Hello, world. I'm still here. 2016 has been a really, really tough year for me. It's been downright wretched for the world at large. I'm not sad to see it go. The Move is still in progress. We've bought a house that we move into in February, and life sh ...
There was a time after college when my friend Vijay and I had a lack of external structure. There was no more school, and work was hard to find. So we would meet at a local library to work on our writing together. We spent our days working in studious sil ...
I'm sitting in a rental minivan, having dropped off the last of our cars with its new owner this morning. My apartment is being disassembled by highly competent movers. My bags are packed. Today is Moving Day 1. My apartment gets packed up an ...
Today is my last day at The Day Job. My coworkers are taking me to lunch--I chose the local BBQ joint, as American barbeque is not something I'll get a lot of overseas. (It'll be damn good South African braai, excellent but not the same.) My desk was ful ...
I've never had any of the 'classic' dreams that people like to talk about--teeth falling out, flying, naked in a classroom. (All of that at once? Eesh.) I don't know why, I just haven't. In most of the dreams I remember I'm searching for something very im ...
I've got a guest post up on RWchat.com this week! #RWchat is a weekly Twitter chat for romance writers. Each week that I participate I come away feeling more prepared to tackle whatever my current project is. Here's a preview: You might think we read fo ...
This is not so much an informational post, because I have little in the way of information. It's a venting post. Because my mother is sick. A few weeks ago she started feeling nauseas, every day. She got progressively weaker and then went to the doctor, ...
I love my writing group. I built my writing group, and was tremendously fortunate to have attracted an amazing crew of people. Maybe the best part is that they're not worried about the group itself even though I'm leaving. When I was an RA they talked to ...
I'm a list maker. I love pulling order out of chaos. And I love my dear friend, Google, for providing me with starter lists. My mother is also a list maker and I got to crib off her lists for the Leaving part of this move. But my Google Fu is failing me. ...
My mom is super organized, so she made her moving checklist before I did, and I got to crib off hers. One of the categories was "subscriptions." She meant magazine subscriptions. Services like AAA and AARP. That sort of thing. I only subscribe to Writer's ...
I have a day planner, a physical one, quite a beautiful one, that I have not touched in months. It started well, with lots of good intentions. Then I reached a point where I was just lucky to make it through the day and maintaining the planner fell by the ...
Episode 13: Catherine's Tears Zechs is conducting a test run of Tallgeese by having his men fire anti-aircraft missiles at him. He shoots them right out of the air. Tallgeese is fast and deadly. Elsewhere, possibly Somalia, a battle is taking place, led ...
A Necessary (Writing) Retreat I have wonderful writing friends. A couple of weeks ago a bunch of us went back to a cabin on a lake for a writing retreat/vacation. It was marvelous. Taking some time out for you and your writing is one of the best gifts ...
Here's how my bio now begins: Bronwen Fleetwood was born in South Africa, raised in New Jersey, and is now returning to South Africa, making her some kind of doubling-back expat. A #rexpat? Something like that. Everything's finalizing now--the move is o ...
Episode 10: Heero, Distracted by Defeat Recap With a title like that, you'd think the episode would be more... explodey. Treize and his people gather to debrief. Une does not like Zechs or Noin. She doesn't like sharing Treize's good opinion. S ...
And now time for another gundam story hour (and a half)! Episode 7: Scenario for Bloodshed Recap I told you this was getting darker. This episode can be summed up as, "Heero screws up MAJORLY." Treize has managed to spread a rumor all across the Earth ...
Still in fun intro times here. Let's jump right in. Episode 4: The Victoria Nightmare Recap Lake Victoria is an Alliance training academy, as well as a mobile suit manufacturing base. Two hot targets in one. Wufei (05) heads straight for it. Zechs is t ...
Hello mentors and aspiring mentees! I'm Bronwen, host of this-here blog. I write YA that typically falls in the realms of contemporary, fantasy or historical, nearly always centering around a strong female lead. I volunteer with my local writing communit ...
The last update to the Monster Structure Worksheet introduced a lot of text, so much so that I had to split it into two pages. A full-color version with notes, and a blank version for you to write in your own notes for your project. I think now's a good ...
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Let us commence with the rewatch! Episode 1: The Shooting Star She Saw Recap Five gundams descend to Earth. All land safely except for 01 (Heero) which is intercepted by OZ's Lieutenant Zechs. The suit falls into the ocean and the pilot is presumed dea ...
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I've been wanting to rewatch all of Gundam Wing, an anime first released in 1995, for quite a while now. This show had a big impact on me when it aired on Cartoon Network's Toonami block. In fact, I wrote copious amounts of fanfiction about it. Almost two ...
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The #WIPjoy hashtag and prompts were started by writer Bethany Jennings. It made for a really nice little community of people encouraging one another. The writing community at large is very supportive, and #WIPjoy was all about the love. The featured ima ...
Major updates to the Monster Structure Worksheet! Scroll down to download full PDF What is the MSW? It's a combination of novel structure theories into one chart to help you visualize what-all is supposed to happen and when. I've been reading K.M. Wei ...
This past Sunday's question is an interesting one. We're often asked why we write, but rarely how we got to this point. So here's an overview of my steps along the way. I identify my earliest desires to write with the discovery of Tamora Pierce's IN THE ...
