Projects
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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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I’ve been talking an awful lot about Soulless lately without…really talking about it. Today, that changes, as I’d like to introduce everyone to the project that is rightfully taking over my life right now, considering it will likely be the next book I publish and I hope to have it published around September (knock on…
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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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A funny thing happens when you quit your day job and take an impromptu trip to Michigan to crash at your parents’ place for a week. Inspiration, which you’ve been mostly too tired or braindead to truly appreciate, comes rushing back to you like a tidal wave and you want to write all the things.…
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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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“…’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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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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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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