Random Musings
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Inspired by a few things, I’ve been given some more, serious thought to the idea of keeping the hero in my novel for April entirely nameless. From one standpoint, it makes it a lot easier for me, struggling as I am to find a name that I feel suits her, and, from another, more literary…
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As of right now, the heroine of the new novel is nameless. Right now, that’s fine, as I’m still crafting the prologue and she’s intentionally kept nameless. However, I’m eventually going to get to the meat of the story, and I’ll have to think up a name, and I’m faintly worried about finding something satisfactory.…
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I had, briefly, considered trying to make a post filled with April Fool’s Day nonsense and bullshit, but, to be honest, I’ve never been good at doing stuff like that. I’m terrible at lying convincingly, and so this April Fool’s Post is just like any other post. Or is it? I wanted to offer a…
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One of the reviews of one of the books I’m reading right now (follow all that?) praised the main character for being a “feminist ahead of her time,” and that phrase got me thinking a lot. Especially how inaccurate I felt it was and how, in a way, it seems to decide that feminism and…
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Growing up, I was always playing a lot of video games, on a variety of different platforms, and my absolute favourites were always the action-adventure RPGs. There are, of course, the classics. The Final Fantasy games, Chrono Trigger, Secret of Mana. King’s Quest, Space Quest, Quest for Glory. But there were always some random, lesser…
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My consistency for updating this blog was on such a great streak for a while, and then it went completely to crap. It’s amazing how a few off days with some funky internet and a few off days in life can spawn a whole upheaval of a usual routine. The internet connection has been the…
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In contrast to February, March seems to be a very slowly moving month, and I think that might possibly be because I’m just not getting into the novel for this month as much as I thought I would. I’m still attempting to plod on with it, but I’ll be very glad when it’s April and…
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“If there’s a book you really want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.” ~Toni Morrison I haven’t done a writer quote in a while, so I don’t feel too bad doing it today. This one in particular is a favourite; it makes me laugh because it makes a…
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There are just too many great things to write about there; I really need to keep writing if only to cover all my bases! Riding on the coattails of my musings about westerns, I had a conversation with a friend of mine yesterday about zombies and how zombies are totally hot right now. Not just…
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Last night, I had the chance to see Rango; I have no intention to start using this blog as a platform for movie reviews, as I want to keep the focus entirely on writing and reading, but I did enjoy the film an awful lot. More importantly for what we’re here for today, however, is…
L.S. Engler 