random musings
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So, tonight, I wasted too much time on a reddit thread about books you hate with a passion, having come across a few classics that I absolutely adore but I could understand why people weren’t fans. This mostly hit me when I came across Little Women and Anne of Green Gables, two classic staples that…
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Ever have that feeling like you’re all ready to be productive, get stuff done, so you open up your Internet browser, thinking, this is going to be an accomplished day? Then you pull up WordPress, open up a new post, sitting there blank and ready, an open canvas. You poise your fingers eagerly over the…
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“If you can tell stories, create characters, devise incidents, and have sincerity and passion, it doesn’t matter a damn how you write.” –W. Somerset Maugham For someone I’ve never even read, W. Somerset Maugham shows up on my quote pages quite a lot. When I go hunting for quotes or when they just pop up…
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As far as fantasy goes, I’ve always been inspired by Tolkein’s scholarly breadth of detail in his worldbuilding, most notably his dizzying work with creating full, functional, quite honestly breathtaking structures of language. Naturally, this is something I’ve always wanted to weave into my worldbuilding for Aryneth, but, as one would imagine, languages are not…
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““There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.” –Maya Angelou. I am a woman of a million stories, each of them bearing down on me and trying to latch onto my imagination. I love this about myself; I have never truly known writer’s block and there’s always something I can be…
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“Inspiration does exist, but it must find you working.” –Pablo Picasso. Ever notice how you seem to have your best ideas when you’re too busy doing something else? This quote from Pablo Picasso brings that to mind a little, sort of like the quote from Agatha Christie that the “best time for planning a book…
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“Literary popularity was never a paramount object with me, even in my youth; and, now that I am old, I am utterly indifferent to it.” -Lydia Maria Child I cannot honestly say that literary popularity is never a paramount object with me; it’s something I strive for, something I’ve always wanted to cultivate for myself…
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So, this image was posted on reddit the other day with the title “Would you?”: Apparently, that’s La Casa del Árbol in Ecuador. My first, initial thought was “nope, nope, nope!” but as I looked at the picture some more and actually thought about it, I realized how incredibly breathtaking and unbelievable it must feel…
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“I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.” -Douglas Adams. As I did a quick search for Writer Quotes, thinking that it has been far too long since I’ve done one here on the blog, this gem from Douglas Adams was the first to pop up. Now, as an…
L.S. Engler 