Browse through Ariele’s blog from April 2013 until now.
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October 2025
- Oct 28, 2025 In The Forest I Am Me
- Oct 14, 2025 The Complexity of Thought
- Oct 6, 2025 How to Survive the Apocalypse, Part 9: Real Survival Tips We Should Probably All Know Anyway
- Oct 2, 2025 Interlacement: An Essay About Thinking
- Oct 2, 2025 Animals, Writing, and the Daily Waggle
- September 2025
- August 2025
- July 2025
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June 2025
- Jun 23, 2025 On Compassion
- Jun 12, 2025 On Navigating Changes
- Jun 10, 2025 New Book: The Glass Forest and Other Tales
- Jun 2, 2025 How To Survive the Apocalypse, Part 5: Skills to Learn Before the Apocalypse (Because Google Won’t Be There to Help You)
- May 2025
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April 2025
- Apr 29, 2025 New Book: Market Like It's HOT
- Apr 7, 2025 How to Survive the Apocalypse, Part 3: Community
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March 2025
- Mar 3, 2025 How to Survive the Apocalypse, Part 2: Tools
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February 2025
- Feb 28, 2025 The Self-Driving Trolley Car
- Feb 20, 2025 Repurposing Marketing Content for Maximum Impact
- Feb 10, 2025 How to Survive the Apocalypse, Part 1: Scenario Planning
- Feb 6, 2025 Reframing Marketing As Storytelling
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January 2025
- Jan 16, 2025 On Excising Pain Through Writing
- Jan 13, 2025 Ariele's Vlog: Project Planning
- Jan 10, 2025 What is art?
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December 2024
- Dec 31, 2024 Ariele's Vlog: New Year, New Swamp Hag
- Dec 10, 2024 Ariele's Vlog: Deidre Day
- Dec 3, 2024 The End With Wingtips: A Poem
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November 2024
- Nov 5, 2024 Dinosaur: A Poem
- Nov 1, 2024 Digging Up Trouble Finale: Digging Up Trouble
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October 2024
- Oct 25, 2024 Digging Up Trouble Part 5: The Lock and the Lie
- Oct 24, 2024 How To Create Layered Metaphors In Fiction
- Oct 18, 2024 Digging Up Trouble Part 4: Claw to Claw
- Oct 11, 2024 Digging Up Trouble Part 3: Stripes & Shadows
- Oct 4, 2024 Digging Up Trouble Part Two: Burrowed Clues
- Oct 1, 2024 The Fog: A Poem
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September 2024
- Sep 29, 2024 Starship Blunder: A Shareverse Coming Soon!
- Sep 27, 2024 Badger Camp Short Story: Digging Up Trouble Part 1
- Sep 9, 2024 Giant Mice & Lava Ice: Designing Unique Fantasy Settings
- Sep 5, 2024 Magic System Development the Ariele Way
- Sep 3, 2024 Unified, All Of Me: A Poem
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August 2024
- Aug 12, 2024 Writing Tips (Sometimes): When Your Characters Hijack The Plot
- Aug 6, 2024 Time: A Poem
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July 2024
- Jul 15, 2024 Writing Tips (Sometimes): What If I Do It Wrong?
- Jul 2, 2024 A Meandering Life: A Poem
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June 2024
- Jun 25, 2024 Selling Books In A Digital World: Video!
- Jun 17, 2024 Writing Tips (Sometimes): Sussing Out Subtext
- Jun 11, 2024 Ariele's Vlog: Crossover Skillz
- Jun 6, 2024 Rest Free, Roxie
- Jun 4, 2024 Better Than Dead: A Poem
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May 2024
- May 31, 2024 New Books, New House, Same Me
- May 28, 2024 Ariele's Vlog: Universal Fantasies
- May 14, 2024 Ariele's Vlog: Beekeeping!
- May 13, 2024 Writing Tips (Sometimes): The Art of Unwriting
- May 7, 2024 Absurdity: A Poem
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April 2024
- Apr 23, 2024 Ariele's Vlog: Endurance
- Apr 15, 2024 Writing Tips (Sometimes): To Publish or Not To Publish, That Is The Question
- Apr 9, 2024 Ariele's Vlog: Brain Metaphors
- Apr 2, 2024 Losing Streak: A Poem
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March 2024
- Mar 28, 2024 Introducing Badger Camp!
