Random Musings
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With today being Father’s Day and everything, I felt it was pretty prudent to take a stab at a post celebrating the men who brought us into the world, the men who raised us up from tiny little sprogling to the sometimes-adults we are today, hammering away at our keyboards and trying to make a…
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“As young readers like to know `how people look’, we will take this moment to give them a little sketch of the four sisters, who sat knitting away in the twilight…”–Louisa May Alcott, Little Women Whenever it comes to introducing a new character or describing them, I almost always think of this quote from Louisa…
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My mornings are sacred. There used to be a time (we’ll call it “college”) where I considered myself a night owl. Classes were carefully chosen to start much later in the morning, if not in the afternoon, and I was a closer at my job, sometimes not getting home until two in the morning. And…
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Today’s post will be a random hodge-podge of various things I felt like noting. Sometimes, it’s just good to be random. Yesterday, the news hit that Ray Bradbury had died. I realized that, though I quote Bradbury often (what a brilliant, inspired mind!), I have never actually read any of his work. As a matter…
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“There are three reasons for becoming a writer. The first is that you need the money; the second, that you have something to say that you think the world should know; and the third is that you can’t think what to do with the long winter evenings.” -Quintin Crisp Reminding me a little bit of…
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“Any man who keeps working is not a failure. He may not be a great writer, but if he applies the old-fashioned virtues of hard, constant labor, he’ll eventually make some kind of career for himself as writer.” -Ray Bradbury. The realization that I haven’t done a Writer Quote post in a long time struck…
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Almost any writer will tell you that they have a particular place to go to do their work that inspires them and drives their creativity. For some people, it’s a nice quiet office-slash-library, surrounded by books, at a nice desk. Others fit the mold of the laptop-dragging coffee shop regular. Some prefer the library, and…
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As the past few days without a post and the utter lack of a flash fiction for this week, I think it’s safe to say that I’m having another “off” moment lately. Part of me wants to say it’s just tunnel vision for the Bowlful of Bunnies project; another part of me wants to claim…
L.S. Engler 