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Living in a Dream World

Posted on October 15, 2011 by

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 →

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Romantic Sex at Dawn

Posted on August 9, 2011 by

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

Posted on July 2, 2011 by

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…

Posted on June 26, 2011 by
This entry is part 3 of 5 in the series Everything I learned from Fandom

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

Posted on June 2, 2011 by

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

Posted on May 31, 2011 by

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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