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Continue reading →: Fri-ku for 18 July 2025I regularly write poetry. Haiku is a favourite form. I’m familiar with the essential rules: And I’m aware, at least, of the detailed ones, though I’m not necessarily strict about following them if I don’t want to. I’m also aware that if you skip out on the rule about nature,…
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Continue reading →: Theme UpdateJuly’s theme is running better than June’s did, although to be fair to myself, a Choose Your Own Adventure type story involves a lot more planning than just a simple outline or even detailed plot. That said, I can’t exactly say that songwriting is easy even if I have made…
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Continue reading →: My Average Writing DayAverage day? I don’t know why I want to try to think in those terms. While I do keep track of averages, there isn’t necessarily a true average writing day. Every day is just a little different. It’s summertime, which as a grad student means I get to confine my…
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Continue reading →: The TRQShort for To Read Queue, a holdover term from pre-web message echo days. Once upon a time, I worked in the book industry. For a bibliophile, this seems like a dream. Spend your days surrounded by books, helping people find the books they need, and making sure all the bookshelves…
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Continue reading →: Theme For July: The Songs of Summer
As I suggested in the original post, way back in January, I have written the odd song here and there over the years, but I’m going to try a little songwriting focus for this month and see if I can average two per week. That gives a little space in…
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Continue reading →: June Writing Summary
An even shorter summary than I wrote for May, but then the word count is substantially smaller due to various external events (academic conference, family stuff, convocation, and so on), but I want to get back to the updates as a regular thing 9,769 words with a mere 580 of…
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Continue reading →: ConvocationAt last. This is backdated to the actual day of, along with a couple of others I forgot to schedule in the run up to convocation and stuff going on ahead of it. And it’s still going to be a short post. You can read a limited amount about my…
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Continue reading →: A New Golden Age of TelevisionOr it should be. Warning: rant ahead. I’m extremely frustrated with the current television experience. As someone who generally wants to be told new stories (where new means something I haven’t seen before) the proliferation of streaming services, paid and free, and the mining of things that are still inside…
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Continue reading →: Will You Survive?
This post was originally supposed to happen last week. Life gets in the way sometimes. And continuing under the label of “was supposed to”, the theme for June was supposed to have been “Will You Survive?” The idea was to write a Choose Your Own Adventure story in the classic…
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Continue reading →: National Flash Fiction Day
Saturday was, apparently, National Flash Fiction Day, at least according to the website. Working definitions appear to be either a maximum of 300 or 500 words for flash fiction and a 100-word maximum for micro. (See, definitions vary. I like the more usual, but hardly universal, definition of 1000 words…
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