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  • The Importance of Writing Consistently

    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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  • 5 Things D&D Taught Me about Writing

    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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  • Two Lessons Learned from Writing a Book in Two Months

    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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  • Making the Most out of Working From Home

    I am one of the fortunate people of the world who has been able to maintain their job by working from home. Working for a school that already had a virtual learning system in place for our students who needed it, we had a smoother transition into working from home than most people. Still, my

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  • When Writers Block Has You in a Strangle Hold

    I have been struggling the past month or so with working through writer’s block. When I was younger, I thought writer’s block was just an excuse people gave themselves for being lazy, but over the past few years, I have had several instances of writer’s block that have taken months and months of productive writing

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  • Tips on Surviving Self-Isolation

    Today marks the beginning of the second week I have been working from home, teaching my classes virtually. Thankfully, the school I work for already had a system of virtual learning in place that we were all trained for because many of our students had different conditions leading them to take classes from the comfort

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