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Candice Bellows, The Story Engineer
Dec 9, 20201 min read
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...
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Candice Bellows, The Story Engineer
Dec 2, 20201 min read
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...
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Candice Bellows, The Story Engineer
Nov 25, 20201 min read
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...
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Candice Bellows, The Story Engineer
Nov 18, 20201 min read
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...
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Candice Bellows, The Story Engineer
Nov 11, 20201 min read
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...
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Candice Bellows, The Story Engineer
Nov 4, 20201 min read
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...
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Candice Bellows, The Story Engineer
Oct 28, 20201 min read
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...
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Candice Bellows, The Story Engineer
Oct 21, 20201 min read
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,...
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Candice Bellows, The Story Engineer
Oct 14, 20201 min read
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...
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Candice Bellows, The Story Engineer
Oct 7, 20201 min read
WRITING-PROMPT WEDNESDAY: YOUR NERD IS SHOWING
When I lived in Denver, I went to a unit of my church whose members were all young single adults (ages eighteen to thirty). Besides...
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Candice Bellows, The Story Engineer
Sep 30, 20201 min read
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....
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Candice Bellows, The Story Engineer
Sep 23, 20201 min read
WRITING-PROMPT WEDNESDAY: RECHARGING
Do you ever have those times when you feel totally burned out and don't know why? I'm in the middle of one right now. Between all the...
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Candice Bellows, The Story Engineer
Sep 16, 20201 min read
WRITING-PROMPT WEDNESDAY: HOPE
Is anyone else ready to get off this roller coaster that calls itself 2020? (Frankly, I've been on a roller coaster since about 2013....
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Candice Bellows, The Story Engineer
Sep 2, 20201 min read
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...
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Candice Bellows, The Story Engineer
Aug 26, 20201 min read
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...
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Candice Bellows, The Story Engineer
Aug 19, 20201 min read
WRITING-PROMPT WEDNESDAY: FLASH-FICTION-ING CLASSICS
The other day, one of my LinkedIn contacts and I got into a discussion about Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey. Neither of us was a big fan...
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Candice Bellows, The Story Engineer
Aug 12, 20201 min read
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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