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The other day, my friend posted on Facebook about making homemade baby food for her son. It seemed like any other post until the last...
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Candice Bellows, The Story Engineer
Jul 28, 20202 min read
RUDE, AUTHORS!
A few years ago, when I was between winter semester and spring term and didn't have much else to do, I read the 39 Clues series....
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Candice Bellows, The Story Engineer
Jul 27, 20202 min read
HURRICANE (AND CHARACTER) MISTAKES
The other day, one of my friends posted a picture on Facebook from a place called Hurricane Ridge, WA. When I first saw that caption, it...
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Candice Bellows, The Story Engineer
Jul 24, 20202 min read
DNA =/= SIMPLE AS "ABC"
About a year ago, I decided I wanted to know more about my genetic background. I took Ancestry.com's test and had to wait a few weeks for...
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Candice Bellows, The Story Engineer
Jul 23, 20202 min read
DON'T BE A TOLKIEN
Longer ago than I'd like to specify, when I was fresh out of college, I interned at Deseret Book, one of Utah's major publishers. While I...
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Candice Bellows, The Story Engineer
Jul 21, 20202 min read
STAKES FOR SUCCESS
Today's writing tip has to do with stakes. Not the ones you stick into vampires (although Secrets of the Dead has an interesting episode...
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Candice Bellows, The Story Engineer
Jul 16, 20202 min read
ANNOYING BUT INSTRUCTIVE
Last night, I really wanted to finish a crochet project I was working on. I like to have something interesting playing in the background...
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Candice Bellows, The Story Engineer
Jul 14, 20202 min read
WRITE WHAT YOU(R HEART) KNOW(S)
Today is Bastille Day in Franceâroughly equivalent to Independence Day in the US. So, of course, all things French are on my mind. I...
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Candice Bellows, The Story Engineer
Jul 13, 20202 min read
"A GOOD WRITER IS A VERY SMART THIEF"
In college, I took an introductory creative-writing course one semester (from the professor who gave me the quote in the post title). One...
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Candice Bellows, The Story Engineer
Jul 10, 20201 min read
THE NEW PACKAGES I PROMISED + A TIP
Remember a few weeks ago when I asked you guys what sort of services you'd like to see on my website? Well, they're finally up! These...
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Candice Bellows, The Story Engineer
Jul 9, 20202 min read
WHY YOUR CHARACTERS SHOULD BE WALKING OXYMORONS
The other day, I was talking with some friends who moved into a new house a few months ago. Apparently the previous owners were quite...
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Candice Bellows, The Story Engineer
Jul 7, 20202 min read
CUTTING SALEM (AND OURSELVES) SOME SLACK
Last night, I watched another episode of Secrets of the Dead. #quarantinesociallife #orlackthereof #historynerd This episode was about...
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Candice Bellows, The Story Engineer
Jun 29, 20202 min read
RESCUE THE ROOMBA--NOT YOUR CHARACTERS
Not the Roomba in the story--its cousin, maybe? My landlord and landlady are letting me use their spare Roomba so I can keep the upstairs...
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Candice Bellows, The Story Engineer
Jun 25, 20202 min read
WE NOW RETURN TO YOUR REGULARLY SCHEDULED BLOG POST
After yesterday's timeout-for-book-publication, today I'm going to keep my promise from Tuesday and talk about how we can use curiosity...
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Candice Bellows, The Story Engineer
Jun 22, 20203 min read
UNBOXING ... WELL, UNBOXING
Some of you might be thinking, "Where have you been, Candice? Unboxing has been a trend for a while now." I know. But today, I started...
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Candice Bellows, The Story Engineer
Jun 18, 20203 min read
ARE YOU SMARTER THAN A SHOWER-CURTAIN ROD?
Every superhero has a nemesis, right? Apparently mine is the dreaded beast known as the shower-curtain rod. See, my new living space is...
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Candice Bellows, The Story Engineer
Jun 16, 20202 min read
DON'T MISS THE MARK ON CHARACTERS' PROFICIENCY
I couldn't find a picture of recreational gun- shooting on Unsplash, so we have this picture instead. đ I'm finally officially out of my...
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Candice Bellows, The Story Engineer
Jun 9, 20203 min read
BREAK ALL THE PHONES!
We've had quite a few heavy subjects in these posts lately, so today, I thought I'd lighten things up. A few years ago, I went to an...
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Candice Bellows, The Story Engineer
Jun 8, 20203 min read
UNBOXING
My landlady has sold the house where my roommates and I live (we've known this was coming for a few months), so I'm moving to Colorado...
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Candice Bellows, The Story Engineer
Jun 5, 20201 min read
"THE BOYS OF POINTE DU HOC"
Tomorrow is the seventy-sixth anniversary of D-Day. If you're not familiar with the term, it's the name commonly given to the massive...
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