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March 10, 2012

Lucky Seven

I’ve been tagged for the Lucky Seven Meme by Silver Linings: The Rules: 1. Go to page 77 of your current MS/WIP 2. Go to line 7 3. Copy down the next 7 lines – sentences or paragraphs – and post them as they’re written. No cheating 4. Tag 7 authors 5. Let them know…

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March 8, 2012

A New Award–I’m Honored!!

Thanks to Jenny Keller Ford, I’ve been awarded The Paperclip Award. Here are my questions to answer: 1.When you were little, what did you want to be when you grew up? Famous. Lol. I just always wanted to be in the lime light–an actress, dancer, singer. I used to write my speeches out in acceptance…

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Arts, Cherokee, fiction, Harry Potter, JK Rowling, Marion Zimmer Bradley, Online Writing, Stephen King
March 8, 2012

Are You Making an Impression with Your Character?

Are Your Characters Making an Impression? Traci Kenworth When we set off to write our story, often the characters we choose are flat. They have no substance, no reason for existing yet, they’re a blank canvas. Oh, we might see them as a grand creation in our minds but they’re not ready, not yet.…

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Harry Potter, Hunger Games, Katniss Everdeen, Stand
March 3, 2012

I’ve accepted another tag…

Barbara’s Meanderings has tagged me. Here are the questions: 1. If you could be any famous person, who would you be? I don’t know if I’d want their crazy, publicity-hounded lives, but if I could be the female Stephen King and write as many books as he has, make them as fantastic as he has,…

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Arts, Book, Great Books, Hunger Games, Stand, Stephen King, Tennessee, Writing
March 1, 2012

How I get Myself Unstuck from a Scene…

How I get Myself Unstuck from a Scene Traci Kenworth I’ve come up against walls more than a few times when it comes to scenes. There’s a recent one when I needed a character to have certain powers—I just couldn’t figure out what those would be, so I procrastinated about it for days until…

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Art, characters, fantasy, Games, Kenworth, muse, Roleplaying, Traci Kenworth
February 29, 2012

Awards

I am totally grateful to W. Chaser for stopping by my blog during Rache’s Fourth Platform Buidling Campaign and liking my blog enough to award me. I’m both surprised and humbled by it. This blog started off as “the little engine that could.” I knew no one outside of my yaff group but slowly, I’ve…

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Art, Facebook, Kreativ Blogger Award, Rebecca, Sunshine Award, Twitter, Writers Resources, Writing
February 23, 2012

The Questions I Thought I was Safe From…

Well, Yikici snuck up behind me and tagged me, so without further pause, here are the answers to the questions. To be followed by my fellow tagees… 1. Where did the inspiration for writing your WIP come from? A couple different sources. Once upon a time, a movie called Stand By Me (Yes, Stephen…

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Arts, Chris Chambers, Drew Barrymore, J.C. Martin, Online Writing, short story, Stephen King, WIP
February 23, 2012

Dreaming the Dream

Dreaming the Dream Traci Kenworth As I’ve said on here before, my dreams often contain kernels of story ideas. They hit me when I least expect it and add such treasures to the day. But what about those other kinds of dreams? The ones where we see ourselves a successful author with hordes of…

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Dream, Dream Journals, Dream Sharing, God, Interpretation, Psychology, Social Sciences, Theories and Research
February 21, 2012

What Campaigning Means to Me

What Campaigning Means to Me Traci Kenworth If you’re a participate of the Fourth Platform Builder’s Campaign over on Rachel Harrie’s blog, you’ve been a busy little bee like me all week, visiting blog after blog. I do apologize if it appears I haven’t been through some people’s blogs on the list yet. It’s…

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Blog, Blogger, CAPTCHA, Directories, Google, Search engine optimization, Tools, WordPress
February 20, 2012

The First Campaigner Challenge Entry…

Over on Rach Writes today, she challenged us to write a 200 word sample that began with the words, “Shadows crept across the wall,” included the word orange, and ended with “Everything faded.” Here’s what I came up with. It is a glimpse of a creature I’ve been perfecting in my stories for a while.…

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