NaNoWriMo

If there is one thing that speaks to my career choice it is that I am helplessly gripped by my passions.  No, I’m not talking about those passions, I mean the kind of passions you hope to find sometime between the day you declare your major and the time you are handed your degree.  I [...]

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Too fast

It was one of those days that that was over before too soon.  Lincoln begged me to play with him all day and I always had something else going on, something that seemed oh-so-important.  We spent a few minutes playing rockets on the swingset and pretending to be explorers in woods behind our house.  We [...]

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Oops.

Yea, so I’ve had a bad case of blog neglect.  I hope the internets don’t hate me now.  Sorry internets, I missed you too.  I’ll make it up to you, somehow, some way!
Don’t worry, I’ve been busy writing and snarking.  Hopefully I imported all of my sarcastic political posts from the past few months correctly [...]

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Terror Tuesdays

I never could have been a weatherman. Not that there is anything wrong with being a meteorologist, mind you, I just don’t know if I could deal with the green screen. Every day, they wave their well-manicured and over-rehearsed hands at a neon green panel of wall and hope the viewers get the [...]

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Promises, promises

I apologize to the entire blogosphere for slacking off this week; I’ve been busy doing other things.  Namely; writing.  The good news is that I will have something to share with you all some time next week.  It’s completely trivial, contains nothing of any consequence, and might scare your children.  But I had fun writing it, [...]

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Biggish news (cue more dramatic music)

Throughout my grade-schools years I was always spilling my guts about my latest crush to anyone who would listen.  School janitor, candy-store lady, random people on the street; they all knew which fourth grader had caught my eye. Needless to say, I didn’t have many girlfriends.  Yup, I keep secrets like a politician keeps promises.
Since [...]

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The first sentence; how important is it?

As a reader, the first sentence of a book has always been the most important one in any book I read.  I’m not the kind of person that will flip to the end of a book to find out what happens to the characters — I like to enjoy the ride the author is taking [...]

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The Honus Wagner of wooden pencils

I have often dreamed of rummaging through boxes of books in my attic. As I open the leaves of an ageless dust-covered tome I imagine a small, crisp piece of paper fluttering to the ground at my feet like a leaf in the wind. As I swoon in the rich smell of the [...]

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Word count for the day and random radio post.

Didn’t write today but it is my day off, so I have no guilt. Total word count currently is 18,434, just shy of 20k words so I guess I’d better get the plot moving along. Thus far I have more plot-holes than chapters. I suppose that means that there will be [...]

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860 words

Just write.
Sometimes it really is that simple. I’ve discovered that not knowing how to do something is not a good enough excuse for not doing it. The only reason I’ve gotten as far as I have in anything I have been successful in, is because I pretended I knew what I was doing [...]

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