Monday, March 2, 2015

New Blog--and a Writing Experiment

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I've launched a brand new blog! Experimental Positivity is a blog project where I will challenge myself to replace something negative with a positive every single day for a full year. Among a number of reasons why I decided to start this experiment is to get myself into a very small, yet manageable daily writing habit and put myself into a better mindset to get creativity flowing.

I'll still be over here posting as well, most likely with Too Yummy Tuesday, and will hopefully resume work on some fiction projects before long. But battling a number of personal challenges over the past year took the wind out of my writing sails, and I feel I need to focus on this positivity endeavor to put things back in perspective.

I hope you'll support my return to writing by checking out the new blog and sharing it on your social media sites!

Sunday, March 1, 2015

I've Followed You Since The Days of Magic -Snippet Sunday

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~~Warning: mature themes~~

On Sundays, I share tidbits of my works in progress as part of Weekend Warrior’s 8-Sentence Sunday


This snippet is another from Brigid's Awakening, a short erotic fantasy from a series I'm working on called the Sons of Herne series.

Last time, Brigid had been waiting out a storm in a strange barn when a man crashed in, acting as though he'd been expecting her...


“I’m not who you think I am,” she said, clutching the quilts tighter against her.
“On the contrary, I know you most fully--Brighid.”
Her mouth fell open. His pronunciation was off, yet the way he said it with a long e at the end rolled most appealingly off his lips.
“It’s pronounced Bridge-id where I come from,” she said. “But how do you know my name--were you following me?”
“I have followed you since the days of the Tuatha de Danann, when hillsides marked Imbolc eve with bonfire light and magic flowed as freely as the fiery hair spilling down your back.”
His speech held an odd dialect, as strange as his appearance--wild layers of hair with narrow braids throughout, circlets of reeds crowning his head, wrists, and ankles, and bare-chested with cross-shaped streaks over his pectorals and on his forehead.


So, what do you think?

FYI, I was hoping to keep rolling with snippets on Sunday, but the truth is I've been struggling with writing for some time now. I'm starting up a new blog called Experimental Positivity, a venture I hope will help me come around and beat the writer's block I've been facing. Wish me luck!

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I'm J. Rose Allister, wife, working mom, and the author of over twenty-five books. Somewhere in between one and the next, I love hanging out here on my blog and over on Twitter. Give me a comment or follow-I love chatting with people!



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