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Passive Voice in Simple Terms
Writing

Passive Voice in Simple Terms

Posted on July 15, 2018July 15, 2018 by R. Jean Bell

Writers hear over and over to avoid passives and use active verbs only. But if you don’t come from an intensive English background, you can…

Firebreak: A Fifty Word Story
Fiction

Firebreak: A Fifty Word Story

Posted on July 14, 2018July 16, 2018 by R. Jean Bell

The untried Firedog stands between village and inferno, testing the wind. At his signal, arrows ignite brush piled beyond the cleared swathe. Wind-fueled flames speed…

Perfecting Our Practice: Balancing Drafting and Editing–Challenge 1
Writing

Perfecting Our Practice: Balancing Drafting and Editing–Challenge 1

Posted on July 13, 2018July 17, 2018 by R. Jean Bell

This article is the first follow-up to my earlier article, Practice Makes Perfect, Right? My goal, as this series continues, is to provide more concrete…

Tattered Butterfly Haiku and Photo
Photography

Tattered Butterfly Haiku and Photo

Posted on July 11, 2018 by R. Jean Bell

tattered and beaten yet still you fly rest your wings and drink

Color Photography: Spiders and Insects
Photography

Color Photography: Spiders and Insects

Posted on July 10, 2018July 25, 2018 by R. Jean Bell
The Offer–Fifty Word Microfiction
Fiction

The Offer–Fifty Word Microfiction

Posted on July 8, 2018July 10, 2018 by R. Jean Bell

The Offer Sign this contract and they could go home–no more shitty apartments. Play the dutiful wife in public. The kids get the benefits of…

Practice Makes Perfect, Right?
Writing

Practice Makes Perfect, Right?

Posted on June 30, 2018July 13, 2018 by R. Jean Bell

Everyone who speaks much English knows the expression practice makes perfect. However, I find the expression “perfect practice makes perfect,” generally attributed to Vince Lombardi,…

Speedy: An Equine Limerick
Poetry

Speedy: An Equine Limerick

Posted on May 12, 2018July 12, 2018 by R. Jean Bell

Hey Speedy. Just quit it you dolt! We all understand you’re a colt. We’ll snip off those balls Before nature calls. So treasure your last…

Volcano: A Micropoem
Poetry

Volcano: A Micropoem

Posted on May 10, 2018July 10, 2018 by R. Jean Bell

pressure building impossible to contain hot magma probes to find a way out won’t take much more before it explodes it’s just not a good…

The Key to Writing Tight Flash Fiction
Writing

The Key to Writing Tight Flash Fiction

Posted on March 8, 2018October 5, 2021 by R. Jean Bell

After struggling some with a flash exercise, I did a lot of thinking, reading, and analyzing about what was necessary to write good flash fiction. The…

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About Me

R. Jean Bell grew up in the United States but has spent the last twenty years in Denmark. A voracious reader since age three, she averages a book a day. She spends her time writing fiction and poetry, doing hobby photography, and being with her husband, horses, and dogs.

Her work appears in Cast of Wonders, ParABnormal Magazine, and more. She additionally took second place in the 2019 BSFS poetry competiton.

She recently joined the first reader team at Apex Magazine.

The bex bee image and the bex-with-book image used with book reviews were both created by the extremely talented Matytan.

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