random musings
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The New Novel Project is being put into hiatus for the moment; outside of RoW80 and NaNo, all my attentions now are going to be into trying to prep something for some e-publishing experimentation. I’ve been wracking my brain about the potential books I can try to spit out in a whirlwind writing frenzy to…
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Nearly every writer is familiar with William Faulkner’s infamous advice to kill your darlings in writing. In general, it’s never really taken at the face value to mean to kill off your characters, but rather as a way of saying that cutting out some particularly beloved aspect of your writing will ultimately make it a…
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Sometimes, one of the biggest challenges in my life is the fact that I tend to work best on a particular schedule. I have a certain way of doing things, and when that method is disrupted, for whatever reason, it’s sometimes difficult for me to get back on track. Lately, there’s been a lot of…
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A terrible thing has happened today. As I write this, I sit in anticipation as I attempt to fix a very dire and serious problem. For you see, this morning, as I type this, I am currently without coffee. My roommate and I have been doing a lot of cleaning to prepare for some visitors…
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There are some days that I cannot think of what to write in this empty blank space waiting for my fingers to fill it with typed words. There are many posts I have been thinking of doing…another Song That Inspires, or finally that post dedicated to my cats (one of whom is doing a fine…
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It’s happened once; it’s happened twice; it has and will happen many, many more times. One of the greatest things about writing is that, sometimes, it’s not the writer who is even writing the story, but the story itself that seems to be driving the writer and his or her creativity to create some that…
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It’s been a while since I’ve done one of these posts; it’s just been a while since I’ve had a dream vivid enough to want to write about it to save it for use later on. The only thing I can say really inspired this is fairly random; I’m working on organizing my room, which…
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Actually, today will be the complete opposite of a manic Monday, and it will be glorious. One benefit, I suppose, to having retail jobs is that most of the time, you’re working a lot on the weekends and, when it comes to be Monday, when the majority of the world grumps about going back to…
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As I was working on my two large writing projects going on right now, I noticed something. Both of them had gone into heavy dialogue mode. Each has two of the main characters, discussing matters concern the plot, back and forth between each other with maybe a little description thrown in. When this happens (and…
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