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2017 Reading List
So, I– Muse: Where the hell have you been? Briefly, I’ve been busy. Muse: Yeah, well, you should have called. You know, I did write three short stories since I was last here and knock out several chapters in my novel-in-progress. It’s not like I have been sitting on my ass, popping grapes in…
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Finding Time to Write
So this is a new challenge for me. My wife works nights, I work days (I work nights too, often, and we both work weekends), but there was always a reliable half-dozen hours a week where I was home alone on a given evening, and bored out of my mind. From this idle time…
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NaNoWriMo and Self-Publishing
If you’re a writer—or connected in some way to the writer scene—then you’re probably aware that November is NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month). A time where pen-monkeys of all ages and skill levels come out of the woodwork to try and churn out 50,000 words in a single, marathon-month of word-smithery. As you might…
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A Truly Democratic Election
After this week’s unfortunate incident, by which I mean the election of He Whose Hands Must Not Be Mentioned, I’ve had enough of American politics. The war in Eastern Ukraine hasn’t been in the news much in the past couple years. It’s turned into a frozen conflict—a stalemate between two rebel enclaves and a…





