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The View From Halfway Up/Writing Update
No Bojack Horseman shenanigans to be expected here, in just going to share a little bit of my writer’s journey in finishing my 50,000 word count goal for my first draft. Initially, I was hoping to write a book that would be about this size but, given the scope of what I’m writing about and…
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IKEA
You wake up in your bed. Something feels off. Smells off. No matter, you mind your own and get up to brush your teeth. Your toothbrush isn’t where you left it. No, it has been neatly organized for you in a little compartment beside your sink. You find this odd because you’re the brush-in-cup type…
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Curtain Call, Pablo
Pablo stood on the balconey off center of a vase filled with orchids. Plastic? No, real. Definitely real. Pablo dropped the petal off of the balcony and watched it helicopter down to the world below. The world of perfect, synthetic stone. Flat. Infallible. Give it a couple of years. Pablo looked up and took a…
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Necromancer
I walk home at night on the left side of the street. Always left, never right. I’m actually not sure why this is, but I notice a lot of the time people tend not to be on the left side of the street walking behind me. I can see when someone is coming and prepare…
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The Pills Won’t Help You Now
Larry sat up in his hospital bed. Three treatments thus far had not cured him of his ails. In fact, nothing ever really would. By the looks of things, he would be going in and out of consciousness until the day he died. He was told this way of thinking was pessimistic. He argued it…
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Vowing Doesn’t Help
In case you haven’t heard, people don’t like to follow through with their plans. As Shia Labeouf once said in a historically hilarious video, “Yesterday, you said tomorrow, so JUST DO IT!” The problem is, just doing it doesn’t get it done. Huh? Sure, you can get little things done like cleaning your room in…
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Advice From Writers Who Actually Got Sh*t Done.
Forewarning: This is gonna be a long one… if it doesn’t come bursting out of you in spite of everything, don’t do it. unless it comes unasked out of your heart and your mind and your mouth and your gut, don’t do it. if you have to sit for hours staring at your computer screen…
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Talk To Yourself
For many, talking to yourself is weird. Why the hell would I talk to myself? I’m me and I already know what I’m thinking, duh. Fair enough, but you’re actually really missing out. Talking to yourself has its perks. Because of the constant flow of failures (yes we all have them), we live in a…
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Theories in Writing
Ernest Becker wrote in his book, The Denial of Death, “… [I]n order to turn out a piece of work the author has to exaggerate the emphasis of it… and he gets carried away by his own exaggeration, as his distinctive image is built on it.” Basically, Becker is explaining that with every theory or piece…
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