tarinadeaton@gmail.com – Page 2 – Tarina Deaton

All posts by tarinadeaton@gmail.com

Never, Ever Again #MFRWAuthor

This week’s blogging challenge was a hard one. Not because I had a hard time coming up with something I’d like to never do again, but because I had a hard time narrowing it down to one thing. There

Continue reading

Fandom in Romancelandia

Let’s talk “fans”. Fans are awesome. Fans buy our books and read our stories and tell us they love us and we’re pretty, and fluff our egos. Fans enable us as writers to do what we do. I love fans.

Continue reading

You’re Going To Eat That? #MFRWAuthor

“What Are You Doing?” That’s what my brother-in-law asked the first (and possibly only) time he ever ate cornbread and beans. At least with my family. Most people from the south won’t find anything

Continue reading

So There I Was, Stuck On An Island #MFRWAuthor

This week's prompt ponders, “What I would invent if I was stuck on an island.” One of my favorite movies growing up was Swiss Family Robinson. It was all about the idea of living in a huge,

Continue reading

There’s No Such Thing #MFRWAuthor

Week 8's writing prompt is: Worst Writing Advice I’ve Ever Received I thought about skipping this week since I don’t have a response. Is it weird that I’ve never received bad advice or indicative

Continue reading

Oh The Places You’ll Go #MFRWAuthor

It was bound to happen. I missed the weekly post for the MFRW 52 week blog challenge. I had it typed up. All I had to do was paste it into the website & schedule it. Guess what I forgot to do? Everything

Continue reading

Standing Invitation #MFRWAuthor

This week's writing prompt asks us to name five authors (dead or alive) that we'd like to meet. My first thought was, “I have to narrow it down to only five?” Then I thought, “Oh My God…which

Continue reading

All The Books #MFRWAuthor

Week 5's prompt is to name a book that influenced my life   First, a little background. I was literally that kid whose parents had to take my books away at night so I would sleep. In one house we lived

Continue reading

When I Grow Up #MFRWAuthor

This week’s writing prompt is What would I do if I wasn’t a writer. I came late to writing — I’ve only been published for a little more than two years and have only been seriously writing for a

Continue reading

It’s Cathartic, Right? #MFRWAuthor

This week’s blog topic is, ‘How much of myself is in my writing?’ Well…a lot. In Stitched Up Heart and Locked-Down Heart, the two main female characters are both veterans and both have PTSD. My

Continue reading
1 2 3