Random Musings
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Some of you may have noticed: there’s a lot of talk going around about independent publishing, especially e-publishing, and I know that I, for one, have been trying to listen in on as much as I can. Part of me wonders if my interest is purely pre-preemptive, as I have nothing even remotely close to…
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Now, I may be jumping the gun a little on this. I might finish up this post, get to work, hit a stride, and the next thing I know it, I’ve cleared the hurdle and everything is going along swimmingly. But, right now, as it stands, I’m pretty sure that The Unknown Scourge simply does…
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Nearly every writer is familiar with William Faulkner’s infamous advice to kill your darlings in writing. In general, it’s never really taken at the face value to mean to kill off your characters, but rather as a way of saying that cutting out some particularly beloved aspect of your writing will ultimately make it a…
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Sometimes, one of the biggest challenges in my life is the fact that I tend to work best on a particular schedule. I have a certain way of doing things, and when that method is disrupted, for whatever reason, it’s sometimes difficult for me to get back on track. Lately, there’s been a lot of…
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My brief mini-vacation has come to an end, and while it was enjoyable and productive, it will be nice to attempt to go back to things as usual again. Granted, I still have a friend visiting for the next couple of weeks, but she’s an early riser like I am (actually, she’s Dutch, and she’s…
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A terrible thing has happened today. As I write this, I sit in anticipation as I attempt to fix a very dire and serious problem. For you see, this morning, as I type this, I am currently without coffee. My roommate and I have been doing a lot of cleaning to prepare for some visitors…
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There are some days that I cannot think of what to write in this empty blank space waiting for my fingers to fill it with typed words. There are many posts I have been thinking of doing…another Song That Inspires, or finally that post dedicated to my cats (one of whom is doing a fine…
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It’s happened once; it’s happened twice; it has and will happen many, many more times. One of the greatest things about writing is that, sometimes, it’s not the writer who is even writing the story, but the story itself that seems to be driving the writer and his or her creativity to create some that…
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It’s been a while since I’ve done one of these posts; it’s just been a while since I’ve had a dream vivid enough to want to write about it to save it for use later on. The only thing I can say really inspired this is fairly random; I’m working on organizing my room, which…
L.S. Engler 