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The Ink on the Page by Traci Dowe/Kenworth
June 13, 2025 The Ink on the Page Traci Dowe/Kenworth I want to talk a bit about a tool I use that I’ve come to like quite a bit. It’s called AutoCrit. It is a platform that helps writers create their work. But it goes beyond that in helpfulness. It has the tools of WordPress,…
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June 3, 2025
The Damsel in Distress with a Twist Traci Dowe/Kenworth June 3, 2026 The New Damsel in Distress with a Twist Traci Dowe/Kenworth I was reading The Fantasy Café’s series on Women Writers in SF & F recently when comments by Lyndsey Byrd struck me with what I’ve come to know myself with writing in these…
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Mar. 22, 2025 Making Life Better Traci Dowe/Kenworth
April 22, 2025 Making Life Better Traci Dowe/Kenworth The title of this post makes me pause. In today’s crisis, it seems harder and harder to find something good, at least in politics and our economy. However, good is still with us. It’s there in a baby’s smile; in an elderly couple’s handholding, two against the…
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April 6, 2025 A Bit of Insight by Traci Dowe/Kenworth
Mar. 4, 2025 A Bit of Insight Traci Dowe/Kenworth So yet again, they’ll be some changes to marketing my stories as well as my website, lol. After a MG & YA Club meeting, I discovered when we were looking at book covers, that my books fit into both YA as well as NA (new adult)…
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The Ink on the Page of YA by Traci Dowe/Kenworth
Feb. 18, 2025 The Ink on the Page with YA Traci Dowe/Kenworth I’ve been writing YA since before I knew they were called YA. The thing was: they weren’t about just young adults. They were about families, friends, neighbors, the world around them. Life experiences include more than just the young adults, although they are…
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Prompt 1-Apex Traci Dowe/Kenworth Feb. 6, 2025
Matthew Bockholt created a discussion in Weekly Writing Prompt: 02-04-25 WRITING PROMPT SUBMISSIONS Matthew Bockholt Prompt: Write the first sentence of a story. Introduce the protagonist, main plot, and major conflict. <b style=”background-color: var(–bb-content-background-color); font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; color: var(–bb-body-text-color);”>Minimum Words: 75 Maximum Words: 100 I’ve got a new thing I’m trying out. Years ago,…
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End of the Year Post by Traci Dowe/Kenworth in which, all great minds think alike!
Dec. 31, 2024 The Year in Review Traci Dowe/Kenworth Over the years, I’ve come to know and appreciate a lot of you bloggers. I’ve learned things from each of you. As such, I really like what Craig (C.S. Boyack) does on his blog each year and I’ve seen a number of you others who do…
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Dec. 17, 2024 A Bit of Insight by Traci Dowe/Kenworth
A bright green and black bird with orange beak and feet. Looks like a sparrow, a small common backyard visitor. Dec. 17, 2024 A Bit of Insight Traci Dowe/Kenworth In January, I will be starting the 52Scenesforwriters which runs for a year and which hopefully, I’ll have a book ready by the end of that.…
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The New Damsel in Distress in Gothics by Traci Dowen/Dowe
The New Damsel in distress By Traci Dowe/Kenworth For many years, gothics were known for their covers of a woman running from a dark manor, frightened by something she’d seen. A lot of readers think gothics are dead but they’ve just been reinvented. Now, their locations can vary. So can the characters. Steeped in the…
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Oct. 22, 2024 by Traci Dowe/Kenworth
October 22, 2024 History and Its Consequences Loleta Abi The longer I live, the more I see those around me going to the greener pasture in the sky. At services for a dear family friend (and my brother-in-law’s sister), I began to look around at those gathered. I saw new and familiar faces. The familiar…



