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Don’t Give Up
Don’t Give Up Traci Kenworth Don’t give up, not even when pigs fly. This writing life we do takes guts, determination, and faith in yourself even when there is no hope in sight. It’s hard to hold on when the rejections keep coming in, the phone call doesn’t happen, your book doesn’t rest in…
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Traitor’s Gate
Traitor’s Gate Traci Kenworth We were loaded into the gate like a bunch of cattle. Jayse and I huddled together. My fingernails pinned his arms as we waited for water to flood the place. He flinched but otherwise didn’t pull away. “Cailen,” he said. I raised my gaze to his, mine full of tears.…
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Book Review 2: 2012
Cover of The Fallen (Nine Lives of Chloe King) Book Review 2: 2012 The Nine Lives of Chloe King: The Fallen by Liz Braswell Traci Kenworth YA Horror Simon Pulse “Dying can really change a girl’s life.” Warning: plot spoilers. I thought I would break down the three novels of…
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Do You Have to Force Your Writing?
Do You Have to Force Your Writing? Traci Kenworth Do you wait for inspiration to strike? Or do you get to work despite the lack of it, determined to put something down on the paper even if it turns up to be only crud? When I was a newer writer I admit to the…
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First Book Review of 2012
First Book Review for the Year 2012 Traci Kenworth Featuring: Anna Dressed in Blood by Kendare Blake YA Supernatural Horror. Tor Teen. “Just your average boy-meets-girl, girl-kills people story.” I actually read a hundred-and-fourteen pages of this last year, but carried it over into this one. Let me start of by saying…
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Learning as You Go
Learning as You Go Traci Kenworth So are you one of those authors that wade deeply into research before they write a single word? Or do you do enough research to get you by and then continue to do so as you go? I’m one of the latter. I can hear the gasps out…
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Keeping Up with Your Career
Keeping Up with Your Career Traci Kenworth Are you keeping up with your career? Do you research new findings? Study where you’ve been and where you’re going? I think it’s important to do so. Not only do you stay fresh, but it brings more to the bargaining table. Never stop learning is a promise…
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The Inciting Incident
The Inciting Incident Traci Kenworth According to Wiki Answer the inciting incident is, “The conflict that begins the action of the story and causes the protagonist to react.” I.E. Cas moves in order to confront/exorcise ghosts, he’s killed seventeen in the past but Anna Dressed in Blood is something he’s never seen before, even…
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My Writing Journal
My Writing Journal Traci Kenworth With the New Year at hand, I’ve decided to embark on some things I’ve thought about doing in the past, but didn’t get around to it. Yesterday, I pulled out my first book for reading in 2012 (although I read a hundred-and-fourteen last month), Anna Dressed in Blood by…
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Happy New Year!!
To all of you, I wish health, prosperity, the book, the agent, fabulous editors, and the courage to do your best, again and again. This is a tough career (writing) but it can be done, it can be fun, beneficial, a learning experience, and all other good things wrapped into a big red bow. Sure,…
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Traci Ashbe Dark Epic Fantasy Author 