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My dog is going to report me to the ASPCA. The heat of the day wears off into a warm, easy hush. I have an alarm set for it, 7:30 PM, an hour before sunset so I can walk my shag carpet of a dog without worries of him baking beneath his lush fur coat.…
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Sometimes a work of art is done just because you want to move onto other things. So happy birthday to my husband, and congrats to me, on dropping my first novel so I can move on to other projects slightly more in my genre. My debut book? Gay erotica. Someone dies. Herbalism’s involved. So is…
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Fascism relies on despair. Relies on fear, on a misunderstanding and truncating of normal legal process to enforce the unenforcable through individual avoidance of possible consequences. It relies on the idea that those resisting are outnumbered, which is almost always untrue. As the barrage of executive orders roll in from the new fascist administration, we…
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And so here we are. Back after a long hiatus of working on things in the comforting dark of internet obscurity and not sharing. Because it’s none of your business, really, this voyeuristic/narcissistic practice of journaling to the internet for a like or two. But I must, right? I’m a writer, and what’s the point…
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We moved house. Apartment. Whatever. In the process of unpacking right now, and I’ve booted up my computer for the first time in a week to check a packed email inbox and revive my internet presence. My first book is off to beta readers, except for one copy that I moved with just in case…
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This has been on my mind for weeks now, this nonstop frustration over how much time I have to do things that feed my soul. I have a lot of hobbies, and I’ll try out a new one at the drop of a hat. I’ve got several that I’m very interested in, but simply have…
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Today, I woke up at 1:10 PM. Left to my own devices, I consistently sleep until 11. Give me a late night, and we can push that time forward to noon. Not later, though, so seeing the afternoon glaring at me through my phone screen threw me for a loop. It took me an hour…
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Now that the holidays are finally over, I can spend some more time with you here. I took myself down to Pueblo, spent some time with old friends to ring in the new year, and completely forgot about an assignment my life coach gave me until about an hour to midnight: pick a word for…
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Looking at the post history of my blog, it may come as no surprise that the major skill I’ve been developing these past couple months is just. Social media. Communication with the outside world. This isn’t something that comes naturally to me, most accounts I have are abandoned promptly after about a week of activity. …
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I’ve never edited a long piece of writing before. By long, I mean novel length. I can easily churn out a polished 20-page research paper, a 10-page short story, flash fiction, all these smaller pieces have less space in which to pack overarching themes and character information. Every word in my smaller pieces is mindfully…
from the pen of icarus blake 