Studying the Craft
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Characters Over Stories
Sometimes, I think there are projects that I start where I prefer one aspect over the other. I really love creating characters, sketching them and writing some scenes and sometimes not even really writing up a story around them, just… Continue reading
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My Relationship with the Romance Genre: It’s Complicated
I’ve always grown up disliking the romance genre, and it kinda became a habit. I didn’t mind reading romance in other genres, but despised anything where the girl’s focus was that boy—where the first one is usually a prick—and so… Continue reading
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Writing Horror
I haven’t written a lot of horror. I’ve written a lot of horrible things (in quality and content), but it’s mostly about the horror of the situation the character is in, rather than the scare factor. Or maybe that’s “thriller”?… Continue reading
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The Last Day—The Beginning of the Overdue
Today is the last day of the isolation of just over half of our department. It’s the last day I have off that I have to work. Finally. Though I don’t get a full weekend, I’m excited for my work… Continue reading
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Writing Bad Reviews
I’ve always been somewhat of a “pleaser”, it’s a survival instinct really. If you please those around you, you keep the peace, meaning you won’t get abused in any shape or form. And so it’s not particularly a healthy trait.… Continue reading
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Inconvenient Timing
Sometimes, the desire to write, the rush of creativity and ideas, happens when I don’t need it to. Usually during work. I can sit and stare at the screen for hours without any words when I have free time, and… Continue reading
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All you have to do is make stuff up, right?
Some people marvel at the ability of other’s to write, and I didn’t understand that for a while. I have a friend who sometimes can’t wrap his head around writing and how you improve your skills for writing (pertaining to… Continue reading
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Making Time
This week, I want to continue the momentum I’ve been building up, but I also want to try and squeeze some “extracurricular” activities in. I love a lot of things, but I’m not good at many things, and so I… Continue reading
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Success!
Not of the grand kind, just of the weekly targets kind. I went to work, I got writing done, I’m on time with my tasks and I finished reading The Martian. I did it. I did (most) of the things… Continue reading
