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One Year Later

Posted on February 10, 2014March 29, 2017 by Therese Arkenberg

I started this blog on February 9, 2013. Reading back over my first few posts, it’s tempting to think about how far I’ve come since then. Clever, hardworking college graduate seeks job…finds one?  When I started Story Addict, I had just moved to Washington, D.C. for one last semester before graduation. Like most new graduates,…

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News for the New Year

Posted on January 6, 2014March 29, 2017 by Therese Arkenberg

It seems absurd to get jet lag from the 1-hour flight from Milwaukee back to DC, even if the flight did include a harrowing forty five minutes waiting on the runway for nonspecific technical anomalies to be repaired. But I’ve definitely been feeling laggy these first few days of 2014. But never mind. The sun…

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Review: Heaven’s Needle by Liane Merciel

Posted on October 31, 2013March 29, 2017 by Therese Arkenberg

You know how I said The White-Luck Warrior became horror a few pages in? The White-Luck Warrior would take one look at one page of Heaven’s Needle and run away crying. Which is why, despite it being marketed as high fantasy, Heaven’s Needle is my review of choice for Hallow’s Eve this year. (That’s a…

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WIP Name And Shame

Posted on October 1, 2013March 31, 2017 by Therese Arkenberg

A writer’s blog is nothing if not a way to hold myself accountable. Here’s the progress I’ve made on my main writing projects, as of October 1st, 2013. Starter Guide for Professional Writers–I’m just past halfway through the second draft, which is already 20,000 words longer than the first. In hindsight the first draft was…

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Progress Update and How To Write A Lot

Posted on March 9, 2013March 29, 2017 by Therese Arkenberg

One of the sweetest perks of my internship is waivers for classes at the Writers Center of Bethesda. Today I attended the evocatively titled “How to Write A Lot”. The gist of the advice was simple–set deadlines, outline first, do not revise or reread on your first draft, write every day, keep your fingers moving…

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Added: Publications List

Posted on February 10, 2013March 29, 2017 by Therese Arkenberg

If you look to the right of this post, you can now see a link to my Publications List, probably the single most useful page on this blog. It offers links to my stories, roughly organized by length and genre and also by series. There are currently 3 of the latter in progress: A Dark…

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