Tag: blogbattle
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“The Antidote” EXTRACT #BlogBattle Entry by Sue Denym
Here’s to a fun entry by a new-to-BB-budding writer! She doesn’t have a blog of her own, so she’s here on mine to share her story today. 🙂 Enjoy! #BlogBattle word prompt for May: EXTRACT The Antidote by Sue Denym Dark clouds rumbled ominously. Rain pounded anything unhappy enough to be out in the storm.…
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Roanoke Project #BlogBattle JURY Entry by B. O.
Here’s a guest post from Bror for April’s JURY Blog Battle! Roanoke Project By Bror Orgenthorp “We have found the accused, Mr. William James Hagglesburth, guilty of crimes against the Galactic Coalition and therefore fit for the sentence of death by firing squad,” Juror Number 8 said calmly and slowly as to let my ears…
Rachael Ritchey
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June Makes a Friend at the Miscellanarium?
Good day on this beautiful April 13th morning (or afternoon or evening or night)! Here’s my April #BlogBattle entry for the word: JURY. This is a continuation from last month’s miscellanarian word prompt. June stood in a long line of hopefuls who wanted the job of the now deceased miscellanarian (who died with the word…
Rachael Ritchey
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The Binding Moon Festival
#BlogBattle is a monthly one-word writing prompt that I started a few years ago with some writer friends. Well, we’ve reinvented it and brought it back for our writing pleasure and your reading enjoyment! I hope you’ll find this MOON flash fiction short story both curious and worthwhile. Feel free to comment your thoughts! The…
Rachael Ritchey
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What Might a Peer Critique Look Like?
I’ve said before that critique partners–or more specifically, beta readers–are a must have for writers today. When we finish writing something, editing and revising several times, we begin to lose our objectivity with each pass. We can’t always see the mistakes we’ve made, and we can easily miss weak points because the story is far…
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Ch 1: Secrets of the Spokanee #BlogBattle #fiction
#BlogBattle 76: Debacle 🙂 Come one, come all! Read and write and have a ball! genre: action/adventure Choking dust plumed about. I pulled the front of my shirt up and coughed into it, at the same time squinting my eyes against the assault of tiny particles. With my free hand I waved through the dust with…
Rachael Ritchey
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Sacrifice of Sacrilege #Blogbattle 71
#BlogBattle 71: Sacrilege genre: fantasy Pious and pure, her life had been lived within the sanctity of the walls of the Goodness of Holuvenius. Only women, some young but most old, were allowed within this sanctuary, but unbenounced to their Most High Matron of Holuvenius, Clarity had stepped outside the bounds and brought upon them…
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Unforgotten Derelict
Blogbattle 70 “Derelict” genre: drama He was a derelict, wandering the country with no home, no family, no one to remember his name. Most of the time he didn’t even remember his own name. The cloudy day he’d lost everything still tasted gray upon his tongue, but he’d no one else to blame. No. Joshua’s…
Rachael Ritchey
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