random musings
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As of right now, the heroine of the new novel is nameless. Right now, that’s fine, as I’m still crafting the prologue and she’s intentionally kept nameless. However, I’m eventually going to get to the meat of the story, and I’ll have to think up a name, and I’m faintly worried about finding something satisfactory.…
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One of the reviews of one of the books I’m reading right now (follow all that?) praised the main character for being a “feminist ahead of her time,” and that phrase got me thinking a lot. Especially how inaccurate I felt it was and how, in a way, it seems to decide that feminism and…
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Some people who follow this blog and a lot of people who know me in real life know that I set a lot of odd and arbitrary goals for myself to get things done. Often, they’re almost OCD in nature: this has to be done first for this to happen, and if this happens this…
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Someone asked me recently about the type of writing I do. Naturally, this got me thinking about genres. There was a point in time where all I wrote was fantasy and science-fiction, perhaps with a little bit of surrealism mingled in there. Then I went to college, and genre fiction such as that was frowned…
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I’m a little bit behind in the page count for the novel this month, mostly due to forgetting my notebook at work for a few days, but I’m catching up and I have no doubt that I’ll get back on the right foot today. The only problem with it so far, though, is that I…
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Yesterday morning was one of those amazing mornings where every moment just seemed to charge me with inspiration and the beauty of so many simple things, and how the fantasy we search for in fiction can be found, every so often, in moments of every day life. There was, of course, the geese. I work…
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I was thinking that I just might do a post about music and writing. Though I wouldn’t exactly say I’m a knowledgeable expert or anything like that, I do like music and I’m passionate about it and, most importantly, I’m inspired by it. The song that inspired that inspired this post is the Kings of…
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Yesterday was no where near as productive as I had been hoping for, mostly because a four hour shift turned into a thirteen hour one. So that was interesting, but it wrecked hell on my ability to write much in my down time (there was precious little of it and I was so tired besides).…
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Today was another day I was hoping to have another book finished, to write about today, but, once more, my days off of work are deceptive in their ability to be productive for me. Netflix, I’m realizing, is one of the greatest enemies to my freetime (it was Skins, this time, rather than Weeds); the…
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Only eight views today to match January! Come on! We can do it! And, really, if you think about the fact that there are three days less in February, that speaks very highly of the traffic that’s been consistently coming in this month. No, the numbers aren’t high numbers, but it’s something, so thank you…
L.S. Engler 