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The Five Stages Of Writing (or I Feel Your Pain)

Like dealing with grief, writing also has five stages. STAGE ONE – Caffeination Most writing begins with some sort of stimulant. Much writing is done late at night because writers are so easily distracted during the day and fail to

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Posted in Blog, Word Nerd

Trolls and Challenges (or No Post Today)

No post today because I wasted invested all of my allotted blogging time on this story on my other blog. Please go and check it out and I’ll be back tomorrow. Also, sorry about making you click through the extra

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Posted in 3(Blah) + 3(Yada) = (Blog), Announcements, Blog, Tell me another story

What Did You Expect? (or I Couldn’t Think of a Better Title)

Just a note because I said I was going to blog every day, so if I do this now it counts as a post, and you can’t stop me! What was I saying? Oh yeah. I just wanted to let

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In A Subjunctive Mood (or Long Live The Drama Queen)

So I’ve decided I’m going to try to post something every day. Well, every weekday. Why? I don’t know; it seemed like a good idea at the time. I probably wouldn’t if I were the kind of person who thought

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Posted in Best Of Verbatim Gibberish, Blog, DPchallenge, Word Nerd

Crickets (Halloween Flash Fiction)

I posted a piece of horror flash fiction on my other blog for Halloween. I hope you enjoy it.

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Posted in Blog, Tell me another story

Using Colorful Language (or Did You See What I Did There?)

Language isn’t always black and white. Indeed, some maroon can leave you red in the face with his linguistic abuses. Maybe a trip to Magenta would help get you back in the pink. Or maybe Burnt Orange Tailgating is more

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Posted in Blog, DPchallenge, Just nerding out

Do You Mind? (or Listen To The Words That Are Coming Out Of My Mouth)

Modern Etiquette for the Socially Challenged Part Three How many times in your life have you had this conversation?  Do you mind if I sit here? Yes. Yes, I can; or yes, you mind? I have to know; why is

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Posted in Blog, Whine Tasting

I Must Be A Hipster (or How To Write A Good Blog)

Only really cool people like you read this blog. At least that’s what I tell myself. Every now and then, I’ll be reading someone else’s blog and they’ll let us peek behind the curtain and see how many views or

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Posted in Best Of Verbatim Gibberish, Blog, Things I know less about than I think

Challenge Accepted (or WTF WordPress)

Ugh!. Now I think they’re trying to spite me. WordPress has Freshly Pressed themselves about how to get Freshly Pressed. SO meta…http://dailypost.wordpress.com/2012/09/27/what-makes-a-post-freshly-press-able-bacon-in-a-toaster/ And if you still don’t know what I’m talking about http://en.support.wordpress.com/freshly-pressed/ Photo courtesy of freedigitalphotos.net

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Posted in Announcements, Blog, I'm Just Saying, Whine Tasting

This Post Has Everything (or Go On, I Dare You)

So I figure the secret to a successful blog is getting people to read it. Okay, that might seem obvious, but bear with me for a moment. Now, the best way to get people to read your blog is either

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Posted in Announcements, Be Crafty, Best Of Verbatim Gibberish, Blog, I'm Just Saying, Insidious Inspiration, Whine Tasting

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