Welcome to another instalment of The Writing Process with Riva Frye, an author set to release two books in 2025 with Conquest Publishing. Riva loves anything and everything dark and twisty, telling terrible jokes, and indulging in chocolate. Currently residing in North Carolina, she is an army veteran, mother to…
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I finished a novel, now to get on with editing it. Again…
I finished a novel. If you’re a long time reader you might be thinking this is some déjà vu, since I posted in 2022 I’d finished a novel. This is indeed the very same novel, codenamed #projectmistbound. But that’s the joys and pain of writing. It evolves, it changes, you love…
Poetry
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ESCAPRIL 2023: Advertisement
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ESCAPRIL 2023: If I told you, you’d go mad
I lied when I said the stamp broke by accident, that the box must’ve gotten squished in the cupboard, Leading to the contents getting crushed by the pressure I had this twisted idea that if I told you, you’d go mad I think because you had been stressed lately Still,…
Poetry
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ESCAPRIL 2023: Nocturnal Animal
The blue light thrums gently, fingers tapping away at keys You know you should be asleep but you won’t Your days are spent logging hours at your job But your nights? They are yours. You’ll do everything you wished and wanted But you always end up paying the same price…
Poetry
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ESCAPRIL 2023: Attention
Attention, Attention 3 Tiktoks, 2 Instagram posts, a product placement, retweet me Attention, Attention I need my daily validation from strangers on the internet Attention, Attention 4 Tweets, 5 Snapchats, clothes haul, photoshop Attention, Attention TikTok Live, like and subscribe, pay me your life savings Attention, Attention #breakfastpost, #wokeuplikethis, like…