writing
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February has been a rough month for my productivity. I’m not quite sure what it is; part of me wonders if it’s just the psychological stress of feeling like you have fewer days to shove just as much stuff in, but this month has been a tricky one. Nothing has suffered quite as much as…
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Lately, I’ve been doing a lot of slow (extremely slow) editing of a short story for potential submission to Palooka or potentially others, and I have cut out approximately a page of prose already. It brings to mind the old writing adage to kill your darlings. I’ve definitely slayed many in this piece, and I…
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I’ve been trying to get back into the swing of sending in pieces to literary journals for publication again. After a stream of rejections and a general lack of new material to send, it can be a challenge to just get up the motivation to try to change one of the previously rejected stories and…
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First off, I’d like to backtrack a little bit about “Big Trouble.” The movie version, not the book. I still feel the same about the book, but then I remembered that I have seen the film version, because it’s Zooey Deschanel and Ben Foster playing the teenage characters, Jenny and Matt, both actors I adore…
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As I’ve been trying to get through a few more books to round up my reading for the month, I’m noticing quite prominently what I’ve noticed a little bit in the past, and that is that I have a really bad habit of writing what I read. Sometimes, this extends to themes, but it’s mostly…
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…novel writes you! But seriously, it may not be the most structured or effective way of writing a book, but completely making it up as you go along is definitely fun! I love being swept away by details that seem to just manifest out of no where, how one single word or sentence fragment can…
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I always find it interesting when I start something with no idea where it’s going and then, thanks to the smallest detail, it all falls into place. The novel for January that I thought would be a whole mobster affair now apparently has werewolves. Who’d’ve thought? I’m now really excited to see how this plays…
L.S. Engler 