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An Update on The Story I am Currently Working On
So, it’s Friday. Friday is “writing day” at my household, and today I plan on doing just that… plunking my butt down in front of my laptop and applying fingers to keys until there is significantly more...
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A Year in Review
Well, it’s been a year since I started doing this blogging thing… and I figure that as far as arbitrary reasons to review your work go, successfully circumnavigating the sun once is as good a reason as...
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Reality, and Why I Don’t Care For It…
So I’ve been having a series of interesting talks with a friend of mine who’s in the publishing industry. He works for one of the world’s largest academic publishers, but is also an accomplished sci-fi...
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2,000 Words Further Along
Just a fast update: I wrote 2,000 words today. Too much dialogue, but that can be corrected in editing, I think. I’m actually quite happy with how the writing is going! I also picked up a copy of Orson...
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A Week is Too Long…
So it’s been a week (as I’m sure you’ve noticed, since despite Einstein’s best efforts, time is still functionally a constant for the majority of us). I’ve written between 4 and 5 thousand words, which...
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Getting Up to Speed on Writing
So a few weeks ago I purchased a set of books designed to help aspiring young authors such as myself get more mileage out of their writing. Stuff by Orson Scott Card and Ben Bova, primarily, focusing...
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Twice a Week? Twice a Week.
Okay, so maybe hoping to post three times a week is a little unreasonable with my somewhat packed schedule… the only evenings I currently have nothing planned during an average week is Wednesday, and...
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Work/Life Division
So, I’ve been thinking a lot about my work/life ratio. You know, the amount of time and energy I spend focusing on aspects of my job (that is my current pay-the-bills-although-I-hate-it job) versus the...
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Further Thoughts on Work…
As mentioned in my last post (easily accessible by scrolling down a little bit, since I still haven’t quite figured out how to put my recent posts on one page and my entire archives on another), I’ve...
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A Quick Writing Excuse…
So, I’ve been listening to “Writing Excuses“, the podcast, for a few weeks now. Since I’m a completionist at heart, I had to start from the first season and have just finished listening to “Episode 16:...
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Quick Update
Just a very fast update: I created a new page called “Short Stories and Writing Exercises”, and have posted the first short story there. I’ll post a more robust post later tonight, hopefully!
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On Pre and Post Edited Stories.
You few but awesome followers I have managed to amass thus far are privy to something I don’t normally show people. My pre-edited work. See, most of the time when I write a story, it comes out in a...
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Being an “Artist”
So I’ve been thinking about being an artist. This came out as a result of an off-handed comment by a co-worker. I had complimented some of his work by saying, somewhat jokingly, “Sir, you are an...
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Short Form Versus Long
This is going to be a relatively quick post, for two reasons: 1. I’ve been short on sleep the last few nights, and while exhaustion is a good muse, it’s also a horrible editor… basically, I’ve had to...
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Dear Ol’ Mom and Dad…
When I was growing up, I listened to a tonne of musicals. Opera, really, is where it all got started, since my mother and father listened to that a lot, but it migrated over to the Phantom of the...
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Delays and Such
Well, as many of you have noticed, it’s been awhile since my last post… only about a week, but in our modern, high-speed society, that might as well be the shady side of forever! Thankfully, this delay...
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Another Short Story Done
So I finally finished the “assigned” writing exercise from the last “Writing Excuse” episode I listened to last week… or was it the week before. Gods, it’s been awhile. Anyway, it involved writing...
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Time Flies When You’re Not Having Fun…
So, it’s been about 2 weeks (just shy, actually) since I’ve last updated this here blog. A far cry from my hopes to post multiple times a week, one might say. And I have the standard battery of...
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More Thoughts about Writing Instead of / As Work
So for the last several months, I’ve been back to my full time job 5 days a week. This is in contrast to several months where I was working only 4 days a week… a 20% reduction in my pay as a result,...
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Missing Mona
Well, today I’m doing something that will make me a little sad… I’m dropping off my guitar at my instructor’s house for repairs. Don’t get me wrong. Mona, my guitar, is in pretty dire need of a little...
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