Blog Number 87: "Please Help Me" Edition

The Catch-22 of writing:

1. Wants to write big, ambitious stories, but doesn't feel confident and ends up abandoning them.*
2. Wants to build up confidence.
3. Wants to write small, manageable stories, but doesn't feel they count as serious attempts at writing.**
4. Wants to write a serious attempt, something big and ambitious.
5. Goes back to step one.

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Blog Number 86: The Holiday Month Edition

Total number of words produced during May: 74,697.

Total number of words produced during June: 50,291.

Total number of words produced during July: 12,666.

That's a serious downgrade. I'm gonna have to up my game this month.

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Blog Number 85: "Didn't Take Long, Did It?" Edition

My first blog post this year set some targets going forward for the rest of the decade (rather optimistically). In light of recent observation, I'm making some corrections, and I will explain why further down this page.

But first, the corrected list, which is as follows:

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Blog Number 84: Better Way To Be Bad Edition

Gladly coming back to nicer subjects now... Recently took a glance at Season Nine (my enthusiasm for it hasn't been high). I've taken some recommendations and picked a few eps of interest. One of them was, of course, "Frenemies".

I like this one. A lot.

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I'm going to make this stupid-simple: if there are among my followers any Nazis or Nazi sympathizers or dystopia-fearing advocates of so-called "absolute free speech", then you're not welcome anywhere near me.

If that's you, then unfollow me right now. I'll instantly block anyone I find doing it anyway. I don't associate with callous bullies and ignorant enablers determined to make the world a shittier place for others.

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Blog Number 82: Marking Transitions Edition

I've always felt that Season Five was unique even compared to the rest of the show. A few things stood out to me, but I'd made no dedicated effort to catalogue all the myriad ways.

Well, this is going to be that effort, because the more you scratch at the surface, the more stuff just leaps out at you.

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Blog Number 81: "Count Your Blessings" Edition

Halfway through the year, and I'm heaving a sigh of relief. I'm not dead, I'm not ill, I've lost no friends or family, I have barely crossed swords with any unpleasant people, I'm sheltered, warm, well-fed, financially decent, and want for nothing to pass the time. I am, frankly, lucky. About time I said thank goodness.

As in, thank the good company I've enjoyed. Here. Personally.

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Blog Number 80: Change of Genre Edition

Queen of Assassins is probably the darkest story I've ever written. Given what I usually write, I feel I should explain that.

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Blog Number 79: "How a Fan Should Behave" Edition

Now, I like to think (but don't necessarily think) I'm a lot of things: open-minded, civil, reasonable without being a perfectionist, amiable, encouraging, a provider of constructive feedback and moderately intelligent insight.

These are principles I want to uphold, because I'd rather make a little slice of Heaven on Earth, so to speak, and that tends to require us being generously disposed to each other.

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Blog Number 78: "Round One Goes To Impossible Numbers!" Edition

Good news first! After a month-long hospital stay, paperhearts has returned to the site, safe and sound!

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