random musings
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I have become consumed by my writing. For the most part, this is a good thing. An excellent thing. This is the reason why I quit my job, so that I could once again be infused with the passion of creating that I used to have, that has gotten buried under the minutiae of a…
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“Step by step and the thing is done.” -Charles Atlas. Currently, I’m in quite a state of flux, and I’m not quite used to it, so everything feels a little…off. It still, more than two weeks later, hasn’t quite sunk in that tomorrow doesn’t bring a day filled with obligations and work I don’t love.…
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If you’ve stopped by just now expecting a True Detective post, you have my sincerest apologies, because you won’t find that here. You will, however, find a high five for getting the reference. Me, I could only think of that when I tried to think of what to title this post, which will be little…
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A funny thing happens when you quit your day job and take an impromptu trip to Michigan to crash at your parents’ place for a week. Inspiration, which you’ve been mostly too tired or braindead to truly appreciate, comes rushing back to you like a tidal wave and you want to write all the things.…
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I’ve managed to collect a few interesting things from about the Intrawebz to share with you again. Here’s what I found particularly good these last few weeks: From Thought Catalog: Reading about these Untranslatable Words that Have to do with Love really inspired me to want to make a short story based on each word.…
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One benefit about the last stint in my job was that it required a lot of driving, and a lot of driving means a good amount of talk radio. I’ve always been a fan of NPR, but when I heard a story about the Chicken from Hell, a palentologist discovery of a large bird-like dinosaur,…
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Anyone who knows me well knows that I have difficulty being patient, especially once I’ve decided something and I’m looking forward to do it. The countdown has started for my last days as someone with a “Real Job,” about to embark on being the full-time self-employed writer of my dreams. These next four days feel…
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Funny how time flies. Not so much from having fun in this instance, but from just having too much damn stuff to do. Here we sit, halfway through February already, and I’m boggling on how it felt like just the other day, it was January and I was setting lofty and impressive goals for myself,…
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Well, it’s Monday. For most people, Monday means a return to the grueling grind of daily life, but, for me, Monday is sacred. It’s the one and only day of the week where I can truly dedicate myself to my writing as a career. Very rarely do I have any obligations on a Monday these…
L.S. Engler 