inspiration
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Well, I finally did it. I finally got back to starting my workout and meditation routine this morning, so hopefully I can start making it a habit again. I used to do a small session nearly every day before work started to get too overwhelming for me to manage setting the time aside, and I’ve…
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I have become consumed by my writing. For the most part, this is a good thing. An excellent thing. This is the reason why I quit my job, so that I could once again be infused with the passion of creating that I used to have, that has gotten buried under the minutiae of a…
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“Step by step and the thing is done.” -Charles Atlas. Currently, I’m in quite a state of flux, and I’m not quite used to it, so everything feels a little…off. It still, more than two weeks later, hasn’t quite sunk in that tomorrow doesn’t bring a day filled with obligations and work I don’t love.…
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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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Right now, as I’m typing this, I’m on a train cutting through the Michigan countryside, trying not to get sick. One of the benefits of having quit my day job is that I now have the time to visit home, which I haven’t been able to do in two years. Obscene. I’m going on Tuesday…
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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…
L.S. Engler 