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Writing Wednesday | Things I Learned from #YALLSTAYHOME

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There was one good thing that came out of this pandemic for me, and that was the fact that I was able to attend webinars for #YALLSTAYHOME.  YALLWEST/YALLFEST are events that I’ve always thought it would be fun to attend.  However, due to the nature of my job and the timing of the events, I have known that I will never be able to actually attend them.  Fortunately for me, the regular event was cancelled and then reformed as a virtual event where participants could tune in from the comfort of their own couches.  I was so excited to get the chance to hear some of my favourite writers speak.

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Writing Wednesday | Falling Lies

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So, I have loved to write for a long time.  I haven’t always been the most consistent with it, and sometimes I am super terrible about following through with things that I started.  I used to be better and worse at the follow through.

As I was thinking about posts for the blog, I was thinking about Writing Wednesdays that I wanted to do, and I found myself struck by nostalgia.  I wanted to look at some of my old writing and I found a story I had written when I was in my final year of high school.  After re-reading, I thought it might be fun to share it with you all.  It’s called Falling Lies and you will find it below the cut.

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Writing Wednesday | Mamoru Chiba

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Hello and welcome to this week’s Writing Wednesday!

Fun fact: Ashley and I actually met on a writing forum a couple of years ago. That’s when we started to talk about books and everything else under the sun!

So here’s something I wrote for a forum several years back. It’s about the character Chiba Mamoru aka Tuxedo Mask from Sailor Moon. 

I would like to state that everything in regards to Sailor Moon is owned by Naoko Takeuchi, Viz Media, Toei Animation, etc. I don’t own it, I just wrote something fun about the character.

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Writing Wednesday | A Retelling of a Fairy Tale

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Retellings as a genre is something that is a more recent love in my life.  However, when I wrote this prompt, I hadn’t really read very many of these.  That being said, I thought it was a pretty genius to write my own retelling as the prompt was ‘A Retelling of a Fairy Tale’, and I fairly quickly decided to do my own version of Red Riding Hood.

The story is below the cut.

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Writing Wednesday | A New Beginning

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A few years ago, I started a 52 week writing challenge.  I fell out of it after a few weeks but I really liked the stories I wrote for it and I wanted to share them here on the blog.  I also thought it might be fun to continue on with the challenge here even though it’s a weird time of the year to continue a 52 week reading challenge.

The first prompt was for the first week of January and the prompt was ‘A New Beginning.”  You will find the story below the cut.

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