Clare Graith

Author, Near Future Sci-Fi, Dystopian, Apocalypse

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  • Practice Makes Perfect

    Writer’s Tip#2 It’s no secret that running every morning, taking time at the ball field to swing or pitch, playing scales on a piano, riffing through chords on a guitar, or well, any skill that requires physical coordination, improves with practice. But practice writing? Not just writing and revising a project, but actually just writing…

  • Simple Answers

    100 Word Story It was her routine. Didn’t matter that this morning everything was different. “Excuse me, ma’am, what can I get you?” Her mind was a mess. Even the simple question threw her off. She couldn’t crumble like this. “Coffee maybe?” the Barista said with a smile that seemed to say she’d seen it…

  • Didn’t Expect That

    Have you ever watched a show with funny video clips like “America’s Funniest Home Videos”? If not, picture these scenes and guess what comes after the first few seconds of footage: A man is vaulting through the air toward a horse, arms stretched A teenager starts down the handrail of a flight of concrete stairs…

  • Submerged

    But not for long, Light shines above, Sounds, Yes, music, The anticipation of, Oxygen, Fresh in the lungs. How long have I drifted, In darkness, Murky, Kept beneath the weighted waters, Too deep in the caverns of choice, Going as the undercurrent, Took me, Lost from who I could be? Long enough. I almost forgot,…

  • How to Get the MOST out of a Virtual Conference

    We’ve all been pushed to the outer reaches of cyber-space by COVID-19. Thankfully, it isn’t an alien species. Science can push back and bring us back to near normal earth again. Meanwhile, we regular humans are learning to live in a way that is not our preferred style of social interaction. So, instead of the…

  • Pros and Cons of a Virtual Writer’s Conference- full article.

    I could never have imagined that half my life would be lived on Zoom, didn’t even know what it was less than a year ago. Yet I spent a long weekend ‘attending’ a writer’s conference entirely as a virtual experience. What does ‘virtual’ mean anyway? One definition on vocabulary.com said “exists in essence but not…

NEW Release!

Do you like apocalyptic, second chance romance? See my newest release-

Amazon.com: We are Survivors: An American Apocalypse eBook : Graith, Clare: Kindle Store