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Happy November! We’re two months deep into the ‘ber months. The start of the ‘ber months brings out a lot of creative energy in people. It’s the rope drop to the holiday season of being together and creating, whether it be decorations or food or memories. September is such a fun month for us. Quite […]

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Again, I find myself writing for a competition and again I find myself a little disappointed. I submitted this piece to The Novelry in hopes of being a finalist. Obviously, all tens of thousands of writers who submitted also had this hope. Because the competition period is over, I am now able to share this […]

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Here’s the thing, really: I didn’t study writing. I see quite often on the medias that I need to study, I need this perfect outline, I need to write a 100-page background story for each character. If I don’t do those things, my work will be, shall we say, stinky. But I don’t believe that’s […]

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Can you feel it in the air? Can you smell the leaves changing before they actually do? Sometimes, my memories of season’s past are so vivid I can smell them, like ghosts of season’s change is lying in wait, ready to welcome me back with an embrace. As we shift into a new season, not […]

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Waiting for something you’re working toward can feel like purgatory. It’s so easy to get stuck in a rut, convinced that nothing will change or that you’ll never reach your goal. A heavy burden often rests on your shoulders, far more often than you’d like to admit. I say frequently, and believe in, romanticizing the […]

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The unknown is scary. Being unsure of what’s to come, if your feet will find solid ground, or if the direction you’re traveling is taking you someplace safe. Oftentimes, we don’t move for fear of what’s to come. It’s impossible to know if it’s better or worse. Impossible to know if it’s right or wrong. […]

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The unknown is scary. Being unsure of what’s to come, if your feet will find solid ground, or if the direction you’re traveling is taking you someplace safe. Oftentimes, we don’t move for fear of what’s to come. It’s impossible to know if it’s better or worse. Impossible to know if it’s right or wrong. […]

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About 9 months ago, our family had one big life change. It’s a word I never imagined would apply to me or to us: divorce. There are a lot of details. A lot of emotions. Too many to really write out in words. Years of a chapter of life finally coming to a close. I […]

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NYC Midnight offers writing competitions in various forms, and I decided I wanted to put my writing to the test and get feedback from judges. So I challenged myself to the Short Story challenge. I had 48 hours to craft a 500 word or less story with a beginning and ending of unknown genre. I […]

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A big flaw of mine is I’m distrustful of the things I hear. I need to read about something myself to believe it, not just take someone’s word for it. I think it can be a good quality to question things, but sometimes it causes issues to be so distrustful of everyone. Either way, if […]

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