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Big Things Coming

Along with the first issue of Plainville Review, my new literary magazine, I have decided to embark on a few other endeavors.

I am not at will to discuss yet but wanted to give a little update as to how things are going.

I will give another update in about a week once I have the logistics set up.

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Life Updates (Quarantine Edition)

Life Updates (Quarantine Edition)

Hello all,

It has been a long while since I wrote on this blog, and I’m hoping to start back up at the pace I used to write.

See, a lot of things have been happening lately (some good, some bad) and the brain has been in a bit of fog.

Quarantine doesn’t help the fog part but I’m forcing myself to break through.

Things I have been doing:

1 – Writing my novel (it is almost done!)

2 – Sewing…

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Hello World,

It has been a good, long while since I last wrote on this blog.

I am sure you all have been waiting eagerly for the last year, wondering where the mystery internet woman went. I joke, of course. Thanks for the patience, though, not that I really gave any other option.

Things have been happening for me. It is crazy how things that come together are strung together in such fast motion that one…

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After a loooong vacation...

After a loooong vacation…

Hello all,

I am back on the internet. It has been a very long and eventful year for me.

Big things:

I moved in with my long-term boyfriend.

I got my first full-time job.

I got my driver’s license (after three long years!).

I decided to pursue graduate school.

  Again, like I said, this year has been a very long, very eventful year. I am twenty-four years old and finally in a place in my life…

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Happy New Year (still January, still okay)

Three months. That’s how long it’s been since I’ve written a word on this site. As I’ve said before, I have Creative Project Attention Deficit (a self-dubbed term that I’ve shortened into CPAD). I start project after project and never finish anything. Or, rather, that used to be the case until I settled onto something. I decided that I would finish a project. I would actually sit down at my…

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Note to Writers

As a writer, I get stuck and I stumble over ideas quite frequently. Sometimes I’ll scan the web looking through ideas for how to write. Working on my third revision of my recent WIP, I’ve been having some issues with how I want to write it. And so I took to the internet.  One thing I noticed amid the vast amount of writing advice: a lot of it is posed as rules for how a book should be written.…

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Some good stuff right here.

7 Ways End Your Novel

Figuring out the right way to end your novel can be difficult and it can make or break your story. If you’re stuck, try to understand that your ending should match the tone of your story. Here are a few common ways to end a novel to keep in mind:

Happy

There’s nothing wrong with a happy ending. If you want your novel to end on a joyful note with everyone getting what they want, that’s perfectly fine. Just make sure it’s in line with how your characters have behaved throughout your novel.

Sad

Writing a sad ending depends on how you built up your novel. A sudden, sad ending shouldn’t come out of nowhere. It should tie in with the tone of your story. If you want to write a sad ending, make sure it makes sense in the world you’ve created.

Open

Sometimes due to the nature of your story, your ending will remain open. Maybe your audience will have to come to conclusions themselves or maybe you’re leading into your next novel. If you’re writing a sequel, writers will often end with it open or a cliffhanger.

Complete

Happy or sad, some writers tend to complete their novel. These means they’ve tied up all loose ends, plots, and subplots, and created a solid ending. Usually this leaves no room for a follow-up and the novel can stand complete on its own. 

Twist

The twist ending can be hard to pull off, but if done correctly it can really blow your readers’ minds. This is when you lead up to one conclusion and then reveal that an assumed truth was false the whole time. Study up on twist endings if that’s something you want to do in your story.

Tie-back

This is when the ending ties back around to the clues in the beginning. Stories with a tie back ending sometimes have a full loop and give the story a feeling of completeness. They make readers feel as if everything is connected in some way.

Epilogue

An epilogue often gives readers details beyond the perceived ending. Writers will sometimes use epilogues if there’s a lot to sum up. Just make sure the epilogue fits your novel and it’s not something you can explain in the main sections of your story.

-Kris Noel

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Life in the Real World

Life in the Real World

Welcome back to school, kids. You lucky ducks, you. I am a college graduate. I am extremely fresh to this whole college graduate thing. Like, I still haven’t gotten my diploma in the mail. Being a college graduate, I am now in that awkward stage of life where I have a degree and have to look for someone who will take me. (Anyone reading this who just happens to have a high-up position in…

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Episode 4

It has long since been established that I am working on a web series, which is what this little Episode series is all about. It is still in the pre-production stages. So far out of twelve episodes, I have written five with skeletal drafts of three. There are things to consider when writing a web series and that is why it is so hard. First, you don’t have money. Not yet, anyway. And being someone…

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I help with writing, guys. In case anyone needed anything writing related.

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Unpretty by TLC should be more popular than it is. 

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Started watching the anime “Higurashi no Naku Koro ni”, or “When They Cry”, and I gotta say... I don’t know what to say. This shit is pretty intense. 

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Person with creative ADD says “I’m going to make a webcomic.” 

That’s me. I said that.

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Do you ever get cravings for content? Like, I could really go for some contemporary poetry right about now. 

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started a vlog, posted three videos, and now I’m lost

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Book porn. It’s a thing. Those beautiful full bookshelves. I love looking at pictures of them on here.

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Has there been a study on the dysfunctional families that Seth McFarland loves to write about? (eg. Family Guy, American Dad)