random musings
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Maybe it was finishing up The Best American Short Stories 2008 recently, but yesterday, while bogged down with incredibly dreary weather, a slow day at one job and a long meeting at the other, I noticed a lot of the little, bizarre, quirky, and just plain strange things around me that made for great inspiration…
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On my way home from work yesterday, I got a call from my roommate, who had news so exciting, it couldn’t wait the ten minutes it usually takes for me to travel from point A to point B, and shortly after I arrived, we went out to one of our favorite restaurants to celebrate her…
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This morning, I was suffering a little bit of dilemma in my uncertainly whether or not to post the blog today. Clearly, the answer to that particular conundrum turned up positive for the posting, especially since I realized that the indecisiveness itself was a worthy topic for my mindset. You see, today is one of…
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This morning, something very exciting and momentous occurred. I unplugged my laptop from its previous spot in the living room downstairs, marched up three flights of stairs into our new second floor apartment, and set it down in the table in our bright kitchen, sunlight pouring in through the wide windows, and did all my…
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As I stand on the precipice of the great cliff of my handful of upcoming writing challenges, I’ve been thinking an awful lot about inspiration lately. Mostly on how I haven’t got much of it (at the moment) and how I know that often changes, but what exactly changes that? What happens to cause inspiration…
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It feels so strange to be writing a regular post rather than one for RoW80 on a Sunday, but I’ll give it a whirl, anyway, especially since I missed a post twice this week, if I remember correctly. The weekend in general had been an odd one for me. Not only did I fail to…
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I have spent far too much time this morning trying to decide what to write in this little space today. I wondered if it was just me, if I was just feeling uninspired this morning, but I realized, after a bit more consideration, that it’s mostly just the usual weekend rut. Working retail, my schedule…
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Since it’s the last few days of A Round of Words in 80 Days, most of my writing focus is going to be staunchly on getting to the big POV switch in Serpent in a Cage, but, of course, since I’m trying to focus on something, my mind is wandering a little toward other things…
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Hooray! I’ve received an award! Thanks to the ever-lovely Em (whose blog I never get a chance to read nearly as much as I should like to!) for presenting me with the fun Versatile Blogger award! You like me! You really, really like me! The rules of this award are as follows: Anyone who accepts…
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Dear readers, I am positively beat. But I am far from being defeated yet. I am having one of those days where I am painstakingly trying to think of something to write about in this blog space and realizing that all I really want to write is my fiction which, unfortunately, I do not post…
L.S. Engler 