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Category: Random

  • Dissapointment – an IWSG post

    I’m going to try something a little different for IWSG today: Motivation! (Ah! Don’t you close this page. Yes, you. I saw you twitch your finger to go on to a different post. Stop twitching until the post is finished, please. Then you can gripe about how I wasted 10 minutes of your life.) Someone…

  • Words and the Difficulties in Applying Their Meaning in Life

    According to my dictionary: Productive: adjective (1612) 1: having the quality or power of producing especially in abundance 2: effective in bringing about 3a: yielding or furnishing results b: yielding or devoted to the satisfaction of wants or the creation of utilities 4: continuing to be used in the formation of new words or constructions…

  • Procrastination is an Art Form

    There are multiple different types of procrastinators out there – “I’ll get to it.” He/she probably meant that at the exact second s/he said it, but will completely forget about it in roughly 5-10 minutes. My theory is that they subconsciously don’t want to do it and hope the magic fairies will take care of…

  • One of the Reasons I Write is to Make My Life Sound More Interesting

    Take, for example, my first real crime. The first time I did it and got away with it. The lessons I learned and the sordid path it started me down since then. How thievery led to murder. It all started out innocently enough: A toy here, a toy there. Picking up after the kids and…

  • Building Momentum

    I’m slowly tip-toeing back into the writing. I’ll be honest, the constantly looking for excuses to avoid it is irritating, at best.  Possibly because it seems so effortless for some of the bigger names (*cough*Marie Force*cough, cough*). Possibly because when a muse does show up, it is effortless. At least, the first draft is effortless…

  • First Day Of School…

    Yup. The kidlets are out for a whole 5 and 1/2 hours. Yup. I’ve got plans, of course. There’s all these manuscripts bugging me. Things that I WANT to get done. So why is it I’m trying to find something else to do? Daniel has declared he wants to be Jack Skellington for Halloween, which…