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  • Deadlines, Oh Dear

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    “I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.” Douglas Adams (author of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy) Apparently this is me as well, even with arbitrary deadline I set for myself! In other words – no post on Stories and Stuff last Friday, even though I promised myself…

  • Two Impossible Things to Get in Life

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    “You can’t get a cup of tea big enough, or a book long enough, to suit me.” -C. S. Lewis Don’t you love it when people know you enough to get you something for Christmas that’s just perfect? Here’s something that combines three things I love: C. S. Lewis, tea, and books. Isn’t it a great…

  • The Pleasures of Not Writing

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    “The pleasures of not writing are so great that if you ever start indulging them you will never write again” —John Updike. This quote grabbed me because it is something I’ve been struggling with a lot lately – I’ve managed to keep writing a fair amount, but each step is a momentous struggle of motivation.…

  • Why Worry if You Can’t Spell in English?

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    “Ghoti” – an alternate spelling of the word “fish,” usually attributed without evidence to George Bernard Shaw. Possibly thought up originally by William Ollier Jr. How on earth can “ghoti” be an alternate spelling of the word “fish?” Well, if: gh, is pronounced as /f/ as in tough /tʌf/; o, is pronounced as /ɪ/ as in women /ˈwɪmɪn/; and ti, is pronounced as /ʃ/ as…

  • A Dilemma – A Thought From Betsy Ray (Quotables)

    A Dilemma – A Thought From Betsy Ray (Quotables)

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    I decided my ‘Quotables‘ posts will take over for my fiction posts for a little while – I left off posting ‘Quotables’ a few months back because of school pressures, but they’re back now! Fiction will return when I have something new written to post. 🙂 Today is a quote from Betsy Ray, the protagonist…

  • Tolkien’s Take On True Love

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    Since we’ve been talking about romance, here’s Tolkien’s take on the subject. He actually wrote an astoundingly long letter on the marriage to his son, in typical Tolkien style:  “But…  only the rarest good fortune brings together the man and woman who are really as it were ‘destined’ for one another, and capable of a…