Rabia Gale

Talk about being on opposite sides of the spectrum!: Does rewriting make your story better or worse? Me, I fall somewhere in the middle. My first drafts are me trying to tell the story to myself. They’re the place where I can spend pages describing a forest scene, leap without any thought for logic or [...]

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I shook the random number generator and the winner of a copy of Mistborn is…. Prue! Congratulations, Prue, and if you can email me your address via the contact form, I can have the book out to you soon. Thanks, everyone, for playing! It’s been a lot of fun to give away the books I [...]

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The book for this week’s giveaway is Brandon Sanderson’s Mistborn, the first book of one of the best epic fantasy trilogies I’ve ever read. I love the world, the premise, the magic system, the characters, the action scenes…. but you don’t have to take just my word for how good it is. Leave a comment [...]

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So, I shook the random number generator and the winner of Sunshine is… dkoren! Congratulations. I will mail out your copy on Monday. Stay tuned for my next giveaway, also being announced on Monday.

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Beauty was the first Robin McKinley book I ever read. It became an instant favorite; I must’ve read it cover to cover a dozen times (or more–back then books were harder to come by), pressed it upon my friends and jealously watched for its return.  Since then, I’ve  read a number of McKinley’s books and [...]

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I’m baaaack from our weekend trip to Boston. We walked, went up and down escalators and stairs, and rode the train and took the T. Oh, and also did some sightseeing. The kids did really well, even though we kept them out and about for twelve hours on Saturday (whew!). The kids’ artwork today consisted [...]

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I meant to catch up on my blogging today, but I had two wisdom teeth removed this morning and the happy drugs they gave me then are wearing off. (Hmm, I’m not sure which is worse: blogging on happy drugs or blogging in pain?). All I’ve had to eat today is a milkshake and a [...]

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I’ve been feeling introverted lately, just wanting to hunker down and do my own thing. I haven’t been doing my usual cheery rounds of chat and forums and blogs and–oh my!–what is this thing called tel-e-phone? Nothing major has caused this withdrawal. I guess my brain just needed the time away. It’s been low-key here [...]

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I don’t know if any of you have noticed, but I finally changed my header picture. It’s a lot brighter around here and the pink and red fit with Valentine’s Day a whole lot better. Yes, it doesn’t take much to make me happy.

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The Broaden Your Horizons Edition Three Things Writers Can Learn from Photographers: I love how different creative pursuits shape and inform each other. Creative Experiments: February: daisy yellow posts monthly experiments to jumpstart those of us with creativity block. The experiments that specially intrigue me: art inspired by circles; drawing (as opposed to writing) letters [...]

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