Category: Writing
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I am a Musician and a Writer
I am a Musician and a Writer. It’s who I am. I work in retail management. It’s what I do for a living but it is not who I am. This is an important distinction that I need to keep clear in my mind at all times. For the sake of the well being of…
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Stuck in the Middle
It’s been awhile since I’ve made a post about my creative writing pursuits and there’s a reason for that: I’m stuck. It’s a very real problem that a lot of writers face when writing a novel. You start with a great idea for a story and maybe even have a killer ending in mind but…
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The Office Comic
Six years ago my friend Matt and I started a web comic called The Office Comic. Over the course of two years and about 150 strips we had a lot of fun with it and got a lot better at it as time went by. After it ended I let the website go offline and…
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Remembering the Important Role of Public Libraries
The following article appeared in the September 30th edition of the Lebanon Daily News. ————————————————————– Pennsylvania’s budget impasse left many libraries without state funding. Frequently, local news programs have featured one library or another telling a sad story about how they have been forced to cut back. Thanks to Benjamin Franklin, we can take pride…
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National Novel Writing Month
November is National Novel Writing Month. Maybe November 12th is a bit late in the month to be mentioning it, but this article kind of got preempted by all the political news last week. National Novel Writing Month is when writers all across the country attempt to write an entire novel in one month. It’s…
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Writing Fiction for Love and Money
I know that to some of my less regular readers, a topic like this one might seem a bit off topic for this blog, however writing is a means by which I would love to someday facilitate my exit from the rat race. I’ve read a couple books on the subject of writing now and…