random musings
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Sometimes, I have a lot of trouble trying to think of what to write about in this blog if I haven’t got a quote, a finished book, an exciting new project, or a RoW80 update. My mind bounced around a few topics to potentially discuss, the foremost of them being a rumination on the types…
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My breakfast this morning was a cup of coffee (a little milk, a lot of raw sugar) and a slice of cold five-meat (yes, five!), the latter balanced on my knee as I read through a few pages of the current book I’m trying to blow through for my 100 Books project, perched on my…
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Yesterday was one of those days that show up and make me realized exactly how much I want to be a writer. After a long, stressful weekend pushing the sales market, it felt so incredibly fulfilling to just spend a day, working on my craft, writing up a storm, maintaining the housework, and reading through…
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With today being the day Americans celebrate Thanksgiving, and with being American and all that, I figured it would make sense to do a gratitude post today of all the things in my life I’m thankful for. So grab a cup of coffee, a leg of turkey, and settle in, because there’s quite a few…
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A little while ago, I came across a post from a fellow RoWer (I can’t remember for the life of me right now who it was, arrrg!) who posted a few thoughts about the currency system in her novel, which got me thinking about doing some worldbuilding posts of my own, especially since Aryneth has…
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Saturdays always seem to be the days in which I have the most difficulty thinking something to write here in this blog. Sometimes I skip it. I definitely didn’t want to skip it today because I’m a little behind on my word counts; I didn’t get a chance to do much work yesterday; instead of…
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Have you ever had one of those mornings where you wake up, nothing goes quite right, and you almost wonder if you should have never gotten up in the first place? That was my morning, for the most part, which is why you’re getting a post about my irritation with it rather than some long-winded…
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With my first week of my first serious attempt at NaNoWriMo, which was also a week where I easily worked over 40 hours without a day off, I’ve definitely gained some interesting perspective. Despite how busy I was, despite all my other writing challenges, I still managed to plow through and make all my goals.…
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In the wake of the start of NaNoWriMo and the beginning of jamming as many words as I possibly can out onto the paper to make my daily word count, I’ve been thinking a little bit about scene. More specifically, I’ve been thinking about how to describe scenes, and, really, it’s been playing on my…
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I was actually a little bit surprised to find that, last week, I was having a very difficult time trying to think of things to write. I have my list of goals to keep me on track, and even those were feeling a little forced, a trial to really push and get the bare minimum…
L.S. Engler 