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As both an English teacher and writer, the increased number of challenged or banned books in schools and libraries has me concerned. Looking closely at the trends of which books are being targeted, the motive becomes clear. Books written by black or other minority authors and their experiences, LGBTQ+ and their self-discovery, and young people…
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Why do people write? Why am I a writer? In a world with more ways to publish a book, short story, or poem than ever before, I don’t think a lot of writers ask these questions anymore. Over the course of what I refer to as my “writing career”, which has been just as much…
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Recently, there was a post circling around Reddit written by a man who felt betrayed by his wife for writing a book on her lunch break that earned $100,000. Some have said that this was a fake post, but the number of women who have spoken up on other social media sites, including Reddit, about…
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Recently, I have finished a book in two months and am ahead in my word count for NaNoWriMo all while teaching full-time and finishing grad school. Because of this, a question I keep getting from my students and coworkers is “how do you find the time?” Here’s the deal: I don’t have much time for…
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Since I was a pimple faced teenager, I have been playing the famous, and sometimes infamous, table top game of Dungeons and Dragons. Now, as a pimple faced twenty-seven-year-old, I have more than a decade of playing, both as a DM and a player. While there are many great reasons to play D&D, the one…
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Exactly fifty-three days ago, I began a novel based on a single idea that had been swirling around in my head for some time. Currently, this novel sits at 320 pages with 110,000 words. While it is still very much a work in progress (the editing stages have only just begun for the first part…
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This August I have been trying to compile all the writing I have done for my novels over the past couple of years. What I thought was going to be simply a matter of copying and pasting has turned into a whole scavenger hunt for my work. In order to access it whenever I want,…
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It has been nearly a year since I have posted anything to this blog. With everything that’s happened over the past eighteen months or so and trying to adjust to it has left little room for creative thought. Returning to this blog is not an acknowledgement that things are better now, though in some ways…
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Nearly every morning, I brew a cup of coffee and sit down to write in my journal. Ever since middle school, I have kept a journal to some degree, but one of my resolutions for 2020 was to write in my journal every morning I didn’t have to rush out the door to go somewhere…
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It goes without saying that a lot of terrible things are going on in our country right now. While we cannot turn a blind eye to these things, I think many people are reaching a point of meltdown in their mental power plants because they are trying to take in and process everything all at…
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