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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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Book Review | Foul is Fair by Hannah Capin

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**Disclaimer: I received a free advanced reader’s copy of Foul is Fair by Hannah Capin through NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. Thank you to them and the publishers for this opportunity.

Foul is Fair by Hannah Capin is a Macbeth retelling as a YA contemporary novel. All the characters from the iconic Shakespearean tragedy have been translated into well off high school students in sunny California. I gave this book 5 stars on Goodreads.

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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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