Tag: Blog
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8 Days and Counting
It’s a little soon to be celebrating, but we should take wins where we can get them sometimes. After reviewing my writing habits of what I wrote in January, I made little tweaks to my fiction writing goals each day until I reached 800. I’ve been holding it there as it seems to be a…
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Hard to Care
It’s getting very hard to care about Barnes & Noble failing. I love books. As a reader and a writer. So in general I don’t want to see anything supporting that to fail. But much as with a lot of the way publishers treat writers, Barnes & Noble is treating everyone poorly, except their executives.…
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Nearing Completion
I am just about ready. It’s getting very close. I haven’t published anything since December 2016. Most of my projects have been in some form of initial draft. This year I should at least get 3 different stories out. I am damn close. Over the weekend, Of Earth and Ice part 2 eclipsed 20,000 words…
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Perspective
One of the joys of parenthood comes from the simple activities we share with our children. From this weekend’s activities of igloo building after the snow falls here in Chicago, to playing Minecraft together, to sitting down to draw Pokemon. Each of these and more happened this past weekend, but it is that last activity…
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By Hand or By Keys
I fall into the category of writers who prefer making their work with the aid of a qwerty keyboard rather than expressing ideas with pen and paper. It’s not saying that I don’t like writing by hand; it’s saying that I just prefer the computer. Some time ago, I began to write a lot using…
Jeremy C Kester 