- Mar 26, 2024 Ariele's Vlog: Dividing Lines
- Mar 12, 2024 Ariele's Vlog: Thoughts On Indie Publishing
- Mar 11, 2024 Writing Tips (Sometimes): The Highlights of Pantsing A Novel
- Mar 5, 2024 Ariele's Vlog: Annual Planning
- Mar 5, 2024 Black Hole: A Poem
- Mar 3, 2024 Ariele's Vlog: Ladybugs
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February 2024
- Feb 28, 2024 Ariele's Vlog: Wilt & Wane
- Feb 12, 2024 Writing Tips (Sometimes): Decisions, Decisions, Too Many Decisions
- Feb 6, 2024 Writing Is Hard: A Poem
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January 2024
- Jan 24, 2024 Land of Szornyek Update
- Jan 16, 2024 A Tribute to Goblin the Cat
- Jan 16, 2024 Writing Tips (Sometimes): Royalties Aren't All That
- Jan 9, 2024 The World Grows Small: A Poem
- Jan 8, 2024 Writers On The MOON
- Jan 3, 2024 Writers on the Moon! Happening January 8th
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December 2023
- Dec 12, 2023 Writing Tips (Sometimes): On Being A Feral Author
- Dec 5, 2023 I Started A Video Blog
- November 2023
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October 2023
- Oct 17, 2023 Writing Tips (Sometimes): The Drawbacks of An Oversized Imagination
- Oct 13, 2023 Looking for ARC Readers!
- Oct 11, 2023 New Book: The Silver Skull (Book 10 of Rove City)
- Oct 10, 2023 October Cat News: Buck the Explorer
- Oct 10, 2023 The Lover's Ghost – A Hungarian Fairytale
- September 2023
- August 2023
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July 2023
- Jul 31, 2023 Writing Tips (Sometimes): Let's Talk About Midjourney
- Jul 26, 2023 On Incremental Growth
- Jul 25, 2023 July Cat News: Meet Freya!
- Jul 17, 2023 Writing Tips (Sometimes): Ariele's Hot Take On Writing To Market
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June 2023
- Jun 21, 2023 I Don't Write YA Novels
- Jun 13, 2023 Writing Tips (Sometimes): Shoving Your Reader Over A Cliff (Metaphorically Speaking!)
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May 2023
- May 29, 2023 Writing Tips (Sometimes): Let's Talk About ChatGPT (and other text generative AI)
- May 19, 2023 Absurdism & the Feud of the Robins
- May 16, 2023 Writing Tips (Sometimes): Selling Books In Person
- May 11, 2023 Spring Swarm Season!
- May 4, 2023 How To Pants A Novel
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April 2023
- Apr 28, 2023 The Five Types of Cliffhangers
- Apr 25, 2023 Writing Tips (Sometimes): Scalability & Other Business Buzzwords
- Apr 21, 2023 Join Me For A Workshop On Artificial Intelligence for Authors April 29
- Apr 17, 2023 The Illustrious Piano Award 🎹
- Apr 16, 2023 April Cat New (except this month is about Blueberry)
- Apr 14, 2023 Big News In The Book World: KoboPlus
- Apr 3, 2023 Writing Tips (Sometimes): Let's Talk About Google AI Auto Narration
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March 2023
- Mar 30, 2023 Writing Tips (Sometimes): The Problem With Advice
- Mar 29, 2023 End of March Update
- Mar 28, 2023 March Cat News
- Mar 27, 2023 One-To-One with John DeDakis
- Mar 1, 2023 Writing Tips (Sometimes): One Key Disadvantage of Traditional Publishing
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February 2023
- Feb 28, 2023 Imposter Syndrome: Video!
