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The Amazing Creative Process
From January 23, 2012 Such an enigma to me, is the creative process. First there's nothing, only pieces, and before you know it there's...

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Travels - Christmas in Biloxi 1-2
PART 1 From December 24, 2011 Trepidation filled me the moment I climbed into that cab at 7 in the morning last Thursday. So far, I had...

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Book Review: Eat, Pray, Love
If you've followed my blog for a while, then you know that I have a lot of respect for Eat, Pray, Love author, Elizabeth Gilbert. The...

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Music that Inspires Me: Rachael Yamagata
From November 8, 2011 So, after careful reflection (and one concert later), I realized that I was quite brief regarding music that...

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Music that Inspires Me: Imogen Heap
From November 4, 2011 If you've ever been around me enough, you'll know that I'm a big music fan and that many types of music inspire...

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Secrets of a Writer 2
From August 24, 2011 It would be awesome to say that writing is all flowing energy with fairies and bunnies whispering inspiration and...

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Project Progress: Switch in Focus
From August 6, 2011 I stated in my last post that I've archived my project "The Last Day" and am now devoted to working on what will...

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Project Progress: Giving in to Temptation
From July 27, 2011 There's nothing better than a continuous flow of pure creativity. I was once told that when an artist creates, its a...

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What to do?
From July 20, 2011 I'm at a crossroads of sorts. Do I turn left and head to where I thought I was going, or turn right and see what...

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Secrets of a Writer 1
From June 21, 2011 With the release of Eyes in Atlantis, I've encountered a lot of responses to me being a writer, like "You wrote a...

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Getting Back to it
From June 12, 2011 So I'm at a Starbucks again. Actually, I'm at a Starbucks in Gas City, Indiana charging my cell phone because I...

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Book Review: The Count of Monte Cristo
Before ever reading Alexandre Dumas' The Count of Monte Cristo, I was enticed by the movie. Yep, the movie. The one that is nothing like...

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Book Review: Congo
"Congo" by Michael Crichton If you've only ever seen the movie (in all of it's pure 90's awesomeness), then you haven't treated...

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The eBook Craze
From April 11, 2011 I've had a lot of questions lately about why I have decided to exclusively publish Eyes in Atlantis in eBook format....

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Making it Happen
From March 3, 2011 From the very beginning of my adventure with Eyes in Atlantis (which is going on seven years), it has been quite the...

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Tico Travels 1-4
PART 1 From February 7, 2011 I have received more inspiration in the last two weeks than I have in the last year. I return from Costa...

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What if?
From January 18, 2011 There's nothing I love more than a good epiphany. As I writer, I've actually acquired an unhealthy dependency on...

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Book Review: Darkly Dreaming Dexter
The TV show Dexter is based off of this first novel in a series by Jeff Lindsay. I was interested in reading this book after becoming an...

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Book Review: The Alchemist
I read this book in a day, for real. The Alchemist is a story about an adolescent boy who, after having reoccurring dreams, decides to...

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Not Living at a Writing Pace
From December 9, 2010 Hi everyone! I've been flying under the radar writing-wise for the past few weeks and it looks like it might be...

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