Random Musings
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Usually, if it gets to be this late in the day and I haven’t made a post yet, I leave it for the next day, but I felt the need to still put something up. The only reason why I didn’t post this morning was because I had an unexpected job interview downtown this morning…
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A funny thing happens when you quit your day job and take an impromptu trip to Michigan to crash at your parents’ place for a week. Inspiration, which you’ve been mostly too tired or braindead to truly appreciate, comes rushing back to you like a tidal wave and you want to write all the things.…
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“Books aren’t written, they’re rewritten. Including your own. It is one of the hardest things to accept, especially after the seventh rewrite hasn’t quite done it.” –Michael Crichton This is the quote I turn to when I start to wonder if Serpent in a Cage will ever become a book. I’m sure some of you…
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I’ve managed to collect a few interesting things from about the Intrawebz to share with you again. Here’s what I found particularly good these last few weeks: From Thought Catalog: Reading about these Untranslatable Words that Have to do with Love really inspired me to want to make a short story based on each word.…
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“If you write one story, it may be bad; if you write a hundred,you have the odds in your favor.” Edgar Rice Burroughs Now that I’m officially a Full-Time Author, the time has come to get back to focusing on producing more content. This is easily my biggest challenge with writing. I’m a good writer,…
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One benefit about the last stint in my job was that it required a lot of driving, and a lot of driving means a good amount of talk radio. I’ve always been a fan of NPR, but when I heard a story about the Chicken from Hell, a palentologist discovery of a large bird-like dinosaur,…
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Anyone who knows me well knows that I have difficulty being patient, especially once I’ve decided something and I’m looking forward to do it. The countdown has started for my last days as someone with a “Real Job,” about to embark on being the full-time self-employed writer of my dreams. These next four days feel…
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“I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you do, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”–Maya Angelou This here quote from Maya Angelou is pretty iconic; at least I have been seeing it pop up a lot lately and I was fairly familiar with it for…
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I’m proud to announce that a great milestone has been made today. My very first author interview went up over at Knite Writes and I’m just pleased as punch. It really gives me that punch of enthusiasm to keep striving for more in my writing career and there’s just something about seeing your face and…
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Funny how time flies. Not so much from having fun in this instance, but from just having too much damn stuff to do. Here we sit, halfway through February already, and I’m boggling on how it felt like just the other day, it was January and I was setting lofty and impressive goals for myself,…
L.S. Engler 