- Feb 24, 2023 The Swamp Hag of Blackrock Fields: An Excerpt
- Feb 21, 2023 February Cat News
- Feb 20, 2023 Writing Tips (Sometimes): Let's Talk About AI
- Feb 18, 2023 Guerilla Marketing Tactics for Indie Authors (with a little help from Chat GPT)
- Feb 17, 2023 The Swamp Hag of Blackrock Fields
- Feb 9, 2023 The Transformation of My Original Series
- Feb 1, 2023 Writing Tips (Sometimes): The "Scam" Bestseller
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January 2023
- Jan 27, 2023 January Cat News
- Jan 26, 2023 Writing Tips (Weekly) Sometimes
- Jan 25, 2023 Rove City Got A Makeover!
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December 2022
- Dec 19, 2022 Winter Round-Up & Lots of Dog Pictures
- Dec 1, 2022 Deidre Day
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September 2022
- Sep 28, 2022 AI-Generated Images for Aria's Song
- Sep 27, 2022 Aria's Song Maps
- Sep 27, 2022 Undamaged Goods
- Sep 20, 2022 Aria's Song Release (Next Week) and Ariele Fake Graduates with her Fake Master's Degree
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August 2022
- Aug 18, 2022 The Universal Longings Buried in Fairy Tales
- Aug 11, 2022 An Essay About Fairy Tales
- Aug 4, 2022 Patreon Update: Digital Only Rewards + Free eBooks
- Aug 4, 2022 Strolling Through the Antelucan Mist
- Aug 1, 2022 Monster Compendium: City of Dod
- Aug 1, 2022 Future Fantasy: A Genre I Made Up
- July 2022
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May 2022
- May 27, 2022 I Accidentally Released A Book and Other Tales
- May 19, 2022 Monster Compendium: Tentacles and Teeth
- May 6, 2022 End of April Update
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April 2022
- Apr 26, 2022 The Wolf Princess: An Excerpt
- Apr 5, 2022 The Lilac Tree
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March 2022
- Mar 22, 2022 My Very First Quarantine Art
- Mar 11, 2022 The Bench at the End of the Universe
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February 2022
- Feb 15, 2022 An Essay On My Chives Plant
- Feb 14, 2022 A Tribute To Doggo
- Feb 1, 2022 Midnight Flight is here! + New Year Update
- Feb 1, 2022 How To Write The End of a Book (For Pantsers or Discovery Writers)
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January 2022
- Jan 27, 2022 What I Learned About Character Development From My Cheating Ex
- Jan 25, 2022 Tentacles and Teeth Deleted Scene: The Capa
- Jan 18, 2022 Land of Szornyek: Maps
- Jan 10, 2022 Land of Szornyek: Who Are The Lamplighters? (possible spoilers)
- Jan 6, 2022 Ariele University: My Thesis Project
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December 2021
- Dec 30, 2021 For Writers: List of Monster Parts
- Dec 30, 2021 Ariele University: Writing Monsters
- Dec 29, 2021 Ariele University: On Universal Fantasy
- Dec 29, 2021 Ariele University: On Writing by Stephen King
- Dec 24, 2021 The Art of Wandering
- Dec 9, 2021 The Great Unblocking: On Dealing With Creative Blocks
- Dec 9, 2021 On Absurdism: Part 4
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November 2021
- Nov 10, 2021 On Covid Again
- Nov 2, 2021 Sneak Peek at She-Bear
- September 2021
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August 2021
- Aug 26, 2021 The Impact of Narrative In Day-To-Day Life
- Aug 10, 2021 How To Plan An Online Book Launch
- Aug 9, 2021 On Absurdism: Part 3
- Aug 4, 2021 On Absurdism: Part 2
- Aug 3, 2021 On Absurdism: Part 1
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July 2021
- Jul 13, 2021 Rove City Series Update
- Jul 11, 2021 How To Buy E-Books Directly From The Author
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June 2021
- Jun 18, 2021 New Book Release: Voro's Return!
- April 2021
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March 2021
- Mar 11, 2021 Ariele University: The Memoir Project | Heartbeat
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January 2021
- Jan 19, 2021 For Writers: How To Name A City
- Jan 13, 2021 Vault of Bones Cover Reveal!
- Jan 6, 2021 New Year, Same Me, New Books!
