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Balancing Home-Life with Writing
Balancing Home-Life with Writing Traci Kenworth It becomes a challenge (with any career) to balance such with home-life. On one end, you have the kids, piled up laundry, dirty dishes, pets that demand attention, and at the other, there’s your job, that thing you do that supports/fulfills you. Writing is that for me. It’s…
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Faith
Faith Traci Kenworth One of the hardest things for a writer to do is to keep faith along their journey toward publication. Little doubts creep in, knowing, tormenting us. These are little tests I believe, trying our patience, our nerves. They can determine where we fall along the way, and how we pick ourselves…
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My Writing Style
My Writing Style Traci Kenworth This is something I see discussed a lot by other writers: what their style is when it comes to their writing. Finding it. Embracing it. Expanding on it. To be honest, it’s not something I concentrate on. I’m afraid I’ll mess things up too much if I tinker with…
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An Interview with Rebekah L. Purdy
An Interview with Rebekah L. Purdy Traci Kenworth Today I have with me a special guest, one of the ladies of YoungAdultFictionFanatics (YAFF), a good friend of mine, and one of my favorite writers: Rebekah L. Purdy. I can’t say enough about how much I admire her. She has been an inspiration and…
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Settings for Horror
Settings for Horror Traci Kenworth Settings for horror can happen anywhere. From basements to dining rooms, outdoors to in, present day to long ago. But you’re main concern here is what evokes terror for you? I’m talking: heart-pumping, sick to your stomach, ready to crawl through a narrow pipe to escape fear. It has…
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How to Place Your Characters
How to Place Your Characters Introductions Traci Kenworth So you’ve come up with the great idea and it’s burning a hole through your gut, just aching to be written. How do you know where to begin? Should it be with Grandpa Sneitzler? The maid? The boy down on the dairy farm? Who to pick?…
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How to Breathe Life into Your Characters Part VIII
How to Breathe Life into Your Characters Part VIII Endings: The All Important Stop Traci Kenworth Next to your beginning hook, your ending may very well be the most challenging to write. Readers want to be satisfied, to be carried through “the dream” they’ve been exposed to. And, no, I’m not saying here to…
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How to Breathe Life into Your Characters VII
How to Breathe Life Into Your Characters VII Dumpy Middles We’ve all been there. The wondering if you’re on the right course, if you should pack up your manuscript in a drawer and forget it, or so on. This usually happens around the middle of your novel. You’re losing steam from the exciting beginning…
Forgiveness, Redemption, Hope
Traci Dowe/Kenworth Gothic Fantasy
Traci Ashbe Dark Fantasy Author
Redemption, Forgiveness, and Hope
http://www.tracidowekenworth.com 2025
Traci Ashbe Dark Fantasy Author 