Random Musings
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I used to draw a lot. Most of my drawings were either fanart or sketches for characters and scenes in my writing. Some of it was pretty good; most of it was fairly bad. I posted often to sites like Elfwood and deviantART but it’s been a long, long time I since I really seriously…
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I can’t believe February is almost over already. I’m in that spot where part of me just wants to get to March, while the other part of me is wondering if March will really be much different. I do seem to have a more predictable work schedule in March, with a birthday toward the end…
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“The answers you get from literature depend on the questions you pose.” – Margaret Atwood I woke up this morning wanting to do a Margaret Atwood quote; I adore the woman and her writing and find her such an inspiration and a fascinating soul. Most of her quick-search quotes aren’t even really about writing; they’re…
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I’ve commented on this phenomenon not too long ago, but I love the fact that, with writing, the adage of “when it rains, it pours” seems to apply equally well. These last few days, if you’ve been following along, I’ve been dedicating myself to sitting my butt down and just writing some of the monthly…
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So, yesterday, I did what I knew would be beneficial and what I’ve been talking about doing for the past few days in this blog, and, sure enough, I was correct. Not wanting to get too entrenched into anything before I had to leave for work, I shut off the computer, pulled out my notebook,…
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“The writer must earn money in order to be able to live and to write, but he must by no means live and write for the purpose of making money.” -Karl Marx I didn’t want to fall back on this, but, when I’m in a long stretch of a lot of other work and haven’t…
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I mentioned, in my last post, that I had picked the book up from the bargain basement at Horizon Books in Traverse City, MI. Horizon is one of the many, many, many reasons I miss that small northern city, and it got me thinking about how nice it would be to find a version of…
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I’ve been thinking a lot about characters. This is a typical response to when I’m working on an Aryneth novel, because the Aryneth books are so heavily character-based stories, stuffed with colourful personalities, to the point where I have been accused of putting in too many characters (and sometimes I agree with that, but then…
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I’ve been thinking about the novel I’ve actually finished a lot lately, which is good, considering it should have been edited, you know, yesterday. Since yesterday was Valentine’s Day, and I always feel like doing something with shipping on Valentine’s Day, I was thinking this morning about shipping in the novel, and, more specifically, how…
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Happy Valentine’s Day, readers! I’m not usually a big proponent of this particular holiday, and I’m actually spending most of it working at both my jobs, so my romance today is with commerce and capitalism. I am going to give myself a goal of writing at least one little romantic vignette between my characters as…
L.S. Engler 