Ruthanne Reid's Blog, page 9
March 5, 2019
What’s YOUR worth as a writer?
This post was originally a lot longer.
It was also wrong.
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February 28, 2019
Learning From Those Who Came Before
We write our stories, and we do the best we can. For many of us, that means we write from perspective born of backgrounds we didn't control, educations we weren't aware were cheap, and information we didn't know was dated.
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February 23, 2019
A Little Something Dark
It takes a while, sometimes, for a new Night Child to find control, but Terrance wasn’t like that.
At first he lost himself in blood and screams and trembling flesh, but who wouldn’t?
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January 30, 2019
Why Neil Gaiman?
I’m going to tell you precisely why I love Neil Gaiman’s work, and I’ll do it by breaking down one of my favorite short stories.
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January 29, 2019
Weird
Court-appointed therapy doesn't go quite the way Rapunzel thought it would.
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Neil Gaiman Masterclass!
I have been given an AMAZING gift and I'm out of my mind with joy.
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January 21, 2019
Stop Thinking About Marketing
The reason we feel the need to hold baby creations up to some 30-year pro's for comparison is because our culture teaches us to judge all art according to salability - but salability is not the point of art.
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January 20, 2019
Just Keep Writing (even when it hurts)
So I wrote today for the first time since my dad died. It was not, shall we say, a *good* experience.
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December 21, 2018
Unnamed Story With Gray: Snippet
That power. Lips could lie but power could not.
I was in a van with Robin Goodfellow
and some Shadow’s Breath rando, and I had no idea where we were headed.
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December 7, 2018
Notte Snippet: The Word of a Friend
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We carried stories from town to town, transmitting parables like pathogens, connecting people via the thin threads of empathy and imagination who would otherwise never meet.
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