Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Evolution
This blog was born as a writing blog, but going forward I am going to broaden the concept to include whatever the heck I feel like writing about. After all… 280 Characters? I made a post at Bobspora that had more than 5K characters! 🙂 So yeah. I’ve had a few ideas bopping around in…
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Progress
Or perhaps it’s not much more than attention. Which, to be fair, is probably a big deal at this point, from the blog’s perspective. Although I doubt my blog has thoughts of its own. =P
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TvTropes
Warning up front: TvTropes can make you lose hours – if not days – of your life. To quote from the front page: Tropes are devices and conventions that a writer can reasonably rely on as being present in the audience members’ minds and expectations. […] The wiki is called “TV Tropes” because TV is…
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Decision Made!
As I posted about previously, I lost more than two months of productive work due to a ridiculous migraine. When it went away it was like being reborn… with a full in-tray. Over the past ten days I have done a boatload of proof-reading and editing (95% on my own stuff, but I also did…
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My First Guest Speaking Event
I had to take two and a half months off due to a migraine, so this story isn’t fresh, but I wanted to tell it. My youngest started a creative writing club at her junior high school. That all by itself makes me proud fit to burst! She loves to write and she likes to…
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Nathan Weaver Killed Me
Fictionally! I’m not posting from beyond the grave! Nathan Weaver is a friend of mine who is also an author. He’s taken on a project to try to actually make some money as a writer (which I can understand!) in which he will write a short story or flash fiction for five dollars in which…
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Long Time No See
My goodness, it’s been ten months since I wrote a post for my blog! 2014 wasn’t a good year for me. Not because of things that happened that year, it just sort of… worked out that way. At first I was waiting to feel better – I have fibromyalgia and chronic myofacial pain syndrome. Then…
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Letter from Ko
The Spell Builders was meant to be a short story, just the facts, tell don’t show. But I was having trouble finding my narrator’s voice. Finally I thought to ask her to write me a letter, telling me about herself. The following 612 words changed the whole project. The Spell Builders turned out to be…
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Listening to Characters
I swear, I never sound crazier than when I’m talking about characters. So let me say that I don’t really believe my characters have an independent existence. It’s a metaphor. So let the crazy begin.
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Life as a NaNo Rebel
I chose to do NaNoWriMo a bit differently this time around. I felt a little funny being a NaNo Rebel, after a few years of pumping out a full first draft in a month. You see, NaNoWriMo started something a couple years back for writers who couldn’t quite wait a whole year to do it…
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