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Rachel Beth Ahrens

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Crochet cosplayer, designer, #ownvoices unpublished speculative fiction writer, content creator on Patreon and Ko-Fi. Continued from Twitter & Mastodon. Writing WIPs: Eureka the Dragonheart, Debutante of Cassiopeia.

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Rachel Beth Ahrens @rachelbeth99.bsky.social · 23d

Hey #WritingCommunity and #writersky along with the #crochetsky of this awesome butterfly app-
Good news, I won my Social Security case, but I'm also loosening up on my Patreon posts. More in this newsletter below. Please feel free to keep supporting me:
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Rachel Beth Ahrens @rachelbeth99.bsky.social · 22h

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In fact, before he died, Robert Asprin praised my dad's filk group the Boogie Knights (from Maryland) as one of the best fantasy parody music groups here in the US. My dad was overjoyed to hear that about being a former filk writer.
It was around college in 2007.

Rachel Beth Ahrens @rachelbeth99.bsky.social · 22h

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As I've said before, Jane Austen influenced me a ton as a writer. Also, my dad told me to read Robert Asprin when I was in my 20s, especially the Myth books. I'm reading Dragons Wild, love that story.
I miss those authors and my dad most. Learned a lot from them.

Hiria Dunning @hiriadunning.bsky.social · 1d

#pretendpanel I can't wait to catch up with your responses! Life is super busy here - I'm at a fundraising dinner right now - but let me know...

October 11th: Is there a deceased author, writer, or poet that you've really connected with?

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October 11th: Is there a deceased author, writer, or poet that you've really connected with?
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Rachel Beth Ahrens @rachelbeth99.bsky.social · 1d

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-Austen's novels like Northanger and Pride & Prejudice are the core essentials to helping me at the cornerstone of being a good writer. Similarly, reading sci fi fantasy stories like Red Queen, Fourth Wing, and comforting stories by Robert Asprin also teach me loads.

Rachel Beth Ahrens @rachelbeth99.bsky.social · 1d

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-Jane Austen also wrote novels to be something of satire over the Georgian/ Regency era, to be somehow chaotic and funny to laugh at and criticize how women in those times had nothing, along with hope for women in the future to seek what they desire...

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Rachel Beth Ahrens @rachelbeth99.bsky.social · 1d

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-Catherine Morland goes to all these grand parties at the age of 18 in Bath to be entered in society, but she's too hopped up on the Gothic novels, which the author Jane Austen hated, as the chaos. It's love that sets Catherine right, and there has to be calm in chaos..

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Rachel Beth Ahrens @rachelbeth99.bsky.social · 1d

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This is easy. From a dead author, Northanger Abbey is my favorite book of Jane Austen, and it definitely shaped my writing in a romance concept between my MCs and love interests through sci fi and fantasy. Northanger gave me a sense of calm in times of chaos-

Tracey Lee @traceyleewrites.bsky.social · 3d

📚 #WritingLifeMonthly October Day 09 📚

This one's not just a book you love, but one that makes you want to write. It could be fiction or non-fiction. What about it inspires you?

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October #writinglifemonthly Day 09 Tell us about a book that inspired your own writing.
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Rachel Beth Ahrens @rachelbeth99.bsky.social · 1d

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(2/2)
I hope I'm remembered for the things I've written as tales people can look back on to help make a difference in the world and shape the future. I hope that when I die, people will see the errors of the early 21st century, and the hope of tomorrow.

Rachel Beth Ahrens @rachelbeth99.bsky.social · 1d

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This is a tough one, and it's a bit scary to answer this...
Since my mom is the only next of kin I have left now, and I will never be a mom, I sure hope that in my will, my next of kin will be my friends and my readers who will keep my writing alive. (1/2)

Hiria Dunning @hiriadunning.bsky.social · 2d

#pretendpanel, I'm at a retreat over the next few days so I am incorrigibly absent! However, tell me...

October 10th: Writing and reading are kinds of necromancy. How do you hope your writing will hold/reflect your ghost after you're gone?

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October 10th: Writing and reading are kinds of necromancy. How do you hope your writing will hold/reflect your ghost after you're gone?
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Rachel Beth Ahrens @rachelbeth99.bsky.social · 2d

Agreed.
I also love the Snoopy photo...
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Barbara Nicholson @barbaranicholson.bsky.social · 2d

Writers - write with conviction and hold on to that positive attitude as you do.

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It’s Friday. Believe that anything is possible. Have a fantastic day and a wonderful weekend.

Rachel Beth Ahrens @rachelbeth99.bsky.social · 4d

That Fall Out Boy song is one of my favorites! Kudos! :) You have good taste!

Rachel Beth Ahrens @rachelbeth99.bsky.social · 4d

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(cont.) (2/2)
"What a Time to Be Alive"- Fall Out Boy
Eureka the Dragonheart (Eureka): "Land of Confusion"- Genesis, "It's All Coming Back to Me Now"- Celine Dion
And not a single Taylor Swift song in sight because I can't stand her- I'm a rocker chick...