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December 2020
- Dec 1, 2020 On Good vs Evil
- Dec 1, 2020 Building & Bursting: A Few Thoughts On Process
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November 2020
- Nov 17, 2020 Pumpkin Pie & Monster Eyes
- Nov 10, 2020 On Covid
- Nov 9, 2020 Fairy Tales & Pants
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October 2020
- Oct 27, 2020 Monsters, Magic, & Mayhem
- Oct 21, 2020 How To Do A Writing Sprint
- Oct 13, 2020 On Audiobooks
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August 2020
- Aug 22, 2020 How To Buy A Book
- Aug 17, 2020 On Street Harassment
- Aug 17, 2020 How To Figure Out Your Target Audience for Authors
- Aug 3, 2020 Developing Unique Social Media Content for Fiction Authors
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June 2020
- Jun 26, 2020 Strategies for Productivity For Writers
- Jun 16, 2020 Separating the Art from the Artist
- Jun 9, 2020 The Launch of Book 3: Lamplighters Society
- Jun 4, 2020 On Being Anti-Racist
- Jun 2, 2020 Lamplighters Society Cover
- Jun 1, 2020 Monster Encyclopedia: Nokka
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May 2020
- May 30, 2020 #georgefloyd
- May 25, 2020 Monster Encyclopedia: Folt
- May 21, 2020 Ariele University: How To Publish A Book
- May 13, 2020 Ariele University: Developing a Core Purpose and Mission For Authors
- May 11, 2020 Monster Encyclopedia: Voro
- May 8, 2020 Ariele University: How To Plot A Book
- May 4, 2020 4 Tips For Igniting Your Creativity When You're Too Stressed To Create
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April 2020
- Apr 27, 2020 Monster Encyclopedia: Hamis
- Apr 13, 2020 Monster Encyclopedia: Gota
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March 2020
- Mar 30, 2020 Monster Encyclopedia: Nincs
- Mar 19, 2020 A Special Update for Rutherford Fans
- Mar 16, 2020 Monster Encyclopedia: Musker
- Mar 12, 2020 What I Love About Fairy Tales
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February 2020
- Feb 20, 2020 Another Fairy Tale In Space: The Silver Arm
- Feb 6, 2020 For Authors: What is Voice?
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January 2020
- Jan 23, 2020 Ariele University: A Franchise Model of Indie Publishing
- Jan 8, 2020 New Year, New Book: The Stalk
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October 2019
- Oct 1, 2019 Ariele University: David and Goliath
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September 2019
- Sep 29, 2019 Monster Encyclopedia: Szamos
- Sep 26, 2019 City of Dod is Here!
- Sep 25, 2019 Monster Encyclopedia: Fireworm
- Sep 22, 2019 Monster Encyclopedia: Duda
- Sep 18, 2019 For Authors: Finding A Cover Designer
- Sep 13, 2019 Monster Encyclopedia: Bogar
- Sep 9, 2019 Monster Encyclopedia: Koponya
- Sep 4, 2019 City of Dod: An Excerpt
- Sep 4, 2019 Tentacles and Teeth: An Excerpt
- Sep 1, 2019 Monster Encyclopedia: Lecui
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August 2019
- Aug 28, 2019 Ariele University: Self-Editing For Fiction Writers
- Aug 26, 2019 Ariele University: Zen in the Art of Writing by Ray Bradbury
- Aug 21, 2019 Ariele University: Storytelling & Pebble in the Sky
- June 2019
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May 2019
- May 22, 2019 Building A Single Marketing Strategy for Authors
- May 19, 2019 It's About You: The Metamorphosis of A Writer
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April 2019
- Apr 30, 2019 Monster Encyclopedia: Minket
- Apr 23, 2019 Monster Encyclopedia: Barlang
- Apr 16, 2019 Monster Encyclopedia: Gyiks
- Apr 9, 2019 Monster Encyclopedia: Fulek
- Apr 8, 2019 Tentacles and Teeth Launch Party
- Apr 2, 2019 Monster Encyclopedia: Hulla & Elnok
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March 2019
- Mar 28, 2019 Launch Day of Tentacles and Teeth!
