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What I Learned From My Everyday Blogging Journey

No, I didn’t fully make it. I only made 23 posts out of 31 days in January. And I think some of the 23 posts are completely crap fillers :oops:. But the experience helped me to be more aware of...

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Giving Me the Permission To Read

I know it sounded silly, I mean, I LOVE to read. It is my hobby. And as I writer I could even categorize it under research. BUT lately I haven’t been able to do it. I get a somehow guilty feeling when...

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Musing Around

I haven’t really thought of my muse. Why? Maybe I was too practical before? Although admittedly I babble with myself every time I got some ideas in my head… hopefully that didn’t put me in the cuckoo...

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Persistence, Writing, and Sports

One of my challenges in writing novels is to keep the persistence and motivation up. There are days when I just didn’t feel like doing it, or when I feel like I’m hitting a wall of “forever doomed...

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Articles on Writing

Compilation of links and things I found interesting in a world of writing, publishing, and general inspiration. Ten rules for writing fiction, part one. Authors’ personal dos and don’ts of writing. As...

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Loving a Character

Some people reads a book because of the setting, some reads because of the action, and some reads because of the characters are compelling. My love for a book usually has a lot to do with my love with...

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Choosing to be a Full Time Writer

I’ve seen a lot of articles out there, saying that you shouldn’t give up your day job to be a writer because most writer will never make enough money to live. Well, if what you want is a huge paycheck,...

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Afraid to Do. Inflicting Pain on My Characters. – Day 9

The Prompt: Afraid to Do by Mary Jaksch The other terror that scares us from self-trust is our consistency; a reverence for our past act or word, because the eyes of others have no other data for...

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Enthusiasm. How Do I Get It Back? – Day 22

The Prompt: Enthusiasm by Mars Dorian Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string. – Ralph Waldo Emerson “Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.” is a great line from Emerson....

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The Spark Blogfest: Who Set You Off?

I saw this blogfest a couple of days ago when I was browsing through my fellow campaigners’ blogs. I thought, “What a great idea!” And then I go and do something else forgot about it. Of course....

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