Tag: creative writing
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Managing Long-Term Plans and Goals
As a PhD student, an aspiring writer, and a young adult who likes to plan and set goals, January is a bit of a hectic month. As most of us do during the New Year, I set a few goals for 2025. I have also tried to bring goals from last year into the new…
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H.P. Lovecraft’s The Shadow Over Innsmouth is a Lush, Vivid Nightmare
I mentioned in a Spooktober 2023 post and in my Haunting Author Recommendations post earlier this month The Shadow Over Innsmouth is a renowned H.P. Lovecraft tale not to be missed. I abided by that sentiment and read The Shadow Over Innsmouth to get a feel for the truly horrific and disturbing during this month…
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High Fantasy Mastery in Scott Lynch’s Red Seas Under Red Skies
Another Scott Lynch read under my belt with Red Seas Under Red Skies, though it wasn’t so easily accomplished as The Lies of Locke Lamora. That is through no fault of the writing or plot and purely my time management and multiple focuses tearing attention away from my reading. What a read Red Seas Under…
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What Makes A Good Book?
This one I’m going to pose as a question, because what does make a good book? There are the building blocks for good writing, of course, and I’m sure we’ve all seen authors come out with writing guides and books about how they write, or rather how you should write. I love these books, so…