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

Practice Makes Perfect, Right?
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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,…

The Key to Writing Tight Flash Fiction
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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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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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