Tag: life
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Ideal
I sometimes confuse my ideals with the reality of living. They cloud my judgement often as I look for some way to paint the world with colors of betterment for all mankind. Until life shows me that I am a fool. Ideals are the targets. Like perfection, they are never to be achieved, as perfection…
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Narrow
We live in a very narrow field. Our planet in on a narrow band within a star system. Our bodies must maintain a very narrow temperature range with our own body only able to manage a slightly less narrow range without the aid of our inventions. What we see falls in a narrow band of…
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A Year Lost
It has been a year and 6 days since I had suspended my daily writing goals. Things happened and only recently have I sat down, stopped making excuses, and started the writing daily goal once again. A year was lost to my excuses. Now sure, I wrote during this year between today and when I…
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Habitual
Habit is that thing that you often do without thinking. Often we only think about habit when it is an inconvenience, when it is something that we want to expunge from our life. And while we identify these habits as the obstacles in the way of progress, such as smoking, or such as my pot-a-day…
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A Six-Month Plan
Last year, by September, I had completed six separate drafts. That’s six stories. Two novels; three novellas; one middle-grade book. Six. That’s a lot. And while I have those six stories waiting to be reviewed, revised, edited, and/or rewritten, I am trying to press forward once again to write more fiction outside of that revision…
Jeremy C Kester 