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Words to Ponder #1
I’ve decided to try another regular feature on this site, something that is relatively easy (vs trying to come up with a short story each week for Free Fiction Friday… which might happen some time in the future). Anyway, the point of this one is simply a quote, passage, phrase, or what-have-you that strikes me…
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A Hard Lesson
This is happening too often. In front of me, a story sits, 70K words in, and I am spiraling out of control. It is to be a lengthy story, an epic, in the fantasy genre, with my estimates being somewhere in the neighborhood of 200K+ when finished. And for the most part, I know the…
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Introducing 2023
We’re a day into the New Year, as of this post at least. As I write this, it is in the waning few days of 2022, sitting in my den with a sleeping dog next to me. As said previously in my spur-of-the-moment last post of 2022, I decided to think hard on the things…
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Well… it was a year
2022 is coming to a close, and this morning, I realized that this was the last Monday of the year, meaning, that it is to be the last “regularly” scheduled post of 2022 for this site. (I put quotes on that word given as to how sporadic posts here have been over the year.) It…
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Why I am Failing as a Writer: Part 10 – The Blame Game
I am unsure if this is going to be the last post or if there will be more. When I started writing these posts, taking a harder look at my own thoughts and habits encircling my writing — both career-wise and the act of writing itself, there were only 6 or 7 of these posts…