Category: Inspiration
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Inspiration: Neil Gaiman
I have admired Neil Gaiman for a long time, partly because we have similar hair and partly because while he was with Amanda Palmer, they presented as a sucessful artistic power couple that could do anything. Who doesn’t wish to be that? Oh, and he was a pretty good writer too. Gaiman’s works have also…
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Inspiration: Flannery O’Connor
Anyone who has ever taken a Creative Writing course knows the name Flannery O’Connor. She is known for her unique descriptions, gothic style tinged with absurdism, and stories that generally paint unflattering portraits of American life in the south. Ten years after first being introduced to her in undergrad, I read her collection, “A Good…
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The 3 Best Parts of Graphic Novels
I love graphic novels. Comic books are just another one of those nerdy things that have become more mainstream with the expansion of independant publishers and the wider circulation of Manga and Anime. Graphic Novels hit different. The visuals and color tell a story in a way that books and television can’t. The still frames…
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Inspiration: Lord of the Rings
At my core, I am a nerd, and that is something I have slowly embraced as mainstream culture has also slowly embraced us. There are now so many nerds running around, from Star Trek and Star Wars to Harry Potter and Supernatural, not to mention all the anime fandoms, that we have become a part…
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A Year in Retrospect
My blog has been live for a year as of June 16th. It’s exciting. I reached 45 posts before then, and I have proved to myself that I can do this writing, publishing thing. In the past I have had a hard time keeping up with social media and posting consistently. I’m not sure exactly…
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Inspiration: Dixit, the Game
You know how they say a picture is worth a 1000 words? As an amatuer high school writer, I argued regularly with people about which was better: an enchanting image or a thousand beautiful words. As an adult, I have since decided that both are equally bewitching in the right circumstances. For me, an image…
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Time of Gratitude
Every year, I feel like I appreciate the holiday season more and not simply because I work in education and have two weeks off of work. Though that certainly helps. The days from Halloween to New Year’s feel unifying despite (or maybe because of) the endless monotony of capitalistic hallmark music and memorabilia. I enjoy…
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Inspiration: The Name of the Wind
I had put off reading The Kingkiller Chronicles for years: partly because everyone raved about it, partly because there was a million and a half forums discussing it already, and partly because I don’t like reading unfinished series. I had multiple friends recommend it at completely different times, and I always made an excuse to…
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Inspiration: Gideon the Ninth
A recent read that inspired my sci-fi writing was Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir, a book about lesbian necromancers in space. As I read the book, questions kept occuring to me, like ‘why are they using swords in space?’ While most of the questions were eventually answered, this particular one was left with a…
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Inspiration: Martha Wells
Martha Wells recently became one of my favorite authors. She has been publishing books for the past 30 years, mostly covering fantasy and sci-fi, but I didn’t hear about her until the more recent success of Murderbot Diaries. The Murderbot Diaries started as a series of novellas that follow a self-aware SecUnit (android) on a…
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