Writing
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“A professional writer is an amateur who didn’t quit.” -Richard Bach. Sometimes, I wonder what the heck I’m doing with this whole writer thing and wondering if I have any sort of capacity for enough talent to make it worthwhile. I’ve started following the blogs of a lot of people who astound me, people who…
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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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I noticed that the main post for A Round of Words in 80 Days mentions figuring out how the goal set has been working and whether or not there needs to be any tweaking. I can say right now, considering I’m supposed to be several chapters ahead and yet I’m still only on the first…
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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…
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Actually, today will be the complete opposite of a manic Monday, and it will be glorious. One benefit, I suppose, to having retail jobs is that most of the time, you’re working a lot on the weekends and, when it comes to be Monday, when the majority of the world grumps about going back to…
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When I drove home from work last night, my intentions were entirely to set to the task of finishing Chapter One, if only because I knew then I could say I at least finished Chapter One, though I’m many, many chapters behind my original (and probably high-arching) goal for A Round of Words in 80…
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As I was working on my two large writing projects going on right now, I noticed something. Both of them had gone into heavy dialogue mode. Each has two of the main characters, discussing matters concern the plot, back and forth between each other with maybe a little description thrown in. When this happens (and…
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I know I’ve mentioned it in passing before, but for those of you reading my blog that might have been wondering, Aryneth is the world on which most of my science fiction and fantasy tales take place. Its history even has a bit of a steam-punk Western chapter, as well, but it is a world…
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Well, here’s another great thing to say about A Round of Words in 80 Days: it gives me material for at least two blog topics a week! Sometimes I am terribly lazy, and it’s nice sometimes to wake up and think, “Hey, I don’t have to try to come up with something to write about…
L.S. Engler 