GET TO KNOW MARIE

About Me — Marie A. Rebelle

I’m a writer. Always have been. Always will be.

In 2012 I chose ‘Marie Rebelle’ as my pseudonym — my pen name. The name fitted me like a glove, so much so, that I added the initial of my birth name to it, and became Marie A. Rebelle.

Up to 2012, I used several pen names, the last one being ‘Rebel’, which for years had been my handle in online chat rooms. When I chose Marie Rebelle as a pen name, I wanted the ‘Rebel’ to be reflected in there, and the name Marie fitted so perfectly with my given name, that the name just felt like me! Therefore I jumped to use it in connection with the French surname ‘Rebelle’.

Marie A. Rebelle is me and I am Marie A. Rebelle.

Who am I?

I’m a woman, a wife, a mother, a daughter.

I’m a colleague, a friend and a lover.

Born and raised in South Africa, I turned 50 in 2017, live in the Netherlands (since 1994), and in my professional life I work in finance. I was a manager until 2018, but because of a mental breakdown after the passing of my mom in 2017, I took a step back from management.

This is not because I am someone who easily gives up. It’s because I push on and push through, no matter what, and then realize almost too late that something needs to happen or I will break. I am a strong person, and eventually stepping back from (potentially) bad situations is not a sign of weakness. Besides being a strong person, I am also highly driven and motivated, righteous and fair, supportive and respectful, and an empath.

In my personal life, I am married to the love of my life, and we have three adult children, and two grandchildren.

My writing history

From the time of primary school, I reveled in writing essays in Afrikaans and English, and my love for that continued into high school. I read every book I could lay my hands on, and by the time I was fourteen, my love for reading and writing married and I wrote my first novel. It was hand-written — a story about an abduction in the desert, and the sexy things that happened when the young woman in captivity fell in love with her captor, who just happened to be a sheikh. There was as much erotica in the novel as a fourteen-year-old could dream up, which is much tamer than the stories I wrote in later years, and write nowadays.

In my twenties, busy raising children, I didn’t get to writing, but I dreamed up stories all the time. By the time I turned thirty, I started to write again. The last year I lived in South Africa was horrible, and that was the first story I penned to paper, self-publishing the book in 2008. The next year I self-published the story of a friend, who passed away from AIDS in 1999.

My love for writing came flooding back, and I started writing shorter stories again. I wanted a place to share them, which is how Rebel’s Notes was born.

I haven’t stopped writing since, but it’s not only fiction anymore.

My website, Rebel’s Notes

Besides the things mentioned above, I also identify as submissive, bisexual and an exhibitionist. I love to share my real sexual experiences and fantasies, and both shine through in my erotic fiction.

However, this is not all what Rebel’s Notes is about. I share all of me, not only the sexy side. You will read about my physical and mental health, about my fears and concerns (especially those for my husband’s health), about my happiness and sadness, about love, music, books, diet, menopause, and memories from the past. Actually, there might be a post on almost any subject you can think of.

Rebel’s Notes is a lifestyle blog, and therefore deals with all aspects of my life, whether sexy or not. It’s my place on the net to share my thoughts about things I love or things that scare me. I don’t share only the sunny side of life, but also the darker, even though it sometimes takes a lot longer to share those darker things, mostly because I am still working through it, or trying to find the words.

Besides words, I also share sexy images of myself, some of them taken by my husband, but many of them self-photography in my own little photo studio.

Rebel’s Notes turned eleven years old at the end of January 2021, and I am still not done writing. I will keep on sharing, because if my words can help one person out there to realize they are not weird for liking certain things, for being happy or scared or sad, or crazy for having different opinions, it makes my writing worth the time I spent on it. Time I absolutely love spending on it.

My website is a major part of my life and will be for many years to come.

Other projects

Rebel’s Notes is not my only online project. There are three more:

Wicked Wednesday I started the Wicked Wednesday meme in June 2012. The meme works with a weekly prompt, and I am proud to say that in the last week of 2021, the 500th prompt will be presented. Writers have found each other through this meme, and beautiful collaborations have been started. Some bloggers linked only once, and then disappeared, others have been participating every week for years.

After some years of doing the meme, I started doing a top 3 of the linked posts from the previous week, and eventually asked other participants to host the top 3. There is a real sense of community, of support, and this makes me proud!

The Menopause Diaries The Menopause Diaries started as a project on my site, then moved to become an element of the Wicked Wednesday site and in March this year, it moved to its own home.

The name of this meme already says what it is about: menopause. Many fellow bloggers are in the same age group as I am, and menopause is a big part of our lives. With this meme I wanted to give people a place to share their experiences and worked with monthly prompts. Up to now (June 2021) the meme is still very quiet, and I have decided to wait until December, and then decide where I will take it; how I will change it. Ideas are already forming…

Blogable In 2020, after an especially turbulent time (not corona-related), May More asked me and Missy to start a project together with her — the amazing Blogable Club.

Blogable is a project where May, Missy and I share our knowledge and skills of blogging, and writing, both the practical and technical sides. Even though the site is only just a year old, it’s already filled with a wealth of tips and tricks, and there’s more to follow. Besides the knowledge we share, we also run a writing marathon, which came from a creation of mine, which I had run for the seven preceding years on a different website. We hope to continue doing the writing marathon annually.

One of the best things of Blogable is that all information is free.

Medium & me

I’ve had my Medium account for years, but only used it to comment on posts that were linked to Wicked Wednesday. Then May wrote a basic guide to Medium, and suddenly there was a new platform I could use to share my writing.

Most of my stories are shared through the publication, Tantalizing Tales, and I hope to build a nice following on Medium for my erotic fiction.

Almost all stories I share on Medium have first been published on Rebel’s Notes, but when putting them on Medium, I edit the stories, which hopefully make them better and stronger.

Writing is in my blood, and as a writer I want my stories read, and Medium definitely helps with that!

Also find me here

Besides here on Medium, you can also find me here:

* Twitter * Kofi * Email: [email protected]

Thank you for reading, and for your support!