Tag: The Neon Houses

My Identity as a Writer

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 The Daily Post prompt—Identity I’d been trying to decide how I wanted to represent myself in public. Two years ago, in an article for the Guardian, author Catherine Nichols told how submitting her manuscript under a male pseudonym brought her more than eight times the number of responses she had received under her own name. […]

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Cacophony Settles

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Steve didn’t know what scared him most—the screaming, “reeeeeeeeeeee,- reeeeeeeeeeee,” of the siren or the careening ambulance that almost knocked him down. A bit shaken, he stepped back onto the curb. He’d wait for the next light. Two-way traffic poured unto the boulevard, close enough for him to touch. Car stereos blasted pop, classical, and […]

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Who is Promoting Your Book Release?

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  I follow actress Gabrielle Union on Instagram and lately, she’s been over the moon about the release of her new book, “We’re Going to Need More Wine”. I haven’t read the book, but I went over to Goodreads and saw that it has solid four and five star reviews. This past Wednesday, on her […]

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Express

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I’ve arrived at the two-week anniversary of the Word Press Writing Prompt. It’s the longest that I’ve stuck with daily blogging, and again, I’d like to express my thanks to Stacey Troilo for the post she wrote for Story Empire Blog, October 4. https://storyempire.com/2017/10/04/novelists-writing-shorts/. Since beginning this journey two weeks ago, I will have written […]

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