Traci Ashbe Dark Epic Fantasy Author

March 6, 2012

Book Review No. 4

The Nine Lives of Chloe King: The Chosen by Liz Braswell Traci Kenworth YA Horror Simon Pulse Hook sentence: “Hey, King. How you feeling?” Chloe King has been happy to coast through high school’s anonymity but the explanation for her long absence from school (as arranged by her people) is that she…

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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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February 29, 2012

A Twisted World

The picture is from Claire at morquefile. A Twisted World Traci Kenworth It’d been my dream forever. To view the Eiffel Tower in person. Now, here I was among the busy crowds of romantic souls and tourists. Except I wasn’t really a part of it. I’d been zoomed in from the catalog room to…

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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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February 28, 2012

No Book Review Today, Sorry

I’ve been having some health issues that have kept me from completing another book for review this week. I hope, however, to be back on schedule next week with the conclusion to The Nine Lives of Chloe King triology: The Chosen. Going for more tests, at least, will give me more reason to drag my…

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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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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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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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