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That writing thing.

After the initial panic and rage upon learning that I had to take a four day work week and make do on $600 less a month, I decided that I was going to EMBRACE this opportunity and, you know, write.  Possibly finish the story I wrote in class last year and submit it (probably fruitlessly) [...]

NaNoWriMo Freedom

There’s a certain freedom/liberty to not bothering to sign up for the annual insanity that is NaNoWriMo.  I didn’t even consider it this year, and now I am free from attempting to come up with an idea that will work as a novel, and I’m free of the inevitable guilt that comes from quitting in [...]

Saiyuki

I went through a period after college where I read nothing but translated manga and Terry Pratchett novels until I burned out on it and picked up real books again. I’m picking up manga again, starting with Saiyuki, by Minekura Kazuya.
Saiyuki and I go way back. I first watched the anime in college [...]

The Publishing Part

I have never submitted anything for publication. Mostly this is because I generally write fanfiction which, by its very nature, is unpublishable, but its also because I always assumed my original writing wasn’t ready yet. (this despite the fact that I have more than once wanted to go through a book with an [...]

Endings suck

I finished a story today while I ate breakfast at Atlanta Bread. It was something I’d started months ago – in October, when I was taking a writing class – but had been sitting in a perpetual state of almost-done ever since. I cleaned it up a little shortly before Christmas, intending to [...]