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Living in a Dream World
I believe that people who tell you that you are living in a dream world are often living their own dreams of mediocrity. Continue reading
Romantic Sex at Dawn
That’s why I think Sex at Dawn is a very romantic book: it allows for people to be open about their sexual needs with themselves, with their lovers and partners, and society at large. I think that kind of honesty and trust is ten times more romantic than owning someone for life. Continue reading
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Word Count wrap-up: June
What month. My goal was a modest 2k words a day, which I never hit even once. My average, in fact, stands at 721 words per day. The 10th through the 19th, I never wrote a single word. Continue reading
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Fandom is not a master class…and yet…
No, the value in writing fanfic for fandom isn’t that it hones writer’s skills to a sharpened blade, but that it actually gets writers to write… Continue reading
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The Value of Minimums
This isn’t about logic on either side of the coin. It’s about holding oneself to impossible standards vs. driving into the abyss of hopeless despair. Working on my word count issues (i.e. how many words I write a day on my original fiction stories) brought me a new realization, though: something is better than nothing. Continue reading
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Word Count Wrap-Up: May
It’s the end of the month, so I get to look at my totals. Joy. *head!desk* I wrote 30,705 words over six stories (four novels, two short stories), with an average of 990 words a day. Continue reading
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