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Category: Randoms & My Life

  • Two Questions for Those Who Wish to “Occupy Wall Street”

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    Occupy Wall Street is scheduled to “sweep” through my city today. Yes, my blog is wading into the seas of current events for a moment. If you’re here to find out about writing and literature, ignore this post. First of all, some questions for the protesters of Occupy Wall Street: 1.) Do you expect the…

  • How to Find the Next Fantasy Novel to Read

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    I’ve blogged before about fantasy novels, and the trouble I’ve had to find more fantasy novels that I enjoy. Which was why I was so excited to see this chart of fantasy (and sci-fi) novels on Slate! It’s easy to follow the options – “Wizard and Barbarians?” “Looking for and Old-fashioned Trilogy?” and even “I’d…

  • Blah Days

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    Five Reasons Today is Blah, and, Is There Any Hope For the Future?  Yes, I get these too. Far too often, probably. I guess I shouldn’t be surprised, after five and a half weeks of excitement in Brazil, that I’d have a blah day once in a while when I got home again. Still, blah…

  • Things You Might Not Have Known About Brazil

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    One last post on Brazil, now that I’ve returned to North America (and experienced a touch of reverse-culture-shock). Here are a few things about Brazil that I found interesting: Brazilians like things very sweet: You may have been able to guess this one, since Brazil is known for growing lots of sugarcane. Still, I was…

  • My Typical Day in Brazil

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    I thought I’d give my faithful readers some idea of my life in a different culture, since some sort of explanation as to why this blog isn’t being updated as often might be nice! I wake up in the morning around 7:30 (thankfully my fellow Canadian, Esther, has an alarm clock, or I’d never know…

  • Possibility of Blog Post Scheduling Interruptions! Oh, the Horror!

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    I mentioned in a previous post that I decided to stay in Brazil three weeks longer. The good news is, that means I like Brazil! (Also, none of the things in 3 Things that Scare Me About Traveling to  Brazil actually was a problem!) The bad news is, I may not be posting as often.…

  • Things You Shouldn’t Do (In Brazil)

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    On Doing Them Anyway Before you go off to a tropical country, people give you all kinds of advice. Advice from doctors on how not to get sick, advice from your parents, advice from other travelers… there’s a load of things you should or shouldn’t do. Of course, half of them you find yourself doing…

  • Half a Million Words of Garbage

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    They say every writer has half a million words of garbage in them, and you need to get most of them out before really establishing a writing career. This makes me glad I started writing early. (My earliest memory of writing is sitting at the kitchen table, asking Mom to spell each word out individually…

  • The Portuguese Echo

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    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…

  • Things I’ve Learned From Blogging – 6 Months In

    Things I’ve Learned From Blogging – 6 Months In

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    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…