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Tag Archives: A Year of Living Bloggily
On the Blog as We Know It Coming to an End
Today is the final day in the year-long experiment that was titled, naturally, A Year of Living Bloggily. I’ll start off with a song I recently fell in love with. It reminds me of my friend Jason (he once gave … Continue reading
Posted in Living, Writing
Tagged A Year of Living Bloggily, Blogging Blogs, The National, Writing
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On Discouragement (with bits of whimsy)
I write about this because I’m not in a discouraging mood at the moment (either a danger to myself or others). Sure, I’ve been procrastinating on writing today, playing games instead, and dreading the moment that my fingers touch the … Continue reading
On What I Dearly Wanted This Blog to Be But Did Not Know It
This is what I wanted my blog to be: Go ahead and click on it. There you will find awesomeness. Be sure to also check out the two About pages as they will enlighten you beyond all enlightenhood. I am … Continue reading
Posted in Reading, Writing
Tagged A Year of Living Bloggily, Allie Brosh, Blogging Blogs, Hyperbole and a Half, Writing
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On the Importance of an Agent Loving What You Love
Namely, that thing you’ve written that you call a novel. That is a novel. By all accounts and records, by all measurements and tests, that collection of words broken up into chapters that has a definite beginning and a definite … Continue reading
On Finishing What One Started Oh So Long Ago
I’ve been using the Write 1 Sub 1 challenge in a few different ways. At first, it helped drag a few flash fiction pieces out of me for a magazine that solicited me. Then it served as a bolster to … Continue reading
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Tagged A Year of Living Bloggily, Linguistic Experiments: Fiction, Writing
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Shortcut #54: Ghost Hunters
Having loved The Poisoner’s Handbook, I made it my mission to seek out other books by Deborah Blum and read them. I know you weren’t expecting that. I bet you expected me to say eat them or enshrine them or … Continue reading
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Tagged A Year of Living Bloggily, Experimental Reviews, Experiments Ocular, Shortcut, What I'm Reading
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Literary Warfare: Lake Effect
If I wasn’t in volume 15 of Lake Effect, I probably never would’ve picked it up to read. I will admit it: I’m a sucker for appearance. Those journals that have matte covers or are objects of art in themselves … Continue reading
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Tagged A Year of Living Bloggily, Lake Effect, Literary Warfare, What I'm Reading
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On the Benefits of Writing Groups
Or: How I Wish I Could’ve Come Up With a Snazzier Title But this post isn’t really about entertainment, but functionality. What does a writing group do for you? What is it doing for me? How is it different from … Continue reading
Shortcut #53: The Hunger Games
I am highly controversial. No, wait. I am highly contrary. Part of the reason I never took a class with a certain professor in grad school is because everyone I talked to effused with praise for him. And it’s not … Continue reading
On What is Broken Cannot Be Mended
I am writing this to you from the void. My blog is broken through my own efforts, but mine own efforts cannot fix the problem (namely because I’m not such a techie and the blog and all requisite files are … Continue reading