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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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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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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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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: 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...
Candice Bellows, The Story Engineer
Oct 7, 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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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...
Candice Bellows, The Story Engineer
Sep 23, 20201 min read
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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....
Candice Bellows, The Story Engineer
Sep 16, 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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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...
Candice Bellows, The Story Engineer
Aug 19, 20201 min read
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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...
Candice Bellows, The Story Engineer
Aug 12, 20201 min read
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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...
Candice Bellows, The Story Engineer
Aug 5, 20201 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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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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