Reposting from August last year, because it’s been a year now since I lost all four of my grandparents, plus had an uncle diagnosed with pancreatic cancer (he’s since passed away as well). And, IDK, this felt like a timely reminder. My Nana passed away in the night. I wasn’t extremely close to her, so […]
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Phew. Got knocked around a bit last week getting sick, but I guess I shouldn’t really be surprised: it was a ridiculous couple of weeks, what with a grandparent dying, a grandparent getting critically ill, and me suddenly acquiring a mini leadership role at work o.O So yeah. Not especially surprised, really, that as soon
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One of the most commonly asked questions I get in my creative writing classes at school is how to get through middles. People get beginnings and endings intuitively, but the Middle Doldrums is where a lot of new (and not-so-new) writers have trouble. I struggled with middles for years and years, though many novels and
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