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Writing in My Modern Age
Between the ages of 12 (see the last post) and around 27 I wrote sporadically. One year I would fill several notebooks (back then I couldn’t type a story, the keyboard was way too distracting) and other years I would do nothing but perhaps think about writing after I read a good book or saw
Read MoreWriting-In the Beginning
Stories have always been at the core of my life. I love reading them, I love watching them, when I was I kid I loved replaying them with my friends again and again and again. I’m pretty sure we had more imagination in six girls under the age of eight than Hollywood has today. I
Read MoreUglies
By Scott Westerfeld Synopsis: (hijacked from Goodreads) Everybody gets to be supermodel gorgeous. What could be wrong with that? Tally is about to turn sixteen, and she can’t wait. Not for her license — for turning pretty. In Tally’s world, your sixteenth birthday brings an operation that turns you from a repellent ugly into a
Read MoreThe Beginning of my Kung Fu
The other day my mind wandered down a path I hadn’t seen in a while. The question of why I started training in Kempo stood at the end of the path, and I had to metaphorically cock my head to one side and narrow my eyes as I thought about it. Why did I start taking a
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