Christine Rose

Category: Personal

  • Learning to Live + Yummy Recipe!

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    Over the past week, I’ve been reading about healthier diets pretty close to nonstop. I’ve been trying new recipes and creating some of my own, so I’d like to share those with my readers. The last few years have been extremely difficult. In summary, as I don’t want to bore you with my life story,…

  • Danser Sur Ta Tombe

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    “Danser Sur Ta Tombe” Original Painting Acrylic & Mixed Media on Canvas Board by Christine Rose Daphne was in deeply love, but her lover was just very good at pretending to be, which afforded him the opportunity to delight in her destruction, piece by piece. Heart, mind, body, and soul. Then, discarded her. After a…

  • Writer Tip: Tired Plots, or Stories to Avoid

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    For the past two years, I’ve been utilizing the wonderful service of Duotrope to find markets for my short fiction and to keep track of what I sent where. All my short fiction is published under my pen name, O. M. Grey, and I’ve had a considerable amount published since 2011. While researching one of…

  • Process, Word Count, and Inspiration

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    Being a writer means you write. A lot. Like, everyday. I’ve been there, staring at a blank page not knowing how to begin, but I also know that the only important thing is to begin. However you begin. It’s at this point, when either I don’t know how to begin or I don’t know how…

  • Writer’s Bloq

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    From their Kickstarter: Writer’s Bloq is taking on an enormous problem. Only .03% of manuscripts submitted to publishers are published, and the average self-published book sells under 20 copies. At the end of the day, it’s the same story; it is extremely difficult for writers to get discovered and publish successfully without the substantial backing…

  • Simple Meditation Techniques to Stumble Upon Peace

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    In this messy and chaotic life, human has become a highly stressed and disturbed. People are too busy in their professional life or in other activities; they are so busy that they don’t bother about themselves. They don’t have time for themselves. Human’s biggest strength is peace of mind as it gives him strength to…

  • Podcast Hiatus

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    With impending deadlines and the approaching holidays, I’ve decided to take a hiatus from podcasting until the beginning of 2012. Until then, I should be able to keep up at least some of the other posts, but if not, I’ll be back in full form in 2012.

  • Guest Post: Publishing – Why It Just Isn’t the Same

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    Guest Post by Dee Mason. Book publishers must be sitting uneasily right about now. With the recent launch of four new kindle editions (including one that’s bound to take some market share from the iPad), it’s for certain that Amazon is betting on e-publishing as the wave of the future. In this year alone, we’ve…

  • Sporadic Posts

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    This summer has been one of great loss and grief. Not only did I suffer the betrayal of a dear friend, but I also lost two of my three doghters to death. They were old, 14 and 15 years old, but they were my baby girls just the same. So my little family was cut…

  • 10 Years Ago

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    Like everyone else who was alive and old enough to form narrative memories on that horrible day, I remember exactly where I was when I heard about the attacks. I remember the questions that came pouring in, the exaggerated death toll, the fear of what it all meant. I remember feeling scared and confused. It…