Burning Thorns – Christine Smith

Burning Thorns // The Story of My Heart

Post published:June 28, 2021
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If you missed it, June has been Beauty and the Beast month over at Fairy Tale Central! And, being as how this is my ultimate, ultimate favorite fairy tale, I have been soaking. it. up. It also made me realize how woefully long it’s been since I’ve talked about my own B&B retelling: Burning Thorns. And that, dear friends, is what I’ve come to do today. Burning Thorns has been a work-in-progress for many, many years, and is easily the story of my heart. But I realize a lot of you may not even know what it is, being as…

{Linkup} The Language of Worlds: Anya

Post published:April 15, 2019
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It’s time for another Language of Worlds! *happy dance* You know I jump at any chance to write a post about my story characters. It’s just way too fun! If you have nooo clue what this is, it’s a writer’s linkup created by the fabulous Liv. K. Fisher, in which she gives us 10 questions every couple of months to answer for any one of our original characters. You can find this newest edition HERE. So life has been, erm, something lately. Alllll of March was spent switching/redesigning my blog to a self-hosted site, as well as working on Fairy…

Goals of 2019

Post published:January 7, 2019
Post category:Life
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Happy 2019, my elflings! It’s…it’s…2019. That feels so weird to type out. But I’m trying to embrace it, because it’s A NEW YEAR. Which means new goals and dreams and hopes and adventures and I’M EXCITED. I do hope your Christmas and New Year’s was lovely. I am back from my little holiday break, and excited to be here because, though my break was fantastic and muuuch needed, I’VE MISSED YOU ALL. A LOT. Being as how it’s (somehow) a new year, that means GOALS. My favorite. #nerd I’m going to do like I did last year and list out…

2018 Recap – A Look Back at My Highlights and Goals

Post published:December 17, 2018
Post category:Life
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Am I the only one who’s in shock that Christmas is NEXT WEEK? And thennn we’ll be zooming straight to the end of 2018. THE END OF 2018??? HOW. Since the year has apparently decided to just go and be nearly over without our permission, that means it’s time for a big ol’ 2018 recap! I’m doing this a little early because I’ve decided after today I’m going on a little hiatus until after New Year’s so I can properly enjoy Christmas and New Year’s. After writing a 129k book in 36 days and keeping up with the blog…

Burning Thorns: Snippets + A Call for Beta-Readers [Closed]

Post published:October 1, 2018
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Happy October!!! Am I the only one in shock it’s already October? Because like…WUT??? But, at the same time, I’M SO EXCITED. The last three months of the year are my faaaave. Between the weather cooling down, NaNoWriMo approaching, and holidays upon us, there is so much excitement to be had during October/November/December. I am in fact getting geared up to start doing some serious NaNo plotting, and will be talking about all that soon (seriously, get ready, it’s getting that time of year where all the talk around here is NaNo #sorrynotsorry). BUT, I’m also still doing some finishing…

5 Ways to Conquer the Editing Dragon

Post published:July 2, 2018
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As you all probably know (since I keep blabbering about it), I’ve been deep into edits for my WIP, Burning Thorns, ever since January, and only just finished a few weeks ago. Editing was a hard and long road. But at the same time? It was kind of amazing. (Shocking, right???) And along the way, I learned a lot. Like a lot a lot! Eventually I’d love to give you guys a look at my editing process and some tips and tricks I used (if you’re interested in that sort of thing, that is?), but today I’m just going to…

Lifely Recap – Finishing Edits, Lots of Painting, Even More Fangirling, and I’m Back!

Post published:June 4, 2018
Post category:Life
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WELL HELLO THERE. Guess who’s back from her hiatus???? Did you miss me? Did you even notice I was gone? Do you even remember who I am? Do *I* remember who I am? *has mini existential crisis* Ahem. Anyways! Apparently May is no longer with us (wow, that sounds like May got murdered or something. Then again…that would explain why it just vanished suddenly, hmmmm), and since I did say I would be returning in June, well, HERE I AM. And my goodness, have I missed you guys! I feel like so much has happened since I was last here…

Beautiful People – Favorites Edition {And the FINAL Beautiful People!}

Post published:April 23, 2018
Post category:Writing
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My absolutely favorite blog linkup is ENDING. And I’m a blubbering ball of sadness. *cue the waterworks* I’m sure most of you know about Beautiful People—a linkup hosted by Sky @ Further Up and Further In and Cait @ Paperfury, in which each month they ask questions for us to answer about our story characters. Talking about my characters (or, ya know, ANY fictional characters) is my favoritest thing on this earth, so naturally I was alllll about this linkup! And GUYS, I’ve been doing it since my first year of blogging. Since before Cait was one of the hosts and…

Five Ways To Expand Your Story

Post published:April 2, 2018
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Some of you may know that my current WIP, Burning Thorns, was originally a 20k novella that I later turned into a full novel. That was my first time ever doing anything like that. I’ve always written novels, but I’ve never turned a novella/short story into a novel. It was a new experience. But it went well. Surprisingly well. That little 20k novella is now a 95k novel and I’m currently editing the 3rd draft. Crazy what little story ideas can become, amIright? I probably should have done a post like this during the expansion days (that was like 2…

The Spring Cleaning Writerly Challenge Tag

Post published:March 26, 2018
Post category:Writing
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Can you guys believe we’ve made it to spring? (Probably not judging by the frigid temperatures…) Hoooow is it nearly April? Pretty sure Christmas was yesterday! But since spring is pounding on the door like an uninvited guest (seriously, I want it to still be January!), I suppose I better let it in and offer it cookies and tea or something. (Please don’t waste your precious lives trying to make sense of my analogies.) In honor of spring arriving and the urge to spring clean, my frabjous and brilliant friend Deborah O'Carroll has created a spring cleaning tag. But we’re…