Rachel Beth Ahrens @rachelbeth99.bsky.social · 4d

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I'd have a playlist for my MCs:
Debutante of Cassiopeia (Marina): "Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Tells Your Story" from the Hamilton Mixtape
Black Magic Door (Mabel): "Girl Next Door"- Saving Jane, Theme from the first Aquaman movie
How to Serve Gamers (Elina)- (1/2)

Tracey Lee @traceyleewrites.bsky.social · 4d

📚 #WritingLifeMonthly October Day 08 📚

Is there a song that instantly makes you think of your MC?

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October #writinglifemonthly Day 08 If your main character had a theme song, what would it be?
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Rachel Beth Ahrens @rachelbeth99.bsky.social · 4d

Sadly, I'm too broke to get an editor, a professional one... My boyfriend is a much better editor than me, but he prefers to read short stories, but he's my biggest supporter in writing and in love. But as I'm on SSI/SSDI, I'm trying to be careful where I spend my money...

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Rachel Beth Ahrens @rachelbeth99.bsky.social · 5d

I'm in a couple of writers' circles right now, and I've gotten some feedback on that first draft already... I'm definitely looking to revise that one soon enough.
I think I'm good, thank you, though.

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Rachel Beth Ahrens @rachelbeth99.bsky.social · 5d

Mostly science fiction and fantasy, so there's not a lot of research needed. However, I did need to do a ton of research for my steampunk alternate history/ alternate reality Debutante of Cassiopeia, rooted in the Hamilton musical. That draft has been written, but I need to revise & edit.

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Rachel Beth Ahrens @rachelbeth99.bsky.social · 5d

I know what you mean! That's how I feel.

Rachel Beth Ahrens @rachelbeth99.bsky.social · 5d

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Probably the most fun part of writing for me is drafting and planning at the same time- I'm a plantser, so when I get and idea, I just start writing it down in a notebook or computer, and get inspiration from research at the same time. Editing is the hardest...

Tracey Lee @traceyleewrites.bsky.social · 6d

📚 #WritingLifeMonthly October Day 06 📚

There are always parts of a job we love more than others. What's your fav part of the process?

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October #writinglifemonthly Day 06 What's your favourite part of the writing process - drafting, editing, or researching?
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Rachel Beth Ahrens @rachelbeth99.bsky.social · 5d

Thank God someone is saying something about this. RFK Jr. has always had something wrong with him, he's disgusting and an abomination to the neurodivergent community. He needs to be fired immediately.

Rachel Beth Ahrens @rachelbeth99.bsky.social · 6d

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-because Mabel would keep me company and we'd talk about musicals and love of theatre. I think that because she's a half human/ half siren/ sorceress, we'd definitely have fun doing karaoke together, while also having the three of us take care of some evil antagonists!

Rachel Beth Ahrens @rachelbeth99.bsky.social · 6d

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If it were up to me to live with a character I'm currently writing in my WIPs, I really would love to live with Marina Hamilton (Debutante) or Mabel (Black Magic Door):
Marina because she's badass and she'd protect me from ruffians & pirates-
Mabel, for reading books &-

Tracey Lee @traceyleewrites.bsky.social · 7d

📚 #WritingLifeMonthly October Day 05 📚
Tell me the truth, do you write characters you'd love to have in your life? I know I do. Who would you pull from the page to hang out with and why?

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October #writinglifemonthly Day 05 Which one of your characters woyld you want to be friends with IRL & why?
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Rachel Beth Ahrens @rachelbeth99.bsky.social · 7d

Such a cute fur baby!!! Dawww... Hope he's on the mend. I'd love to snuggle with him...
I miss having a dachshund...

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Rachel Beth Ahrens @rachelbeth99.bsky.social · 8d

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I have the strangest nightmares, and I'm trying to combat them the best I can, but I'm a pessimist.
This is why I say, don't give up until someone hears your story. Have faith and bravery, fear will come back to hurt you, but that's what writing is for.

Rachel Beth Ahrens @rachelbeth99.bsky.social · 8d

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-real job or career since college graduation- I got terminated or laid off after 90 days or less, which is why I'm on Social Security now. I was afraid of losing my parents, I lost one so far, I'm scared of losing my mom too. This is why I write, it's so important.

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Rachel Beth Ahrens @rachelbeth99.bsky.social · 8d

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-and a burly man came in and started getting ready to eat the butterflies and I couldn't stop him...
There are tons of fears in my heart as I write- I'm a writing failure at 37, never been published, still live with my mom after my dad died, never had a-

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Rachel Beth Ahrens @rachelbeth99.bsky.social · 8d

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Absolutely, but this is a hard one to answer.
I tend to write in my diary and writing journals as if it's therapy, and I'm not afraid to tell my therapist about this. I even had a horrible nightmare this morning where I was trying to save Monarch butterflies-

Hiria Dunning @hiriadunning.bsky.social · 8d

Hello #pretendpanel! I've been on the road all day so I have a bunch to catch up on from yesterday, but here's the next question...

October 4th: How have you explored fear in your writing?

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October 4th: How have you explored fear in your writing?
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