- Mar 26, 2019 Monster Encyclopedia: Kover
- Mar 19, 2019 Monster Encyclopedia: Pok
- Mar 12, 2019 Monster Encyclopedia: Gamba
- Mar 5, 2019 Monster Encyclopedia: Rarohan
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February 2019
- Feb 26, 2019 Monster Encyclopedia: Nagy
- Feb 18, 2019 Tentacles & Teeth - Survival
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December 2018
- Dec 18, 2018 Holiday Cheer & Monsters
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October 2018
- Oct 31, 2018 Ariele University: Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion
- Oct 15, 2018 A Rose By Any Other Name (such as Ariel Seiling)
- Oct 15, 2018 September/October Monster Report: Latra
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September 2018
- Sep 25, 2018 Ariele University: A Whack On The Side of the Head
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August 2018
- Aug 31, 2018 August Monster Report: Dublagat
- Aug 14, 2018 Rutherford the Unicorn Sheep Sees A Ghost [Preorder & Sneak Peek!]
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July 2018
- Jul 25, 2018 July Monster Report: Melc
- Jul 18, 2018 Ariele University Assignment 1: Steering the Craft
- Jul 13, 2018 Ariele University
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June 2018
- Jun 22, 2018 June Monster Report: Plat
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May 2018
- May 29, 2018 Tentacles and Teeth Cover!
- May 23, 2018 Beamed Up Anthology - Amphibian Press
- May 7, 2018 Monsters and Facebook Live [New Release Incoming!]
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October 2017
- Oct 31, 2017 In The Shadow of Monsters
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September 2017
- Sep 26, 2017 My Mom Says I'm Sneaky
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August 2017
- Aug 29, 2017 The Globe [The Sagittan Chronicles Universe]
- Aug 16, 2017 The Polylocus Problem Ain't A Problem Because It's Done, I Finished It, Hurray
- Aug 14, 2017 A Day in the Life of a Sister
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July 2017
- Jul 27, 2017 I Promise I've Been Doing Stuff
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June 2017
- Jun 19, 2017 Red and White - New Anthology!
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May 2017
- May 22, 2017 Being Gorgeous - Writing the Right Words
- May 12, 2017 A Day in the Life of a Mom
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April 2017
- Apr 17, 2017 A Day in the Life of a Scientist
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March 2017
- Mar 3, 2017 A Day in the Life of a Plus-Sized Woman
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February 2017
- Feb 24, 2017 A Day in the Life of a Wife
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January 2017
- Jan 9, 2017 Everything is Finite
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December 2016
- Dec 1, 2016 Win Your Own Unicorn Sheep
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October 2016
- Oct 18, 2016 Quin Goes On A Date [how romantic]
- Oct 10, 2016 What if John and Quin Had iPhones?
- Oct 3, 2016 I'm An Old Millennial: Thoughts From a Mad Raccoon
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September 2016
- Sep 25, 2016 Watching the Universe Explode
- July 2016
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June 2016
- Jun 28, 2016 I'm Going To Disappear For A While
- May 2016
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April 2016
- Apr 21, 2016 How To Write Taglines For Authors
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March 2016
- Mar 29, 2016 Defeating the Self-Defeatist Brain Monster
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February 2016
- Feb 16, 2016 9 Things About Babies From A Non-Baby Human
- Feb 12, 2016 The State of Graphospasm - 8 Ways To Combat Writer's Block
- Feb 2, 2016 FREE E-BOOKS ARE OF THE DEVIL (or are they...?)
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January 2016
- Jan 29, 2016 How to Write That Book You've Been Thinking About For Years
- Jan 27, 2016 The Sagittan Chronicles: New Cover Design!
- Jan 26, 2016 Some Thoughts On Being Old (Which I Am Not)
- Jan 25, 2016 9 Things I Like About My New Office
- Jan 19, 2016 Episode 2: The Pineapple Princess
- Jan 12, 2016 20 Weirdly Specific Words
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December 2015
- Dec 29, 2015 I Guess It's Winter Now
- Dec 15, 2015 Here's The Thing About Having Friends
- Dec 14, 2015 5 Inches Tall - A Short Story by 8-Year Old Ariele
- Dec 11, 2015 A Turtle Named Lionel [The Turtle Sonnet]
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November 2015
- Nov 24, 2015 New Rutherford Books!
