Category: Blog
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Childhood Memories
When I was a child, I had a library less than one block from my elementary school. I spent a great majority of my time there. Some of my favorite memories from my childhood were at that library and not on the streets surrounding my house just five blocks away. Some would say I was…
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Building Better Stories
Something I recently discovered thanks to an amazing author, Tasha L. Harrison, is that plotting out story ideas and banking them for later very much helps to keep your mind flowing, and figure out if your ideas are actually good enough to be a story. I’ve been doing a few workshops and researching how to…
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Short Stories Galore
Do you like short stories? I mean stories that are 5,000 words or less? I think people who can get from beginning to end in that short amount of words have some serious talent. I’ve been wanting to dip my toes in this world, but it’s a task. I mean I’m used to writing 70,000…
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Don’t Give Up on Yourself
“It’s better to have tried and failed than to have never failed at all.” People have told me some variation of that for years. I would always get annoyed because I didn’t like failing. I got sick of people telling me it was okay to fail. I would always think ‘No. It’s better to succeed….
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Mental Health is Important
Have you ever taken a moment to really think about what keeps you healthy? You ingest foods that keep your body healthy. You take care of your skin and your hair. You want to look your best at all times. You work years at it. To maintain it. To appear the way you want others…
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How Sensitive is too Sensitive?
The 21st century is both amazing and annoying, balled into one. Mainly because while some things have improved, others are just ridiculous and out of hand. Cancel culture and stuff of that nature go a little too far sometimes. It’s gotten to the point where writers get nervous to write about certain topics. I know…
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How Do You Choose What You Absolutely Will Not Finish(DNF)?
What makes you not finish (DNF) a book? It’s hard for me to do this. It has to be an extreme the author went to in order for me to DNF it. I mean if it’s dated, then certain terms can be ignored or forgiven, even if they bother me. If it’s something relatively new,…
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Check Yourself, Don’t Wreck Yourself
The problem with human nature is that we all want to be good at something, but with that comes the truest problem: When you don’t succeed or do well enough, by your own standards or those of someone else, you tend to compare yourself to others and that can and probably will be your downfall….
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Re-source Your Resource
We all use resources that are presented to us or that we go searching for. Resources are essential in pretty much any aspect of life. You’re trying to get from point A to point C … what do you do if you don’t know what point B is? You find someone who does. You get…
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Sugar, Spice and A Whole Lot of Other Ingredients – That’s Me.
I’m a very all-over-the-place type of person. So let me give you a quick rundown of some of the things that have led me to where I am today. I started out writing poems. Just short pieces about whatever was going through my mind at the time. Then in high school, I had the school…