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And For My Next Trick…
I posted my fifth story and I really must say… Wow, that looks… Truly mediocre. Lovable characters? No. No characters, in fact. Highly researched? 20 minutes spent Googling doesn’t count, I suspect. Interesting MacGuffin? If you’ve taken set theory, and have any interest in astronomy, then… Still no. Thought-provoking? Depends on the thoughts! I’ll leave…
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Writing as Food
Everybody wants to write a fancy steak dinner. It’s true. We want to write that rarest of works; popular with every reader, beloved of (most) critics, well-recognized as the pinnacle of the writing craft. The Great American Novel, the Pulitzer Prize winning work of journalism, etc., etc., etc. Unsurprisingly, most of us are not meant…
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Self Confidence
In order to be a writer, you have to hold two equally powerful and mutually exclusive ideas in your mind simultaneously: I am the greatest writer ever and Everything I write is absolutely riddled with flaws. If you don’t believe the latter, your editing process will be completely ineffective. If you don’t believe the former,…
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Progress
Four stories now, two of them recently written. Actually five, but one of them is currently set to Private as I’m not sure it’s ready yet. It has the bones of a good story, but perhaps lacks some flesh. I haven’t worked to get the word out just yet. The site is so… PLAIN.
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Oh, the Glorious Frustration of Learning Something New
WordPress is seriously eating my lunch. More to the point, stealing my lunch money, punching me in the face, slamming my head into a locker, and then eating my lunch in front of me. But…! I will prevail. I only have two stories written, but I’m going to go ahead and launch the site. May…
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