random musings
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As the past few days without a post and the utter lack of a flash fiction for this week, I think it’s safe to say that I’m having another “off” moment lately. Part of me wants to say it’s just tunnel vision for the Bowlful of Bunnies project; another part of me wants to claim…
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Do you ever feel that the writing bug (or any creative bug for that matter) bites hardest when you don’t have time to work on? I certainly do, and I’m feeling the brunt of this phenomenon right now. I sort of knew this would happen; I know how I work, and it seems that I…
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Though it isn’t by any means a recent trend, the cult of the Raging Feminist has come to my attention a lot lately, mostly due to the recent love of A Song of Ice and Fire in my apartment right now. As a series with a good deal of sex, rape, whoring, abuse, etc, etc,…
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Though a combination of feeling a little off and some bad blood at work has me feeling uninspired this morning, I’m reminding myself of my “write anyway” motto and trying to put together a post for the day. After all, my minimum word count for these things is only 200 words, which is easy enough,…
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One of the most commonly spouted words of wisdom given to writers, especially in the face of the crippling and dreaded Writer’s Block, is to keep writing anyway. Even if the words are downright terrible and awful, it’s better to have some words flowing out of you than nothing at all. And I’m a big…
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Usually, I allow myself at least one day per month where I can pass on making a blog post. I usually reserve these for those particularly blah days where I’m uninspired, can’t find anything interesting to write about, or just simply don’t have the time. Today was almost one of those days. After all, it’s…
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“Eight hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year, that’s the only way I know how to do it.”-Philip Roth. We’ve all heard the advice often given to fledgling, wanna-be writers that the only way to go about turning writing into your career is to treat it like a career, an idea…
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The question in the title might be a silly question. Of course I can write teen fiction; there’s no great and powerful force in the universe preventing me from writing teen fiction (OR IS THERE? Now that’s an idea for a story…), and I’m a firm believer in writing whatever the hell you want to…
L.S. Engler 