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Snippet Sunday #2

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It’s Snippet Sunday time!!! I haven’t done a Snippet Sunday post in a while, so this is long overdue… 

 

How To Participate In Snippet Sunday: 

  • Share a snippet of your current writing project. It can be a sentence, a paragraph, a bit of dialogue, a poem, a chapter… You get the picture!… 
  • Link your post back to Samantha’s blog, where Snippet Sunday first began! 
  • Drop a link to your post in the comments so I can see it!
  • Have fun, be bookish, and stay writerly! 

 

For a bit of context, this snippet comes from my current project, which is a fantasy novel by the working title of Wishes. It started when I was given a positively hideous assignment for the poetry unit in my English class last year. The reason I passed that assignment was because I ended up writing all the poems as though they pertained to my story to make it slightly less tortuous, and this anagram is one of them that I ended up keeping. It sets up the theme of my story SO well, and I think I’ll probably put it at the front of the book kind of like a mini prologue. 

 

Perfection Flawed 

 

It’s best to keep a common truth, 

Lest a darkened storm should brew. 

For if a lie is seen outside, 

Then flawed perfection hides inside! 

The Handwriting Tag

~ Cheyenne Raphael ~ Leave a comment

I wasn’t officially tagged for this tag, but I’ve seen it around on several blogs and thought it would be a good way for you to get to know me! I won’t tag anyone either, but if you want to do it, feel free to leave a link to your post in the comments. 

 

The Rules: 

  1. Write your name. 

  2. Write your blog name. 

  3. Write your favorite word and it’s definition. 

  4. Write something nice. 

  5. Write the name of your favorite song right now. 

  6. What are you writing with? 

  7. Write a fun fact about yourself. 

  8. Write/draw your favorite emoticon. 

  9. Write a silly message. 

  10. Write who you’re tagging. 

 

My Answers: 

The Handwriting Tag

Since most of you probably can’t read braille, and if you can read braille, you most likely can’t see well enough to read what’s in that picture, I’ll be a nice person and give you a typed transcript of my answers… 

  1. Cheyenne Raphael 

  2. Cheyenne Raphael Writes 

  3. pelican: An aquatic bird of the tropical or warm water family. (there’s an inside joke there.)

  4. all of you people reading this are awesome!!! 

  5. I Am Invincible by Cassadee Pope 

  1. A slate and stylus. (That’s a braille thing, so here’s a pic for you sightlings.) 

Slate And stylus

  1. I got to zip line at night! 

  2. The “face with tears of joy” is the one I use the most. 😂 

  3. The aardvark ate the anteater’s breakfast! I am now scared of the Flexy Keyboard app because it predicted that correctly…. 

  4. Since I wasn’t tagged, I won’t tag anyone either, but feel free to do it if you want! And don’t forget to leave a link in the comments so I can see your answers! 

Snippet Sunday #1 

~ Cheyenne Raphael ~ Leave a comment

It’s finally Snippet Sunday time! I’ve been waiting for this all week! don’t know what I’m talking about? Snippet Sunday is where I share a bit of my writing on this blog every Sunday. Feel free to join in the fun and link to your post in the comments below. 

 

How To Participate In Snippet Sunday 

  • Share a snippet of your current work in progress. It can be a sentence, a scene, a bit of dialogue, a poem, or even an entire chapter. 
  • Link your post back to Samantha Reed, the awesome blogger who originally created Snippet Sunday. 
  • Have lots of fun sharing your writing with the blogosphere! 
  • Feel free to drop a link to your post in the comments below this post so I can enjoy your writing as well. 
  • And it is done! Your Snippet Sunday is now complete! 

For a bit of context, this snippet comes from my Camp NaNoWriMo project. It’s a YA fantasy novel by the working title of Wishes about magic, murder, and things that go unseen. 

 

The Snippet 

I wish I could be like them: blind and deaf to everything that no one should ever have to see or hear. 

Welcome to the Blog of the Bookish and Writerly!

~ Cheyenne Raphael ~ 2 Comments

Hello and welcome to the blog of a writerly bookworm! I’m Cheyenne Raphael, (or that’s my future pen name anyway.) I write young adult fantasy and read a lot. I’m also blind as a bat, (minus the sonar hearing), so I use braille and screen-reading software to read, write, and maintain this blog. Please excuse any odd things like the occasional misplaced picture or oddly colored font… I won’t catch visual things like that unless it pops up in the blog coding, so clue me into anything really weird!

On this blog you can expect to find all sorts of things, including the unexpected! I post book reviews, writing tips and tricks, snippets of my own writing, stuff about the blind and visually impaired, and random life stuff that happens to pop up in my writerly mind! I love hearing from my followers, so feel free to drop me a comment with a post suggestion or just general feedback. If you’d like to know more about me, go here! And if you’d like to contact me directly, go here! I look forward to chatting with all you fellow writers and bookworms!