Story Engineer
Aug 26, 20201 min read
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DID THAT JUST HAPPEN?
The other day, someone posted this in one of the editors' Facebook groups I belong to: https://twitter.com/DanaSchwartzzz/status/12900993...
Candice Bellows, The Story Engineer
Aug 10, 20202 min read
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WRITING-PROMPT WEDNESDAY: YOUR SUMMER MEMORIES
This has got to be the weirdest summer I've ever experienced. I'm sure many of you could say the same thing. Little or no swimming,...
Candice Bellows, The Story Engineer
Jul 29, 20201 min read
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HISTORY AS YOU'VE NEVER READ IT BEFORE
Let's face it: things look pretty bleak right now. So today, I thought I'd take a break from serious writing tips and share this...
Candice Bellows, The Story Engineer
Jul 17, 20201 min read
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WRITING-PROMPT WEDNESDAY: OH, SNAP (LITERALLY)
For my email subscribers, sorry about the lack of email yesterday. Mailchimp was being a pill and wouldn't let me send anything, so I...
Candice Bellows, The Story Engineer
Jul 15, 20201 min read
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