- Nov 20, 2015 National Novel Writing Month 2015
- Nov 9, 2015 It's Carl Sagan's Birthday.
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October 2015
- Oct 7, 2015 Cinderella Told Through Cat Memes
- Oct 6, 2015 A Dash of Fairy Dust: 5 Tips For Writing Successful Blog Posts for Authors
- Oct 6, 2015 Lost Faces and The Eastern State Penitentiary
- Oct 1, 2015 Working With Actors: The Inside Look
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September 2015
- Sep 14, 2015 Rutherford the Unicorn Sheep - Coming Soon to Theatres Near You!
- Sep 1, 2015 Beekeeping Things: A Hive on a House
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August 2015
- Aug 31, 2015 Sagittan Chronicles: An Inside Look
- Aug 25, 2015 The Mac and Cheese Sonnet
- Aug 12, 2015 International Middle Child Day
- Aug 11, 2015 6 Best Internet Cats As Organized by Ariele
- Aug 10, 2015 Episode 1: The Tupperware King
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July 2015
- Jul 27, 2015 Making Myself More Creative
- Jul 24, 2015 How I Feel About Dieting--A Cat Meme Story
- Jul 22, 2015 Beekeeping Things: Peter and Ariele Catch a Late Swarm [Video Series]
- Jul 20, 2015 Camp Nano: I'm Too Sexy For My Shirt
- Jul 15, 2015 The Coworker Sonnet
- Jul 14, 2015 Do You Always Look This Good Or Did You Planet?
- Jul 11, 2015 How People Are Trying To Sell Stuff [With Numbers]
- Jul 7, 2015 Writing A Baseball [An Extremely Extended Metaphor]
- Jul 6, 2015 Beekeeping Things: Ariele and Peter Look In A Wild Hive [Video Series]
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June 2015
- Jun 30, 2015 Beekeeping Things: Ariele and Peter Catch a Swarm [Video Series]
- Jun 29, 2015 The Trials and Tribulations of Rutherford the Unicorn Sheep
- Jun 19, 2015 Cat Memes from A to Z
- Jun 16, 2015 The Umbrella Sonnet
- Jun 10, 2015 Makers and Shakers - Words on Paper
- Jun 9, 2015 My Best Friend Sarah
- Jun 3, 2015 10 Pieces of Furniture Every Writer Needs
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May 2015
- May 28, 2015 The Cat Feet Sonnet
- May 25, 2015 A Man Named Jack: A Story From WWII
- May 21, 2015 Adventures of a Freelancer: The Strategic Approach
- May 20, 2015 I Have A Complicated Relationship With Chickens
- May 18, 2015 The Eternal Silence of These Infinite Spaces
- May 12, 2015 Tedx Piscataqua River--Be Unreasonable
- May 7, 2015 Adventures of a Freelancer: Check Fraud!
- May 5, 2015 Build Your Summer Reading List with Ducks
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April 2015
- Apr 29, 2015 Camp Nano = Success!
- Apr 28, 2015 Happy Birthday, Terry Pratchett
- Apr 22, 2015 Useful Tools for the Self-Employed Author
- Apr 20, 2015 Time Travel Is Possible
- Apr 13, 2015 Winging and Springing and Unicorn Sheep
- February 2015
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January 2015
- Jan 19, 2015 The Slowest Month of the Year: Get the Cupcake
- Jan 12, 2015 Building Characters With Red Pandas
- Jan 7, 2015 Writing in Winter
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December 2014
- Dec 26, 2014 Blog Tour Wrap-Up
- Dec 8, 2014 How to Apologize for your Series not Being a Trilogy
- Dec 4, 2014 National Novel Writing Month Ends
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November 2014
- Nov 4, 2014 National Novel Writing Month Begins
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October 2014
- Oct 14, 2014 The Wounded World Book Release
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September 2014
- Sep 24, 2014 Honey Bees and Dirty Feet
- Sep 9, 2014 Wounded World Book Trailer: Behind the Scenes
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August 2014
- Aug 21, 2014 The Wounded World Cover Reveal
- November 2013
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June 2013
- Jun 4, 2013 The Art of Telling Stories: Aurora Gordon
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April 2013
- Apr 21, 2013 Practicing Gallifreyan