Writing
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April 19, 2024 Traci Kenworth/Dowe Newsletter April 19, 2024 By Traci Kenworth/Dowe Hello and welcome to my first newsletter! I had planned to get this out earlier but things kept getting in the way. Mainly, a new home, health problems, and a car accident. The good news is that I LOVE the new home, my…
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History and Its Consequences March 26, 2024 Loleta Abi We’ve become a nation that is trying to forget its history. I get it. No one wants to remember the bad things that were done. The grief. The horror. However, the lessons are what we’re forgetting to teach our children. How can they learn when they…
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History, Will We Ever Learn Our Lessons? Traci Kenworth Will we ever learn our lessons when it comes to history? Sometimes, it doesn’t seem so. Instead of each of us growing more at peace with one another, more united, and willing to face the future together, each day we fall more and more apart. I…
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A Tale of Animals as Old as Time Traci Kenworth The moment you pick them up as kittens, they capture your heart. You’d do anything for them. You spend your life trying to do the best for them. Their personalities grow in leaps and bounds as the years pass. They become more than companions. They…
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Examining George Washington’s False Teeth and Other Oddities to Remember Traci Kenworth You come across them in your research: examining George Washington’s false teeth and other oddities to remember. It’s funny the things that history books are lined with that you don’t expect. Like those bells the Victorians used to put in their graves just…
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How Do Your Fictional Characters Get Around? Traci Kenworth On the offhand, how do your fictional characters get around might not seem like a thought-provoking exercise. An automobile, you say. What kind? What year? Does it take gas? Is it electric? Powered by a flex-capacitor? Not so simple, hm? You need to consider a lot…
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Why the Home Became the Center of Our Lives Traci Kenworth The home has become the center of our lives because simply: we built our lives around it. Everything we do, we do to take care of, better our enjoyment of, or keep our families safe together in them. We work to expand them, to…
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Digging Up Skeletons in Your World Traci Kenworth Digging up skeletons in your world can help you define the population of it. Do you have dragons? What makes them different/the same to dragons of other books? Differences are good. They are what make a species stand out. You want to give them more than just…
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Prioritizing History in Your Fictional World Traci Kenworth I’m going to again site the fictional world of Sarah J. Maas’s series, “The Throne of Glass,” for my discussion. As before, I hope I don’t give away too many spoilers for those who haven’t read this excellent series yet. I’m just amazed and thrilled at the…