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Maire E Brown 📚

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Full time writer, part time horror author. Author of ‘Pieces’, available in Suburban Witchcraft Magazine and the Creepy podcast! https://mairebrownauthor.wixsite.com/website

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This is Allyween @allymalinenko.bsky.social · 23h

“I will honour HALLOWEEN in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future. The Spirits of all Three shall strive within me. I will not shut out the lessons that they teach.” -Charles Dickens probably

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Maire E Brown 📚 @booksandbylines.bsky.social · 2d

This is your sign to start the book club.

#readersky #reading #bookclub

Maire E Brown 📚 @booksandbylines.bsky.social · 3d

Thank you!

Maire E Brown 📚 @booksandbylines.bsky.social · 4d

Another day, another flash fiction piece submitted to some magazines.

#onsub #writer #author #flashfiction

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Maire E Brown 📚 @booksandbylines.bsky.social · 4d

Just cleaned my apartment instead of sitting down and writing. I feel like that’s a square on the author bingo card.

#writing #writer #author #horrorauthor

Maire E Brown 📚 @booksandbylines.bsky.social · 7d

It ys the seasoun of the vvitch.

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Maire E Brown 📚 @booksandbylines.bsky.social · 7d

“No, my initiative order doesn’t match my character’s vibes!” Is the most D&D sentence I’ve ever heard uttered 😂

#d&d #dungeonsanddragons

Maire E Brown 📚 @booksandbylines.bsky.social · 11d

Ahh!!! One of my favorites. So underrated.

Maire E Brown 📚 @booksandbylines.bsky.social · 11d

You’d think with all the real horror going on these days it would be easier than ever to write horror fiction.

Sadly, I can’t top the real world. Political, social, and economic problems aside, can we talk about the fact that there are CHRISTMAS decorations out before Halloween?

Maire E Brown 📚 @booksandbylines.bsky.social · 11d

Such a core childhood memory.

My husband and I do the Chamberlain’s “hhhhhmmm?” daily.

Maire E Brown 📚 @booksandbylines.bsky.social · 11d

Hit the 10k mark on my WIP today and wrote a chapter that felt pretty good (for a rough draft).

#writer #author #horrorauthor

Maire E Brown 📚 @booksandbylines.bsky.social · 12d

The hardest part of being a writer is that you have to be self-motivated.

So, write. Even when you don’t feel like it.

#writer #author #horrorauthor

Maire E Brown 📚 @booksandbylines.bsky.social · 14d

And you don’t really know which you’ll get until you sit down and start writing.

Maire E Brown 📚 @booksandbylines.bsky.social · 14d

I don’t read a ton of nonfiction, but John Green’s Everything is Tuberculosis was really interesting and definitely worth the read!

#bookrec #readersky #johngreen

Book Cover: Yellow background with orange circle containing TB cells.

Maire E Brown 📚 @booksandbylines.bsky.social · 15d

The hardest part of starting my next writing project is never creating the concept or having the motivation.

It’s seeing the messy 1st draft and not trying to make it perfect before starting draft 2. Stagnancy in the process kills more stories than bad writing.

#writersky #author #horrorauthor

Maire E Brown 📚 @booksandbylines.bsky.social · 16d

I hope you can now take a breath and enjoy it!

a man in a number 21 jersey is surrounded by other soccer players

ALT: a man in a number 21 jersey is surrounded by other soccer players

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Maire E Brown 📚 @booksandbylines.bsky.social · 16d

T. Kingfisher has done it again. What Stalks the Deep was a great addition to the Sworn Soldier series!

#readersky #bookrecs

Book cover for What Stalks the Deep featuring sticks and a partially rotted bear.

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Clay Sheldon @claysheldon.bsky.social · 17d

An important element in improving your writing is in self-reflection and the identification of your weaknesses. It can be tempting to ignore the flaws in your writing, hoping your strengths will outshine them. But discovering and improving your weaknesses will make your next tale more well-rounded.

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Maire E Brown 📚 @booksandbylines.bsky.social · 17d

Added another chapter to my book before breakfast. I’m up to 3,000 words in the last week!

#writersky #author #horrorauthor #wip

Maire E Brown 📚 @booksandbylines.bsky.social · 17d

a woman sitting at a desk with the words " don t tell me what to do "

ALT: a woman sitting at a desk with the words " don t tell me what to do "

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Maire E Brown 📚 @booksandbylines.bsky.social · 18d

Reading the new T. Kingfisher book (What Stalks the Deep) on the beach and thriving.

#reader #readersky

Maire E Brown 📚 @booksandbylines.bsky.social · 18d

I always finish the book, then look at the reviews. I much prefer going in blind.

Maire E Brown 📚 @booksandbylines.bsky.social · 18d

I would be like, “one draft and we’re done!” But even the short stories take their time.

Maire E Brown 📚 @booksandbylines.bsky.social · 18d

Just did this with one of my MCs and it made a world of difference. She’s so much more human now!

Maire E Brown 📚 @booksandbylines.bsky.social · 19d

Lights Out is also such a creepy short!