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  • Subscription Disorganization

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    Or: Aaaaaaaaaah, How Do I Keep Track?   I haven’t come up with a good organizational system to keep updated on the blogs I follow yet. Not that I’m the most organized person on the planet – see last week’s post for the messy system I came up with to keep my notes for my…

  • Death of the Em Dash?

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    Or, Why I Will Never Give Up This Bad Habit Never, never, never, I will not give up the em dash—even though I probably overuse it. Em dashes are not hyphens. They are not used to connect two words, but rather to connect two different thoughts, and they are longer than hyphens. I used one…

  • A Freshman’s Observations on College

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    Revised and Updated with the Wisdom of Attending for Five Years… While cleaning my room, I stumbled across a list of observations I made about college way back in my freshman year. Needless to say, not all of it applies to every college, or every faculty or program, but it was entertaining. So I have…

  • Yes, That Is My Novel Splayed All Over The Walls

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    This is my current workspace: And that is AFTER I spent a couple hours last night organizing my notes. Since I have a lot more free time (in theory) than I do during school, I am trying to get a large chunk of writing completed on my latest novel. I’m posting this pic because I…

  • Fantasy Clichés–Avoided!

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    OR, Not Another Prophecy About ‘The One!’ I just ran across this list of tired, overdone clichés in fantasy novels, and decided to post it up here. Since, after all, I didn’t get a proper post out on Thursday… I was SO surprised to see the fantasy I’ve started posting on this blog doesn’t fall into too…

  • Error – Computer Malfunction – Error…

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    My blog is on hiatus this Thursday due to computer repairs… which is sad, because this is the first time I’ve missed my mid-weekly post. I hope to get the computer back soon! (Apparently bulging caps on the motherboard are not good…)

  • Woman-Haters and the Challenge of Unconquerable Males

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    An Unrepentant Old Bachelor? Never!  A romantic subplot is a necessity for almost every book/film/play whatever, but every once in a while you come across a character that just doesn’t get one. You can’t figure out it when he (I’m going to look at male characters for this post) has a magnetizing personality and women…

  • Staying Up to Watch The Royal Wedding

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    So I did it. I decided to stay up to watch the wedding. My exams are finished and I’m off tomorrow, so I thought, why not? Here’s a running commentary of thoughts (will be updated for as long as I stay awake): 12:56: Oh, goodness, they’re displaying some poor sap readying the balcony for William…

  • Are Americans Obligated to Hate Royalty?

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    Curiosity about American Declarations of Non-Interest in the Royal Wedding I already blogged about the Royal wedding last week, and wasn’t planning on mentioning it again, but these past couple days several articles about why Americans shouldn’t watch it have been plastered across the news sites. They go from declaring, “if you get up at…

  • The Royal Wedding – Will We Abolish the Monarchy?

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    Next week Friday is the day Prince William and Kate Middleton are set to tie the knot, and I’m definitely going to watch. (Exams? What exams?) I never paid much attention to the ups and downs of their eight-year relationship, but I know when they showed up on the front page of our newspaper smiling…