the unknown scourge
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Now, I may be jumping the gun a little on this. I might finish up this post, get to work, hit a stride, and the next thing I know it, I’ve cleared the hurdle and everything is going along swimmingly. But, right now, as it stands, I’m pretty sure that The Unknown Scourge simply does…
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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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My brief mini-vacation has come to an end, and while it was enjoyable and productive, it will be nice to attempt to go back to things as usual again. Granted, I still have a friend visiting for the next couple of weeks, but she’s an early riser like I am (actually, she’s Dutch, and she’s…
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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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Welcome to August, everyone! It’s hard to believe that it’s actually August already, but here we are. July was a great month for me, both with A Round of Words in 80 Days and all my usual projects, and I’m hoping August to be even better! The blog itself managed to net over a hundred…
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