Candice Bellows, The Story EngineerMar 31, 20202 min readSTART YOUR AUTHOR LIBRARY WITH THESE BOOKSLately, 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 EngineerMar 30, 20203 min readWRITING 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 EngineerMar 18, 20202 min readWHAT 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 EngineerFeb 27, 20201 min readFACEBOOK AND OTHER REFERENCE MATERIALSWe 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 EngineerFeb 13, 20202 min read5 TIPS FOR CITATIONSBefore I became a full-time freelancer, I spent most of my career in traditional publishing. One of my first jobs was as an editorial...