Inspiration
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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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Anyone who knows me well knows that I have difficulty being patient, especially once I’ve decided something and I’m looking forward to do it. The countdown has started for my last days as someone with a “Real Job,” about to embark on being the full-time self-employed writer of my dreams. These next four days feel…
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“I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you do, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”–Maya Angelou This here quote from Maya Angelou is pretty iconic; at least I have been seeing it pop up a lot lately and I was fairly familiar with it for…
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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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So, tonight, I wasted too much time on a reddit thread about books you hate with a passion, having come across a few classics that I absolutely adore but I could understand why people weren’t fans. This mostly hit me when I came across Little Women and Anne of Green Gables, two classic staples that…
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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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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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“If you can tell stories, create characters, devise incidents, and have sincerity and passion, it doesn’t matter a damn how you write.” –W. Somerset Maugham For someone I’ve never even read, W. Somerset Maugham shows up on my quote pages quite a lot. When I go hunting for quotes or when they just pop up…
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As far as fantasy goes, I’ve always been inspired by Tolkein’s scholarly breadth of detail in his worldbuilding, most notably his dizzying work with creating full, functional, quite honestly breathtaking structures of language. Naturally, this is something I’ve always wanted to weave into my worldbuilding for Aryneth, but, as one would imagine, languages are not…
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““There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.” –Maya Angelou. I am a woman of a million stories, each of them bearing down on me and trying to latch onto my imagination. I love this about myself; I have never truly known writer’s block and there’s always something I can be…
L.S. Engler 