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This may be uncomfortable…
Loss can be a hard and painful thing to talk about, not only for the person going through it, but also for the people listening. Take my most recent experience. I broke my ankle. When I told a few friends, some simply disappeared. They didn’t check in and plans we had made were never rescheduled.…
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Starting Again
I’m still figuring out how to become consistent with writing again. I don’t think my way back is going to come from forcing myself to suddenly write thousands of words every day or pretending the last several years didn’t affect me. It will probably happen much more quietly. One paragraph. One scene. One conversation between…
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The Stories Never Really Left
The strange thing is, I don’t think I ever completely stopped being a writer. The stories kept appearing. Characters still walked into my head at inconvenient times. Scenes played out while I was doing something completely unrelated. I would hear pieces of dialogue or suddenly know something about a character I hadn’t thought about in…
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Am I a writer?
For a long time, writing was one of the easiest places for me to disappear into. I could sit down with an idea, meet a character, build a world, and suddenly hours were gone. Writing wasn’t simply something I did. It was part of who I was. Which makes it difficult to admit that I’ve…
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Dark days – poem
The darkest days. Where loneliness surrounds me. Have walked in the shadows since a child. Waiting for a hero to come and save the day. But days have passed. Storms have come and gone. And my feelings remain the same. A loneliness that nothing can fill. I see blue skies ahead. I must walk this…
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Two big moves in one life.
Moving across the country from North Carolina to California was taxing but exciting at the same time. A lot went into it. The first thing we did was to find a place to live. Thankfully I was able to fly out and look around the area beforehand. The place we rented we did so, sight…
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How to write a book and all that goes with it.
Time, effort, research, and staring at a blank page, all of these are part of the writing process. When I started writing my first book, The Legend of Zelkova: Elementum, I didn’t know what I was doing. All I knew was that I was having fun. But as time went on and I wrote more…
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My mutant gene.
Over two years ago I found out that I had a gene mutation (MTHFR C677T 2 copies) after I received a letter in the mail from a lab informing me. It also told me to inform my family because it can run in families and is passed down from parents to child. Finding out that…