I find it vaguely embarrassing that I have an epic fantasy series that requires a detailed character list. Not just to keep myself straight, but to unconfuse confused readers. I hate these things, because I feel like your characters should all be fleshed out enough that nobody gets them confused, even if you’ve got a […]
I’ve upped my evening workout times from 30 minutes to 60 minutes, and will soon be moving from 3-4 days to 4-5 days (next week, when the new health & wellness program starts at work). The good news is, I have more energy when I get home, so I’m not collapsing into bed at 9,
Work and Workout: the Good, the Bad, the Just So Read More »
When I was twelve or thirteen, I started getting these prescient dreams. I’d start dreaming about things that ended up happening a couple of weeks later. Not big things, but certain situations, events. I’d dream in snapshots. They weren’t terribly useful sorts of dreams, because how can you prevent or prepare for the arrangement of
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i am running into a new yearand the old years blow backlike a windthat i catch in my hairlike strong fingers likeall my old promises andit will be hard to let goof what i said to myselfabout myselfwhen i was sixteen and twentysix and thirtysixeven thirtysix buti am running into a new yearand i beg
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Nyx put her hands on the edge of the well and looked down. The water was glassy black; she stared at her darker half, gazing up at her from the bottom of the well. There was nothing but water and her reflection and the stir of the water around the rope. The rope. She reached
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“90% of achieving anything is about not quitting.” That is, 90% of accomplishing anything is taken up in keeping ourselves from quitting, fighting through the urge to quit, convincing ourselves not to quit, distracting ourselves from quitting, not giving in to excuses for quitting, and convincing ourselves we still want to continue. 10% is the
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