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I think even the most devoted Swifities knew that one day Taylor Swift was going to put out an album that truly tested her fandom. But never did I want to have some very strong negative feelings about one of her records, and worst yet, critics and fans alike have already voiced almost my exact…
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I’m on a never-ending quest for turnkey phrases, those magical combinations of words that drive themselves relentlessly towards unique expressions of ideas and memories. Once assembled, they’ll propel themselves forward like an unstoppable freight train, hellbent on smashing writer’s block, becoming my guiding light into the elusive territory of original expression. Every time I think…
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There must be a purpose when you write. It shouldn’t only be the topic that you wish to cover. Some of the best writing that I’ve encountered, whether my own or others, was a product of simply writing for a purpose besides covering one or more specific things. There are so many things that deserve…
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Derived from a draft written originally on February 2, 2011 There is so much absurdity in our world today that I simply can’t process. Numerous mindless amusements continue to propagate across all forms of media, and it seems to me that they only exist to distract us from making any meaningful foray into anything important. …
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Many creatives I’ve met and studied have outlined, sometimes well-practiced and even calculated, creative processes. My methods, or seeming lack thereof, are more like a bizarre brand of madness. The way my brain works, my creativity often latches onto a certain concept, then so much energy goes into analyzing that concept from a high-level philosophical…
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We are all born creative. Creativity is inherently what makes us human. If you solve a problem, you are creative. If you turn your idea into something that you can share with others all the better. Sometimes you feel compelled to create at the worst possible times. But, if you put it off too long…
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Perhaps if the story I tell is too fantastic, no one will believe it. I was always taught as a writer to be able to help the reader along to suspend their disbelief. Honestly, I look at the world around me and see plenty of things I can’t believe are true. Yet they are. I…
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I keep wanting to write a book with Emily but we can’t really agree on what it’s going to involve. My feeling is that if we are going to bother writing a book – if anyone wants to publish a book for that matter – is to first figure out, what is the one major…
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[On this day, I decided to relaunch Obscure Curiosities for the third time, which is its current incarnation!] …There is something that I’ve been bandying about for the past couple years and that’s reviving an old website called Obscure Curiosities, which was essentially wherever I would dump anything that I felt was too niche or…
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My brain has been going nonstop for a couple hours now, reevaluating parts of my life seemingly at random. I keep thinking that I need to create some demarcation line where I just ignore everything I write before a certain point and not even pay it any mind. But I can’t get over that I…