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Category: Telling Stories
When Bad News is Good News
Please note that, despite the timing and the strange headline, this post is not in fact related to April Fool’s Day. Also, please note that I discuss reviews of the first 5,000 words of American Dream On below. I try…
Losing
I’m someone who is fairly accustomed to winning things. Debate rounds, scholarships, jobs, contests. Not NCAA March Madness pools, perhaps, but a lot of other things. Late yesterday, it was announced that I will not be winning the Amazon Breakthrough…
A Fresh Start
I don’t want to talk about healthcare today. Not much, anyway. It’s weird to be in a maelstrom of euphoria that seems so unwarranted and unfounded, touched with a counterpoint of ludicrosity almost as bizarre. It’s a little like the…
The Week That Was (or: How are We in Middle March?)
It’s been a bit of a weird week. It seems a lot of people are discombobulated. In flux. It’s hard to say how much of that revolves around the fact that my life is thoroughly immersed in people who rely…
A New Hope
Two days ago, I was falling apart. Now I’m putting it all back together. In fact, I started writing a post called “Disintegration” around this time on 3 March. All I could get through was a single line. It read:…
Wildly Content
Waking up to a snowstorm, with a tournament ahead and yesterday’s great news behind, I find myself to be wildly content. It may seem like a strange state of being, to feel such a passionate sense of a relatively dispassionate…
American Dream On Advances in ABNA!
About an hour ago, it was announced that American Dream On had bested 80% of its competition in the General Fiction category of the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award and has moved on to the second round. Given that was based…
Snow Days (or: Why New Jersey Isn’t So Bad)
We are living right now under a swirling Nor’easter that reminds me why Emily was able to convince me to move back to the East Coast. My love for snow simply can’t be underestimated. Really can’t. I am just walking…
Inspiration
Rarely do I feel as inspired in my life as when I’m just starting out on a car trip (of almost any length), looking forward to where I’m going, with music blasting. Life is just good under those conditions, but…