Category: Randoms & My Life
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The Portuguese Echo
As you may know, I’m currently in Brazil–which means I need to know Portuguese to communicate. The area I’m in (northeast Brazil) has very few people who know English. I tried to learn as much Portuguese as I could before I got here, but it’s been a challenge for sure! At first, when I arrived…
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Things I’ve Learned From Blogging – 6 Months In
Update: If you want to know what I think about blogging 13 years later in 2024, you can read that here. Now that it’s July, I’ve been blogging for six solid months. Time to evaluate if I’ve learned anything. Fiction has always been my writing interest – though I have had a few non-fiction articles…
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3 Things That Scare Me About Travelling to Brazil
In psychology, they tell you that the closer you get to an event, the more your excitement increases – and the more your anxiety increases. In fact, your anxiety rises faster than your excitement. Yes, that’s why they make you buy your plane tickets ahead of time. You can’t back out so easily. Don’t get me wrong,…
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Prolific Vs. Perfectionist – What is the Best Way to a Lasting Writing Career?
Is it better to churn out hundreds of books that are mediocre, or just a couple that are really, really good? A few weeks ago, I mentioned how it is a general rule that writers need to publish around three novels before they establish their name in the industry. This means, of course, that a…
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Strange Flotsam in My Bedroom – A Photo-essay
Cleaning your room can unearth the oddest things you forgot you had. I’m a bit of a packrat – a bad habit – so it was high time to do a deep cleaning and clear some stuff out. It’s a wrench to part with some of these things. In fact, most of these I ended…
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Subscription Disorganization
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…
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A Freshman’s Observations on College
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…
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Yes, That Is My Novel Splayed All Over The Walls
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…
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Error – Computer Malfunction – Error…
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…)
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