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Friday, June 13, 2014 7:52:26 PM
Finelli Jen wrote a blog post titled You Live in a Sci Fi: Guest Post over on Mel Massey's Blog:
Finelli said, "Hey! Did you know you live in a scifi? I wrote a post over on Mel Massey's blog all about three crazy technologies you probably didn't know TOTALLY exist right now. From telepathy to home-grown organs, can you pick out the one that's not real? It'll..." more
Wednesday, June 4, 2014 5:47:09 PM
Finelli Jen wrote a blog post titled Flash Fiction: Mother's Day:
Finelli said, "Snow drifted across the windshield as my car careened across the road. I gripped the wheel, spinning it in a panic, my fingers frozen to it, my breath bated—the momentum threw me almost into the passenger's seat, and a feeling of weightlessness..." more
Tuesday, June 3, 2014 5:07:08 PM
Finelli Jen wrote a blog post titled What's your favorite way to fly, and why?:
Finelli said, "Champion in Flight Release and Flight Fest!!!You wanna fly by dragon? Enchanted bicycle? It's a lovely question, posted by Tyrean Martinson for her book release--you can join her celebration of flight by clicking on that link up there and then..." more
Sunday, June 1, 2014 7:13:03 PM
Finelli Jen wrote a blog post titled SciFi Flash Fiction: Free Thought:
Finelli said, "Luke held up his glasses, grinning. Wires dribbled off the sides like spaghetti as he whispered,“We're privatizing free thought.”His sister sat back and crossed her arms, smirking. “Isn't free thought already privatized? It's kind of,..." more
Friday, May 30, 2014 6:27:13 PM
Finelli Jen wrote a blog post titled When is it right to kill off a character?:
Finelli said, "I think about this a lot. So now I'm going to talk too much. So, Unqualified Death Philosophy 101. Obi-Wan's death is a good example of "death via natural character arc."Just after WWII a lot of "realist" writers began to really promote..." more
Thursday, May 15, 2014 12:14:47 PM
Finelli Jen wrote a blog post titled Nine Short-Short-Short Stories To Stir Your Imagination:
Finelli said, "Hello again, dear friend!Can you write a story in just 140 characters? I don't mean using 140 characters at a time--I mean like a complete vignette, image, or beginning-middle-ending story in a tweet! I'm continually practicing concise..." more
Sunday, March 30, 2014 9:47:33 AM
Finelli Jen wrote a blog post titled Fear and Trembling Magazine Acceptance:
Finelli said, "Real quick--I'm supposed to be studying micro--Fear and Trembling just accepted my vampire story about damnation and repression! It was a hard sell because no one wants vampires or damnation or repression, so I'm really glad! Here's the cover..." more
Tuesday, March 25, 2014 12:07:47 PM
Finelli Jen wrote a blog post titled Short and Sweet: Why YA is a Realistic Category and Teens who will Save the World:
Finelli said, "I've heard a few people say that inherently, YA is kind of an unrealistic book category--I mean, if a teenager had to save the world, we'd all be SCREWED. And covered in those stupid Ke$ha posters.Hold up, are you kidding me? Teenagers have saved..." more
Thursday, February 27, 2014 9:12:25 PM
Finelli Jen wrote a blog post titled Escaping the Dragon, Entry 1 (Low Fantasy Serial):
Finelli said, "September 26, 2012First post! Or Dear Diary...My dragon caught up to me today. I'd slipped into a world where unicorns exist, a field of heather I know not where, and bathed in cool shade and lilting, dancing sunlight I chased after them. They only..." more
Thursday, February 27, 2014 9:12:25 PM
Finelli Jen wrote a blog post titled Escaping the Dragon, entry 2 (fantasy blog serial):
Finelli said, "September 29, 2012Locale: Redacted SciFi World NameFeeling so much better today. Marched right into the Monk Academy, grabbed a Leche Azul from the first robot I saw in the hallway, and waltzed into the children's holographic training room just like..." more
Thursday, February 27, 2014 9:12:25 PM
Finelli Jen wrote a blog post titled Update! What's going on? Upcoming goodies!:
Finelli said, "Not usually a big fan of blog updates, because they tend to be useless to the reader, but I wanted to kinda give you guys an idea of goodies I'll have for you in the future! (Yay!) As a lot of you know from my twitter, I'm smack-dab in the middle of..." more
Thursday, February 27, 2014 9:12:25 PM
Finelli Jen wrote a blog post titled Medfacts #1: Getting stabbed in the chest, part 1 (right side pneumothorax):
Finelli said, "It happens to the best of us. Whether you're an action-adventure lady-in-black slipping through dark alleys with criminals hard on your tail, or a fantasy princess in the front lines giving her life for her kingdom, sometimes we get stabbed in the..." more
Thursday, February 27, 2014 9:12:25 PM
Finelli Jen wrote a blog post titled Medfacts #2: Getting stabbed in the chest part 2: Surviving right side pneumothorax:
Finelli said, "Last post we left our heroine with pneumothorax after she got stabbed in the right side of her chest. If you're a writer, you now want to write either a realistic death scene, or a realistic rescue. Here are some basics to remember as you do the..." more
