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That last month in Fort Lauderdale was a blur, and as quickly as it started it was over. Coming back to Tampa, I feel like my life is restarting after a five year pause. Part of that restart includes my returning to school.
Last night I had a dream, about going back to USF, this [...]

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I’ve been trying to write a new short story lately. I have a great title for it, but the story just isn’t coming. I know what I want to say with it, but therein the problem lies: the complexity of real life is incredibly difficult to achieve in fiction, especially short fiction. Life is so [...]

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[T]ypos will lurk and creep and scuttle on the edges of the text and, despite my best efforts, jump out and wave furiously at everyone as soon as I’m done…
from Neil Gaiman’s Journal.
You know, I should start a “quotes” miniblog or something.
Anyway, I’ve been thinking about what to write. I have the ideas, just not [...]

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Writer’s block. Is there anything more frightening to the would-be writer, the one struggling to get the proverbial “big break”, than writer’s block? Well, I mean other than getting your hands chopped off and losing your ability to write, getting ALS, or getting Alzheimer’s.
You know, that just totally killed this post. Or maybe I [...]

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“I learned that I was right and everyone else was wrong when I was nine. Buck Rogers arrived on the scene that year, and it was instant love. I collected the daily strips, and was madness maddened by them. Friends criticized. Friends made fun. I tore up the Buck Rogers strips. For a month I [...]

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