Hey, again! Working on chapter 15 of Melancholy Days but needing some time to think, so... why not write another blog post? Looks like it's been awhile anyway. I'm also feeling a bit introspective because the story has come quite a distance. At fourteen chapters and still incomplete, Melancholy Days is now longer than What Separates in

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I recently posted chapter 11 of Melancholy Days and a great comment was left which stirred my thoughts. As I was picking at the different things it brought up in my head, I realized I could probably turn a lot of these thoughts into a nice blog post; the next in my musings on writing. So here we go!

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I've talked quite a bit now about some generalities on the how's and why's of my writing in the first two blog posts, as well as touched on the origins of What Separates and how my style of writing affected how the story developed. Let's continue somewhat

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* Author's note: Somehow I convinced myself to include the editing of this blog post by way of example, so that's what all the red text and strikethroughs are: insertions and deletions. You'll understand what I mean if you read through to the bottom. I deeply apologize if this harms your reading experience! The suggestion for the first read through is to skip strikethroughs and read red, in addition to all the normal text.

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As something a little different, I'll write about writing. Some practice in essay-craft while I'm not immediately engrossed with putting down the next chapter of my current story. Normally this is the kind of thing I write most often; not topic-wise but format-wise. Most frequently I write essays or just collected thoughts, then sometimes poetry and short stories. Longer form stories are actually incredibly rare for me, so I'm kind of amazed I stuck with

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