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Continue reading →: Books I read in 2013
If you’ve seen my reading lists before, you may notice that 2013 is a lot shorter. I spent ’11 and ’12 reading young adult novels, and due to their fast pacing and relative intellectual shallowness (I don’t mean that in a bad way), I could usually finish one in just…
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Continue reading →: Various End-of-the-Year Thoughts on Creativity
LESSONS from a master There’s something about reading a good book that soaks my veins with words and inspires me to write my own stories. This was especially true when I recently finished reading the authorized biography of J.R.R. Tolkien, by Humphrey Carpenter, not only because the book was very…
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Continue reading →: Making changes to a story in progress
Posting to ye ol’ blog has slowed as of late, but don’t worry, I have indeed been writing. After finishing Bent Heart (a short story you can read here), I moved on to the next short story I had outlined. The story and world has progressed well for just over 9,000…
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Continue reading →: Bent Heart: how a short story came about
Earlier this year, while deep in the throes of trying to write a young adult novel, I decided to write a short story. Sometimes you just need to do something that’s small and can be finished. At the same time, I was reading Writer’s Mind, by Richard Cohen. In it he…
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Continue reading →: Escaping Comfort’s Grasp
Faintly through dim shadows came the alarm’s first sound and pulled me from sleep. I stirred and turned, blinking at its bright face. The digital numbers stared back at me; there was no denying it was time to get up. My bed begged to differ, however. “No, no, no,” it…
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