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Author: Susan T. Braithwaite

Royal Navy veteran from Scotland. My journey into writing started with a screenwriting certificate program at UCLA Ext. Since then, I've worked as a freelance content writer, erotica author, proofreader, professional beta reader, and content editor. I'm now working hard on my dream writing career: romantic suspense author. When I'm not writing, I can be found drinking too much coffee, obsessing over yarn, and planning world domination with my husband, jezbraithwaite.blog, and our squirrel army.

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Can’t wait for these bad boys to be ready!

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I started work on my Stage 2 outline for Deniable Unit 1 yesterday. I hadn’t read the Stage 1 iteration for ages, thinking it was going to 100% suck… it turns out only 15% made me cringe! Lesson learned: let your writing breathe for a bit—you might surprise yourself. #amwriting

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What a wonderful quote to start the new week. Thanks, Meistertask! #MotivationMonday

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Even though it’s a dreich day here in Glasgow, there’s still beauty all around. Here are some flowers I spotted on my walk this morning.

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Genre Scribes: Friday Fiction Writing Challenge #6 — Cardigan

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Welcome to Week 6 of the Friday Fiction Writing Challenge! Here’s a complete list of all the posts so far. Feel free to join in.

This week’s random word is: Cardigan.

Huh, as words go, cardigan is a wee bit of a doozy. The first word that sprang to mind was boring—think stroppy teenager. But, there’s something to be said about lackluster words, they really make your imagination work hard to get something juicy.

I set the timer for my five-minute sprint and crossed my fingers that I’d stumble upon something, anything, that I could work with.

Here’s my first sprint (meandering and unedited):

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After a LOT of reading, tinkering, and question asking, my site is doing all the things I wanted it to. Syndication, twitter likes show up on posts, my subscribers don’t get EVERY update, and now I can auto-link to micro.blog folks. Huge thanks to @smokey & @cheri for your help.🙏

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Currently reading: Sizzling Story Outlines by H. R. D’Costa

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@JezB and I have been watching S4 of Rabbids on Netflix. An epi called “Ghost Rabbid” reminded us of the awesome opera sequence in Fifth Element. So much so we were going to buy/rent a digital copy this weekend. But…no one has one! 🙁

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Genre Scribes: Friday Fiction Writing Challenge #5 — Call

Week 5: Call

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Welcome to Week 5 of the Friday Fiction Writing Challenge! Here’s a complete list of all the posts so far if you’d like to join in.

This week’s random word is: Call.

I didn’t have much time to dilly-dally on the challenge today. The site was down for a couple of days while I moved from wordpress.com to wordpress.org. So, I pretty much just got my head down and let my imagination do its job.

Here’s my first sprint (unedited):

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