random musings
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I don’t know if you noticed or not, but it’s hot out. Really hot. Some might even go as far as to say sweltering hot. Scorching hot. Hot, hot, hot. I don’t do well in the heat. Everyone here jokes that it’s because I’m from Michigan, but I’ve always been a little bit susceptible to…
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So, remember my buddy Erasmus and what he had to say about the desire to write growing with writing? Well, these stories in my head, they are like limes: Lately, especially today, after a freak storm with hail and lightning and possibly cows flung through the air at an alarming rate sent me home from…
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I really enjoyed this article and interview with Lee Child. I think I’ve read one book in which Child had a hand, but there was something in the article that really struck me and made me want to read more of his work: “…Child scoffed at the conventional rule that writers must ‘show, don’t tell.’…
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The other night was an evening of celebration. My roommate and I went off to one of my favorite restaurants, Baisi Thai, where there was feasting and our usual nerdy babble. The discussion drifted onto books, which lead me to make the executive decision to drift over to Barnes & Noble. There, we did a…
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“As young readers like to know `how people look’, we will take this moment to give them a little sketch of the four sisters, who sat knitting away in the twilight…”–Louisa May Alcott, Little Women Whenever it comes to introducing a new character or describing them, I almost always think of this quote from Louisa…
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My mornings are sacred. There used to be a time (we’ll call it “college”) where I considered myself a night owl. Classes were carefully chosen to start much later in the morning, if not in the afternoon, and I was a closer at my job, sometimes not getting home until two in the morning. And…
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Today’s post will be a random hodge-podge of various things I felt like noting. Sometimes, it’s just good to be random. Yesterday, the news hit that Ray Bradbury had died. I realized that, though I quote Bradbury often (what a brilliant, inspired mind!), I have never actually read any of his work. As a matter…
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“There are three reasons for becoming a writer. The first is that you need the money; the second, that you have something to say that you think the world should know; and the third is that you can’t think what to do with the long winter evenings.” -Quintin Crisp Reminding me a little bit of…
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“Any man who keeps working is not a failure. He may not be a great writer, but if he applies the old-fashioned virtues of hard, constant labor, he’ll eventually make some kind of career for himself as writer.” -Ray Bradbury. The realization that I haven’t done a Writer Quote post in a long time struck…
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Almost any writer will tell you that they have a particular place to go to do their work that inspires them and drives their creativity. For some people, it’s a nice quiet office-slash-library, surrounded by books, at a nice desk. Others fit the mold of the laptop-dragging coffee shop regular. Some prefer the library, and…
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