Thursday, February 27, 2014 9:12:25 PM
Finelli Jen wrote a blog post titled The plague on our words: How we're sapping the meaning from our sentences:
Finelli said, "Something's laying heavy on my heart tonight. It's 2:35 AM, and instead of sleeping I'm haunted. Please, I beg you dearly, think about this haunting with me. We stand in the midst of a plague, a passive-aggressive invasion that penetrates beyond the..." more
Thursday, February 27, 2014 9:12:25 PM
Finelli Jen wrote a blog post titled Meaning Behind The Story: I Am Disease:
Finelli said, "P { margin-bottom: 0.21cm; }Some of you have read my short story, I am Disease, published in the PMM anthology Bleed. If you haven't, of course, you can go support cancer research by checking it out here, but in the meantime I really just wanted to..." more
Thursday, February 27, 2014 9:12:25 PM
Finelli Jen wrote a blog post titled Free stuff giveaway! Forget-Me-Not's coming out, and it's about...:
Finelli said, "Since her mother vanished nine years ago, Anamae and her father have shared a quiet life. But when Anamae discovers a brooch identical to her mother's favorite pendant, she unknowingly invites a slew of trouble into their world. When the brooch and..." more
Thursday, February 27, 2014 9:12:25 PM
Finelli Jen wrote a blog post titled Medfacts #3: Stabbed in the chest part 3: Lung laceration and hemothorax:
Finelli said, "As always, we're dissecting health realism for writers—what reallyhappens when your heroine gets stabbed in the lower right side of the chest? We've dissected puncture wounds, and now we're talking full-scale broadsword or spaceship-accident lung..." more
Thursday, February 27, 2014 9:12:25 PM
Finelli Jen wrote a blog post titled Escaping the Dragon, #3:
Finelli said, "To read from the beginning of the diary I found in the belly of a dragon, read here.December, 2011Behind a dumpster in the rain Dear...whoever. P { margin-bottom: 0.21cm; } I haven't written this diary for a while. And it's not because..." more
Thursday, February 27, 2014 9:12:25 PM
Finelli Jen wrote a blog post titled Escaping the Dragon, #4 (Low Fantasy Serial):
Finelli said, "P { margin-bottom: 0.21cm; } Entry 4Date: Don't CareLocale: <redacted> Comic Book Universe So, today didn't meet my expectations, and that's really saying something. Something good!So, if you flip back you'll see last night I slept..." more
Thursday, February 27, 2014 9:12:25 PM
Finelli Jen wrote a blog post titled Sneak Previews: Interview with Star Thief Author Jamie Grey:
Finelli said, "Barnes and Noble AmazonSmashwordsToday, we've got Jamie Grey, the author of the new NA Science Fiction novel, Star Thief. And when I say new, I mean, hot-and-piping-so-new-you-couldn't-get-this-three-days-ago-new. You can check out the blurb and..." more
Thursday, February 27, 2014 9:12:25 PM
Finelli Jen wrote a blog post titled Check out this Character Interview! With Necronite Jesse Sullivan, from Dying for a Living (Not a zombie!):
Finelli said, "Add to your GoodreadsThe interdimensional travel leaves me queasier this time--my head's throbbing, and I'm clutching a nearby trashcan to stand. Or vomit.Yup.Either way, I'm thrilled. In my experience, the worse the pre-hangover, the wilder the..." more
Thursday, February 27, 2014 9:12:25 PM
Finelli Jen wrote a blog post titled Character Interview: White One, from Nezumi's Children by T.L. Bodine (What's it like to be a rat?):
Finelli said, "Purchase the novel hereSometimes I bend my body to obey the Rules. Today's protagonist is white, fluffy, naked-tail'd, and about the size of my human fist, so to interview her--Well, I'm disguised as a rat.It's tough for me to coordinate four limbs..." more
Thursday, February 27, 2014 9:12:25 PM
Finelli Jen wrote a blog post titled Why you DON'T want to make your living writing:
Finelli said, "P { margin-bottom: 0.21cm; direction: ltr; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); }P.western { font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; }P.cjk { font-family: "Arial Unicode MS",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; }P.ctl { font-family: "Arial Unicode..." more
Thursday, February 27, 2014 9:12:25 PM
Finelli Jen wrote a blog post titled What Blog Blitzing Is For--and What It Is NOT For:
Finelli said, "Hey errybody! You may or may not already know, but writer DL Hammons runs a "blog blitz," where once a week an unsuspecting writer/blogger gets visited by pretty much a hundred-and-something people.It sounds like a blogger's dream come true, right?..." more
Wednesday, June 18, 2014 12:45:43 AM
Finelli Jen wrote a blog post titled How Writing for Charity Can Earn You Money: Guest Post Over at Operation Awesome:
Finelli said, "That's right! I share with you all the secrets about getting rich AND being a fabulously good person. Isn't that lovely?Heehee well maybe not all the secrets. Anyway, my dear battle buddies, do click on over to Operation Awesome to find out how..." more