Challenges
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Funny how time flies. Not so much from having fun in this instance, but from just having too much damn stuff to do. Here we sit, halfway through February already, and I’m boggling on how it felt like just the other day, it was January and I was setting lofty and impressive goals for myself,…
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“…’But if you start down a road you can’t see the end of, there’s a chance you’ll find some dark things along it.’” “The Sharing Knife Volume One: Beguilement” by Lois McMaster Bujold My delve into this series by one of newest writerly influences, Lois McMaster Bujold, lead me to realize one solid conclusion: I…
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Well, it’s Monday. For most people, Monday means a return to the grueling grind of daily life, but, for me, Monday is sacred. It’s the one and only day of the week where I can truly dedicate myself to my writing as a career. Very rarely do I have any obligations on a Monday these…
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Ever have that feeling like you’re all ready to be productive, get stuff done, so you open up your Internet browser, thinking, this is going to be an accomplished day? Then you pull up WordPress, open up a new post, sitting there blank and ready, an open canvas. You poise your fingers eagerly over the…
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Today is the first day of the life I want to live. A bold statement. But what the heck does it mean? It isn’t the first time I’ve written in this blog about the fact that, if I want to make writing my life, I have to start treating it like the job I want…
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Here in Chicagoland…err, I mean, Chiberia, we’re experiencing record cold temperatures. Naturally, schools are closed, events are canceled, but in our crazy consumerism world, shopping malls are still open. I work at one of those, an outdoor mall, to boot, so I almost had to work today, but my Florida-native general manager managed to convince…
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This is the time of year for new beginnings. It’s the time where we look ahead to the new year and start making plans for what we’d like to accomplish. A lot of things you can’t really predict. I know that this time last year, I would have never imagined I’d be where I am…
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“‘I mean, foolish boy, that what matters are the memories in our heads, not smudges of ink on paper.’” “Magic: the Gathering: Rath and Storm, a Magic: the Gathering Anthology” edited by Peter Archer Calling Rath and Storm an anthology seems a little bit of a misnomer; though it’s a collection of stories put together…
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“‘“If you want to know what a man’s like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.’” “Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire” by J.K. Rowling The nice thing about the fourth installment of the iconic Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling is that it’s not only a book,…
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