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NaNoWriMo Problem #2
Feeling like you’re living two lives: one inside your story and one in the world. (Bonus problem: the fictional story feels more real.)
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Occupational Hazards
My first National Novel Writing Month and I’m almost to the 8,000 word mark! So far I’ve only faced mild writer’s block, major inkstains, and a few hand cramps, but I supposed I can consider those occupational hazards. :)
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Misquote
” It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it averaged out to be the most mediocre of times.” Wait… that’s not what Charles Dickens wrote? Oops. AP Statistics is not helping my literary skills.
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The Importance of Being Literate
We live in a world of hashtags and texting abbreviations; gleeful laughter has been replaced by “LOL”, “carpe diem” has been killed by “YOLO”, words are being replaced by numbers 4 heaven’s sake! (That was painful, but consider my point made.) It seems I cannot go through one day without being confronted by enough grammatical atrocities to…
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Return to the Garden
What qualifies a book as a classic? This is the question my classmates and I were faced with in English today and I am probably way more emotionally invested in this subject than I should be, but my answer to this question has taken years to discover! And, after all, isn’t most literature…
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Literary Madness: A Dangerous Disease Affecting Readers Everywhere

It’s over. It is finished. No, wait… one more annotation. Now. Now it is finished. But it isn’t! Arghhh!!! I know it is considered bad writing to use numerous exclamation marks, but I suffer from a fever that only excessive use of them can cure! (See, that sentence did not even need one, but my…
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Book Cravings

Have you ever just needed to reread a book? I mean, have you ever just felt so overwhelmed with the real world that you long to escape once more into “fairylands forlorn” with Lucy Pevensie or Bilbo Baggins? Or maybe you prefer dances and romance with Scarlett O’Hara or Elizabeth Bennett? Or perhaps even chilling…
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