Category: Blog
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Diet and Deficit
Holy Caloric Deficit, Batman! For a few months now I’ve been actively fasting. It started with a once-a-week fast that lasted over 24 hours, then it has settled into a daily intermittent fast lasting 12 to 14 hours per day. In a lot of ways it has done really well for me. Unfortunately the scale…
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an odd tool
It’s not so odd really. There’s an entire world on youtube devoted to it. It’s a tool that helps me relax. Movements. Sounds. All work together to produce these tingles that all up to a few years ago I thought didn’t have a name. ASMR. Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response. It’s the feeling of tingles felt…
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10 Open Projects
That’s really is 9 too many. And I don’t mean that there are 10 projects that I am outlining or planning out. No, these are projects that I am actively writing or have started writing. Way too many. As part of my word tracking spreadsheet, I had added a rough, simple project tracker. Yesterday I…
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The Timing is Perfect
Wasn’t I just talking about this? About my recently relearning to write by hand rather than doing everything on the computer? In a post featured on The Passive Voice, linking to a blog on selfpublishingadvice.org, writer T E Shepherd describes how he prefers to write the first draft of his books out by hand. He…
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Before Conclusions
Earlier today I was pointed to an article linked off The Passive Voice where it was asserted that sales of ebooks were again floundering in favor of print books, particularly in the realm of children’s books. The immediate conclusion was that children were getting fatigued from screen exposure. While I’d be excited by the prospects…
Jeremy C Kester 