Random Musings
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This is probably something I shouldn’t be saying ever, much less a month and a half before it’s released, but The Slayer Saga: Soulless is not a great book, not by a long shot. Nor will it be. It would take years of editing and revamping and revisions before it even gets close to greatness,…
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If you read my last RoW80 update, you’d have noticed I’m in a little bit of a funk, and, this morning, it hit me like a brick wall exactly why I’ve been feeling that way. I have to admit, it’s pretty uplifting to understand yourself so deeply that you can pinpoint the source of a…
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“He who is afraid to to use an ‘I’ in his writing will never make a good writer.” -Lin Yutang I recently came across this quote in a book about hsiao-p’in poetry, describing how hsiao-p’in distinguished itself by being much more personal. Instead of tapping into the grand universal truths of the world, they looked…
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Contrary to popular belief, “Cat Puddles” does not refer to my felines having an issue containing their bladder until they get to the litter box. “Cat Puddles” is a phrase I coined when the brutal summer last year left my cats flopped over and “puddled” about the cool hardwood floor of the apartment, managing to…
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Recently, I finally got around to putting up a calender and keeping track of the days with it, something I started to make myself a little bit more aware of the passage of time. The only thing that it’s really resulted in is making me feel much more organized and on top of things than…
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“In the case of good books the point is not how many of them you can get through but rather how many can get through to you.”–Mortimer Adler. This beauty popped up on another great quote post from interesting literature, one I take a particular liking to after Lauralynn Elliott‘s Facebook post asking how man…
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