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So Your Character is From Malaysia … Featuring Anna @ A Tsp & Naadhira @ Legenbooksdary

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / By Victoria Grace Howell

It’s time for this week’s So Your Character is … Post! This is a weekly segment where I interview lovely volunteers from around the world to give you a firsthand account of being a citizen of their respective country or having a disability. I’m hoping to encourage international diversity, break stereotypes, and give writers a …

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The Significance of Food in Stories

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Food can be an easily overlooked detail in stories, especially in books when we don’t have to physically show what the characters are eating. We can get away with generic words like pastry, meat, vegetable, and fruit, but food can add so much more detail to a story. Now you don’t need to go all …

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Goals for 2018

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I’m back, peeps! I didn’t plan on doing this post, but I’ve seen a bunch of people doing goals posts and so I kinda want to do one, so I am. I covered some of these things in my Monthly Summary/Year End post, but I tried to keep my points brief or else that post …

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Monthly Summary: December 2017/Year End Post

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I decided to skim over last year’s yearly summary and it really sunk in how different 2017 has been. Where 2016 was a rollercoaster of good and bad, 2017 was a year of recovery. I feel like I’m in the best place I’ve been financially and physically in many years. What I did: 1.) This …

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Holiday Matsuri 2017 + Winter Florida Trip Report

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I decided to take a break from the chill and head down to Florida to visit some of my good friends to spend time with each other and attend Holiday Matsuri in Orlando! We made so many great memories! Day 1 I bored the bus very early in the morning after freezing my bahookie off …

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So Your Character is From Sweden … Featuring Katrin Berndt & Matilda Sjöholm

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Writing Lessons from Movies: The Muppet Christmas Carol

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I love the Muppets. I’ve been watching them for as long as I can remember. I love the characters and I adore their brand of humor. They’re done a lot of their versions of previously-told stories, but my favorite one is the Muppet Christmas Carol. They took a famous classic story and gave it a …

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Lessons and Good Habits for Writing (and Living) Well

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This year mental and physical health has become a big priority for me, so I was very happy that Sara let me steal these interview questions from her blog which she subsequently got from Leanne Sowul’s “Be Well, Write Well” interview series on DIY MFA! You can check out her original post on her blog here. Let’s get …

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So Your Character is From Norway … Featuring Tuva @ Tuva Tovslid

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Villain Necrologies and Debacles: Christmas Edition

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It’s hap-happiest time of the yearrrr! Merry Christmas! In the spirit of the season, I’m going to be talking about Christmas villains! All of these are from classic Christmas movies adored for years and years. Warning: Spoilers Villains That Lived: Arrested – Jack Frost (The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause) was arrested by the …

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