WRITING-PROMPT WEDNESDAY: OH, WHAT DO YOU DO IN THE SUMMERTIME?
I come from a family in which anything is an excuse to spontaneously burst into song. Among the many songs I learned as a child was the...
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Candice Bellows, The Story Engineer
Aug 5, 20201 min read
WRITING-PROMPT WEDNESDAY: IT'S ALL IN THE BODY LANGUAGE (LITERALLY)
Last week, I visited my brother "T" and his family in Iowa. "T" and I were rabid Star Wars fans as teenagers, so he was surprised that I...
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Candice Bellows, The Story Engineer
Jul 29, 20201 min read
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,...
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Candice Bellows, The Story Engineer
Jul 15, 20201 min read
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...
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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 1, 20201 min read
WRITING-PROMPT WEDNESDAY: "HOW COULD I BE *THIS BAD* AT KISSING?!"
Screenshot from the hilarious Studio C sketch from which the title quote comes Today's prompt has been floating around in my head for a...
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Candice Bellows, The Story Engineer
Jun 19, 20202 min read
A WRITER'S SECRET WEAPON
Do you ever feel . . . like a plastic bag? 🎵 Kidding. 😁 But seriously, do you ever feel like the universe is trying to tell you...
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Candice Bellows, The Story Engineer
Jun 17, 20201 min read
WRITING-PROMPT WEDNESDAY: IF YOU HAD TO EXPLAIN IT TO AN ALIEN ...
I'm a big fan of the "Humans Are Weird" posts that have been on Pinterest lately. They provide short snippets of stories that explore...
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Candice Bellows, The Story Engineer
Jun 11, 20202 min read
FORMULA FOR A SUPERHERO
I recently saw Avengers: Infinity War (I know, I know, I'm super behind). It reminded me that I have a few other Marvel movies to catch...
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Candice Bellows, The Story Engineer
Jun 10, 20201 min read
WRITING-PROMPT WEDNESDAY: "BEFORE YOU FREAK OUT ..."
The other night, I was rereading a partial scene from my current WIP. For context, this scene takes place after the final battle, in...
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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 3, 20201 min read
WRITING-PROMPT WEDNESDAY: OOPS
One of my poor roommates is preparing for her nursing-school finals. I'm half listening to the videos she's watching, and one of them...
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Candice Bellows, The Story Engineer
May 27, 20203 min read
WRITING-PROMPT WEDNESDAY: COVID-19 AND A WEDDING
Yesterday's email got me thinking about how some experiences transform the rest of a person's life. Maybe losing a job leads the person...
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Candice Bellows, The Story Engineer
May 20, 20202 min read
WRITING-PROMPT WEDNESDAY: A FAKE BOOK AND A REAL QUESTION
A few nights ago, I was watching Secrets of the Dead again. This time, it was an episode called "Galileo's Moon," which—pardon the...
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Candice Bellows, The Story Engineer
May 19, 20203 min read
THE "RULE OF FOUR" FOR WRITERS
I believe I've mentioned in previous posts that I used to be a history teacher. It didn't take me long to definitively realize that...
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Candice Bellows, The Story Engineer
May 13, 20202 min read
WRITING-PROMPT WEDNESDAY: #NATUREFAIL
Remember the total solar eclipse that happened in August 2017? It's proof that great ideas can come from weird places. When I first heard...
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Candice Bellows, The Story Engineer
May 8, 20203 min read
NO SCREEN? NO PROBLEM!
As writers, we do a lot of work on computers. Even if we start by writing things out by hand, we end up using Microsoft Word, Scrivener,...
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Candice Bellows, The Story Engineer
May 7, 20203 min read
"AN EDITOR WHO LIVED IN DENVER . . ."
I just realized that almost nothing rhymes with Denver (#poetprobs), so let me try again: My city must not catch on fire. We're already...
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Candice Bellows, The Story Engineer
Apr 20, 20202 min read
WHAT'S THE WORD?
Has this kind of thing ever happened to you? https://www.pinterest.com/pin/483433341224769205/ Embarrassing, right? Besides the misused...
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Candice Bellows, The Story Engineer
Apr 7, 20202 min read
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...
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