Author Archives: Rachel

About Rachel

I'm a writer in progress, and in my day job I copyedit/solve puzzles.

London Trip Part 1: Sightseeing

For my first wedding anniversary, Rob took me to Maine, and he pulled together the most fantastic present for me–the Box of Awesome. For our second anniversary, we celebrated Mom’s birthday. For our third anniversary, we went to Iceland and … Continue reading

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A bit about the past month, and my birthday

This morning, my phone buzzed at 7:13 a.m.–6 minutes before the alarm on my FitBit was supposed to buzz, and 7 minutes before the alarm clock would go off.  It woke me up, and I’d normally have ignored it, but … Continue reading

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Stickers and Words

Previously, I wrote a post about finding a process that worked for getting me writing every day. And it did work, for a while. Until I finished a draft. And until life happened, but that’s inevitable.  I still use my … Continue reading

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About that submission

While it might look like I’m sitting at my desk, staring out the window at the snow, I’m actually working.  I’m going that writing in my head thing that I do all the time.  I don’t know if it’s something … Continue reading

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Hitting the submit button

“Writing is hard.” I can’t count the number of times I’ve read this phrase or heard somebody or other say it. And it’s true; writing is hard. But even harder for me? Hitting the submit button. I wrote a flash … Continue reading

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