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  • …and (several) dollars…well, you know how the rest of it goes. I started typing a post for yesterday’s A Round of Words in 80 Days check-in, got about half-way through, and decided to just take the day off. It was a late start, not because of Easter, as I don’t celebrate Easter unless I’m home…

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  • You’ll all have to forgive me, but the other day was Bill Paying Day, which means stress overload in the manners of money, which means I’m throwing a promotional post at you. After giving it a long and hard thought on how best to approach marketing, sometimes I think honesty is the best policy, and,…

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  • Yesterday, I officially finished the rough draft of Soulless (unless you count a potential epilogue that I’m still on the fence about). It’s been several years since I completely finished a rough draft of something, and the feeling is incredibly accomplished. The timing couldn’t be better, either, since Monday I was really feeling like I…

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  • RoW80 Goals!

    Words cannot express how excited I am to be participating in A Round of Words in 80 Days again…well, okay, actually, they can, and quite succinctly, so let’s get on with it. RoW80 helped me so much when I was first starting out, in building relationships with awesome fellow writers and setting achievable goals and…

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  • A Wee Little Catch-Up.

    Usually, if it gets to be this late in the day and I haven’t made a post yet, I leave it for the next day, but I felt the need to still put something up. The only reason why I didn’t post this morning was because I had an unexpected job interview downtown this morning…

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  • I’ve managed to collect a few interesting things from about the Intrawebz to share with you again. Here’s what I found particularly good these last few weeks: From Thought Catalog: Reading about these Untranslatable Words that Have to do with Love really inspired me to want to make a short story based on each word.…

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  • A Cretaceous Cockatrice?

    One benefit about the last stint in my job was that it required a lot of driving, and a lot of driving means a good amount of talk radio. I’ve always been a fan of NPR, but when I heard a story about the Chicken from Hell, a palentologist discovery of a large bird-like dinosaur,…

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  • Author Quotes: Pratchett.

    “Fantasy doesn’t have to be fantastic. American writers in particular find this much harder to grasp. You need to have your feet on the ground as much as your head in the clouds. The cute dragon that sits on your shoulder also craps all down your back, but this makes it more interesting because it…

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  • Awesome Things Volume One.

    Sometimes, trolling around the Intrawebz, I find things that are incredible and want to share them, but, very often, there not enough to build a whole post on or the original content is really best speaking for itself. So, this year, I’m going to also be doing some Awesome Things posts, a round-up of things…

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  • 100 Books of 2013.

    Usually, I like to take a picture of my smallest bookshelf at the end of a year, the one where I shelf the books I’ve read, put it at the front of this post, and then, after listing the books contained within, clear all the books out, take another picture, and end the post with…

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