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Banner: Novel Structure Workbook Refresh

Cover, Interior & File Refreshes!

April 18, 2020
by Bronwen Monster Novel StructureProgress

Changes are coming to The Monster Novel Structure Workbook! I'm not doing a big launch event or anything, I'm just quietly making these updates and letting them ride. This post details all the yummy new shinies. Plans For a Print Edition I polled m ...

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Banner: On Nervousness for Writers

On Nervousness

March 6, 2020
by Bronwen Author Mentor MatchOn WritingProgress

Before each round of Author Mentor Match (a program that matches kidlit and adult writers with mentors--next round open Feb 13th, 2020!) the previously selected mentees volunteer to do query critiques for hopefuls. I always do this, because I love gi ...

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Banner: Organizing my writing space!

Organizing my… writing space!

June 24, 2019
by Bronwen OrganizationProgress

There are some things I'm good at organizing, like my writing files or my calendar. There are some things I'm downright terrible at organizing and always have been. I was the kid whose desk and floor were always covered in mess. (Creative mess!) T ...

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What happened when I didn’t have a plan for NaNoWriMo

June 10, 2019
by Bronwen On WritingProgress

2017 was not a good National Novel Writing Month for me. Gearing Up Only a few months before November I was hit with an idea, an idea I loved and could foresee growing into something awesome. It was a YA dystopia inspired by some gruesome things bu ...

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Newsletter Transition & Query+1st Page Critique Offer! Enter by Mar 1

February 26, 2018
by Bronwen Progress

This is the last blog post to go out to my mailing list as a newsletter-type-entry. Why? Because I've done some research and found that a newsletter--emails written specifically to be sent as a newsletter--are more popular than blog posts. Initially ...

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Mid-NaNoWriMo Check-in 2017

November 15, 2017
by Bronwen NovelsProgressThe Silk That Cuts

Things haven't exactly gone as predicted this year. My habit, in years past, has been to spend the whole summer before NaNo preparing. I outline the hell out of it, which frees my mind up from worrying about plot to concentrate on prose. This year I ...

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Prepping for NaNoWriMo 2017

October 25, 2017
by Bronwen In Her Own SkinOn WritingProgress

I'm impatient to get going this year. I mean, there's always some impatience going in, but this year feels stronger than in the past. It's a mixture of excitement and anxiety. And just plain, "But I wanna!" I realize that I didn't actually blog abou ...

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Second Place in the YARWA Rosemary Contest!

July 27, 2017
by Bronwen In Her Own SkinProgress

All day I've been on tenterhooks. The last week has had an element of the surreal. The last month even more so. Today the winners and finalists for the Young Adult Romance Writers of America's 2017 Rosemary contest were announced. My manuscript, IN ...

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I’m a finalist for the 2017 Rosemary Award!

June 9, 2017
by Bronwen In Her Own SkinProgress

This is the second major good news of the last couple of weeks. I actually learned about it around the same time I got into #QueryKombat (Round 2 Entry), but didn't want to say anything until finalists were announced. The Rosemary is an award given ...

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I’m in #QueryKombat 2017!

June 6, 2017
by Bronwen In Her Own SkinOn WritingProgress

I was selected for QueryKombat! QK is a contest where queries and novel excerpts are pitted against each other, bracket-style, until the strongest query is reached. I'm on Laura Heffernan's team, competing with the query for IN HER OWN SKIN, my YA ...

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Counting Down 2016

December 28, 2016
by Bronwen Progress

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 li ...

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Departing the Day Job, and Other Preparations

September 23, 2016
by Bronwen #rexpat studiesNew JerseyProgress

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 wa ...

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Dream Diary: Finish the thing!

September 9, 2016
by Bronwen Progress

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 ve ...

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Unexpecteds: When $#!& happens

August 29, 2016
by Bronwen ProgressThe Wider World

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 doc ...

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Saying Goodbye to My Writing Group

August 26, 2016
by Bronwen #rexpat studiesOn WritingProgress

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 talk ...

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Unexpecteds: Travel Checklists 

August 26, 2016
by Bronwen ProgressThe Wider World

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 failin ...

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To-Do List Paralysis

August 15, 2016
by Bronwen Progress

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 b ...

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Three reasons you should take a writing retreat

August 5, 2016
by Bronwen On WritingProgress

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 g ...

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So I’m going to be a #rexpat

August 3, 2016
by Bronwen #rexpat studiesProgress

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 ...

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#PitchWars 2016 Mentee Bio: Return of the Bio

July 14, 2016
by Bronwen GiselleOn WritingProgress

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 com ...

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#WIPjoy Collection, 2016 PETIT MAL

July 1, 2016
by Bronwen GiselleOn WritingProgress

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 feature ...

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#RWchat prompt: How did you become a writer?

June 18, 2016
by Bronwen New JerseyOn WritingProgress

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 ...

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New posts in your inbox, the magic is real

June 10, 2016
by Bronwen Progress

Hopefully you're reading this post in your inbox. If you are, that means I got my auto-emailer settings to work! Hooray! You're subscribed to get an email every time I update. (If you change your mind you can always unsubscribe at the bottom of this ...

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The value of chatting

April 17, 2016
by Bronwen On WritingProgressThe Wider World

A few weeks ago Ms. Lovett (@lovettromance) urged me and some of the others in our writing group to hop into a Twitter chat (#rwchat, more on that later). She's become very involved, not only in participating but in helping to organize and run these ...

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