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  • Some of you may have noticed yesterday that I’ve been M.I.A. due to a broken computer and anxiously awaiting a new one. That new computer has (finally!) arrived, so now we’ve back in business, and it’s time to really reconnect with my RoW80 goals, especially as we’re heading on toward the finish line of this…

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  • Aww Yiss…..Monday!

    Not gonna lie. This is how I feel about Mondays: You see, as I mentioned a couple weeks ago, I love Mondays. Mondays are like a great big old reset button, so that no matter how last week was, this week is a new, fresh one where you can start over and do better. Not…

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  • It’s Sunday, which means it’s time for another RoW80 update! Today’s update is the good kind of update, too, where I don’t have much to report on because things have been going nice and smooth. With nothing big really happening except for the steady progression of my goals, one might even go as far as…

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  • “In a flash, only thirty years, the Mongol warriors would defeat every army, capture every fort, and bring down the walls of every city they encountered. Christians, Muslims, Buddhists, and Hindus would soon kneel before the dusty boots of illiterate young Mongol horsemen.” “Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World” by Jack Weatherford…

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  • …and (several) dollars…well, you know how the rest of it goes. I started typing a post for yesterday’s A Round of Words in 80 Days check-in, got about half-way through, and decided to just take the day off. It was a late start, not because of Easter, as I don’t celebrate Easter unless I’m home…

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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,…

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  • 100 Books: Beguilement.

    “…’But if you start down a road you can’t see the end of, there’s a chance you’ll find some dark things along it.’” “The Sharing Knife Volume One: Beguilement” by Lois McMaster Bujold My delve into this series by one of newest writerly influences, Lois McMaster Bujold, lead me to realize one solid conclusion: I…

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  • Just Another…

    Well, it’s Monday. For most people, Monday means a return to the grueling grind of daily life, but, for me, Monday is sacred. It’s the one and only day of the week where I can truly dedicate myself to my writing as a career. Very rarely do I have any obligations on a Monday these…

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  • 100 Books of 2013.

    Usually, I like to take a picture of my smallest bookshelf at the end of a year, the one where I shelf the books I’ve read, put it at the front of this post, and then, after listing the books contained within, clear all the books out, take another picture, and end the post with…

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  • Almost Quitting.

    Today, a terrible thing almost happened. I almost quit NaNoWriMo. With only a week left to go, that’s a pretty extreme decision, and the fact that there’s only one more week left to go is one of the many reasons I decided to keep going. You see, November is a very crazy month for me.…

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