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Off-Topic Tuesday: The Business of Writing that Isn’t Writing

"How much farther to Oprah's studio? I've got things I should be doing." A lull in the blog always means a busy week. There aren’t even table scraps in a week like that. There wasn’t even any writing....

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Off-Topic Tuesday: Fire Support

BAMF OTW The internet is probably more in love with acronyms than the military. Worse still, it’s the unnecessary nature of the acronyms that gets under my skin. I understand the need for brevity when...

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Off-Topic Tuesday: Communities for Recluses (A Triptych of Rambling)

“I just think certain things are meant to be done by yourself.” I often advise people that writing is solitary business. That is, of course, based on my own personal experience. When I see a book...

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Off-Topic Tuesday: Altering the Fabric of Reality

Someone should tell the people in their singularity-proof bunkers that it’s OK to come out now… When my wife catches me watching a particularly in-depth show about subatomic particles, or when she...

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Off-Topic Tuesday: Siren Song

Yes, it’s Wednesday, I am aware of this. But I spent Tuesday trying to work while happy. There’s really no better way for me to be unproductive. I don’t write from my “happy place.” There’s rarely much...

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Off-Topic Tuesday: Not Reading Comic Books Makes Superheroes Exciting

So, uhm, that happened. I wasn’t much of a comic book reader growing up. I delved into some G.I. Joe and regularly picked up Akira and a few other Japanese-inspired titles for a little while. But, for...

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Off-Topic Tuesday: Pearls of Wisdom

I’ve mentioned before that I sometimes await the publication of finished articles with some trepidation. (Don’t worry, that hasn’t changed.) But there’s an accompanying excitement that builds,...

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Off-Topic Tuesday: Silence is Electrum

I frequently discuss the strange dichotomy of my writer’s desire to remain undisturbed and my baser human need for socializing. It’s probably because I feel that tug-of-war all of the time, whether...

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The Next Big Thing

All this assumes that the Next Big Thing isn’t just the end of all the things. Everyone prefaces these sorts of things with “I don’t do chain letters BUT . . .” So consider mine prefaced as well. Jeff...

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Using Kanban to Write

Staying focused is a key piece of writing for me. My thoughts and ideas tend to be scattered, both physically and mentally, and it is easy to work on multiple things at once. Multitasking yields...

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Personal Zombie Apocalypse

Zombies aren’t anything special to me, but they’ve gotten quite a bit of PR lately thanks to the resurgence of zombie literature, zombie movies, and zombie games. Several years ago a friend who worked...

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Eternal Rest After the Zombie Run

The zombies didn’t get me. Well, actually they did, but I think I’m just a carrier of the virus rather than a full on zombie. The fact that that I walked off the course with a smile and no limp is, to...

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Please Stand By

What was I saying?  Something about not having nice things, I think… The post Please Stand By appeared first on Broken Binding.

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Off-Topic Tuesday: Embrace the Grind

Sometimes, I feel like having such varied interests works against me when it comes to making a brand out of myself. Also working against me? Not liking the idea of making a brand out of myself. The...

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