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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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“Perhaps there are no Angels. Only fairies. Oh, what a wicked world…I cannot bear to think of it…” “Lady Cottington’s Pressed Fairy Book” by Terry Jones and Brian Froud When this book was released by Barnes and Noble in 2001, I was fairly obsessed with it. I always had the calendars and it cemented by…
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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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February has been a rough month for my productivity. I’m not quite sure what it is; part of me wonders if it’s just the psychological stress of feeling like you have fewer days to shove just as much stuff in, but this month has been a tricky one. Nothing has suffered quite as much as…
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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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“To the People! To the beautiful, simple People, so noble in spite of centuries of brutalizing suffering! Like a clarion call the notes ring in my ears, amidst the din of contending views and obscure phraseology. The People!” – Alexander Berkman. “To the Other Side: The Russian Jewish Intellectuals Who Came to America” by Steven…
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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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