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A handful of people said they liked the way my last post was written. Comments, chats, tweets, all over the place, but the words were nearly all the same. It’s the power of the free write. Take what is in your mind and bend it, move it, shape it into the things you’re feeling. Good or bad. It hardly makes sense to most people. Some [...]

Just a quick fast-thinking post about Chamber Networking Night. Fun. Productive. I dropped my business card into the hands of a few design places. Will follow up soon for any chance of contract work. Talked. Schmoozed. (I think I’m pretty good at schmoozing if I do say so myself.) I had my lung capacity checked by the hospital people. Doing that test is a lot [...]

I have not been drinking enough water lately. Besides that, I’ve been thinking about what I should do with the creative side of me that’s paying my bills right now, that being web design and front-end development. Today I waffled with, chewed on, and mulled over various directions to move with this. As an individual I want to be protected when I do professional creative [...]

Almost every year I give National Novel Writing Month a shot, and every year I attempt I also never finished. The longest I’ve held out was a week. Maybe 8,000 words. I just write horrifically slow, not to mention I want to edit like crazy. But that is not what NaNoWriMo is about. As the tagline says, it’s thirty days and nights of literary abandon. [...]

I was thinking a little today about how it would feel to be a commercially published writer. Maybe there would be a taste of stardom, fortune, and fame. Maybe it would it make life different. In big ways. Small ways. Maybe the reach, the impact, and all the people in the world with eyes running over my words would be something akin to a town [...]