Author: Laci

Writing Group: Short Story: Horror

The prompt this week was to write a short horror story. I don’t typically write horror so this was definitely a challenge but I am not unhappy with the way this turned out. This short story has been workshopped a bit and cleaned up – unlike most of my writing group pieces. Happy start to

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Football on Film

At the start of the football season I had the opportunity to join Keltin on the sidelines for the Tarleton versus Baylor game. Yes, unfortunately Tarleton did loose this game. That being said, the photos came out pretty awesome. I shot these on our Pentax K1000 using black and white Kodak 3200ISO film, shot at

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Author Review: Ali Hazelwood

While I do some additional editing and wait for some reader feedback on my manuscript I thought I’d bring my current readers some additional reviews. So I have read a lot of books this year and I have read a lot by the same authors so I thought I’d do some author reviews. Here is

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Writing Group: Poetry: Celestial Bodies

The theme for this week at writing group was cycles. I wrote about how celestial bodies were all interconnected. This poem was meant to be about constellations initially but it grew. I might actually workshop it a bit to clean it up and include some additional cycles like moon phases and potentially include additional constellations.

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Writing Group: Short Story: Interview

The prompt for this week was urban fantasy, with a twist. We had to write about someone in a seemingly regular profession and I selected chef. Urban Fantasy: is a subgenre of fantasy, placing supernatural elements in an approximation of a contemporary urban setting. The combination provides the writer with a platform for classic fantasy tropes, quixotic plot-elements, and unusual characters—without

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Washington: Orcas Island

Here is a little bit of a sneak-peek from our trip to Orcas Island earlier this summer. I will post more as I have time. Despite the time it takes to get there I would 100% go back in a heartbeat. Orcas is one of the San Juan Island. To get there: fly into Seattle,

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Series Review: Maple Hills

Sorry for the temporary hiatus, I’ve been editing. If anyone has tips on how to find a literary agent or knows one, please feel free to send them my way. I have also been reading a lot and it has been a while since I have done a series review. The Maple Hills series is

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Writing Group: Poetry: Doorways

The prompt for this week was doorways. There are many types of doorways. I choose to interpret a book cover as one such doorway in the below poem. Let me know what abstract ways you think about doorways. Happy reading. So many doors, so many pathsSo many possibilitiesHow to select a single oneA single door

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Book Review: Temple of Swoon

I haven’t been doing my normal book reviews for lots of reasons, mostly though because I have been writing and now editing. Seriously, getting that first draft done was not what I would call easy but editing is a whole different beast. That being said, this book I won through Goodreads and I got it

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