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A Long-Winded, Meandering Treatise On My Writing
Who knows why, but I keep getting stuck. Maybe it’s anxiety; maybe it’s ignorance. Either way, I go back and forth in the wonderful world of writing so often that it’s a wonder that my head hasn’t snapped off. One second I think I have it all figured out, and the next I suddenly “realize”…
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What of Dreams?
What do dreams mean? Not those random visions we see in an almost hallucinatory manner as we slumber at night. Rather, the dreams that make up our goals, our ambitions. Why do we yearn for these things? Why is it they take up so much of our energy as we pine for them to come…
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Words to Ponder #3
“Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one’s thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist. That, of all rights, is the dread of tyrants. It is the right which they first of all strike down. They know its power. Thrones, dominions, principalities, and powers, founded in injustice and wrong, are sure to tremble, if…
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Words to Ponder #2
“If you wish to improve, be content to appear clueless or stupid in extraneous matters – don’t wish to seem knowledgeable. And if some regard you as important, distrust yourself.” Epictetus Epictetus was a stoic philosopher, and my favorite among them. The message here is clear: if you want to learn or do better, don’t…
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Cleaning
We like new things, us writers. New pens. New notebooks. New books. Even new WIPs (work in progress). If anything, we love new WIPs most of all. Well… some of us do, anyway. Think of a new story idea like that of a new romance. It’s invigorating. Enticing. Exciting. We stare dreamily into the distance,…
Jeremy C Kester
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