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7 Broadway Soundtracks That Make Me Want to Cry
I love music. I love stories. I love theater. Simple math states: Music+Stories+Theater=Broadway Musicals. Therefore: Broadway Musicals=Happiness. Unfortunately, I do not live in close proximity Broadway (not that I would really want to. I mean… big city=me freaking out. Maybe digging hole or inventing a hovercraft house to escape other humans). Also, I do not…
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Beautiful People- Author Writing Process Edition
Today I’m linking up with Paper Fury’s Beautiful People meme. Usually the questions are about the characters, but this month they are about the author. Which is… Which is me. So prepare yourself for profound insights into my writing life. THE QUESTIONS: 1. How do you decide which project to work on? Ha.…
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4 Actors I Underestimated
Sometimes I watch a movie and I immediately love the actors. Sometimes I watch a movie and…. that doesn’t happen. There are times when I watch a movie I dislike and therefore decide that I don’t like the actors. Whenever I hear about those actors after that I roll my eyes and think, “Oh that…
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My 5 Biggest Writer Pet Peeves (When it Comes to Readers)
As you may have guessed, I am a writer. I suppose it must be pretty obvious from my post on The Writing Process. How else would I be able to describe it so PERFECTLY? There are many challenges a writer faces throughout their writing life. Writer’s block, feelings that your work is garbage, loss of contact…
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A Few of the Best Brothers in Fiction
I’m sure you were all beginning to fear (or, in some cases, hope) that I had been devoured by a giant squid or trampled by a herd of ostriches. But here I am again. And today we will be covering the topic of fictional brotherhood. There’s something about brothers that makes me want to love…
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5 Things People in Movies Can Do (That I Can’t)
Watching movies is something that I greatly enjoy. I have a great love for complex characters and well crafted screenplays. Sometimes I find that I feel a profound connection between myself and the characters. I can relate to them on so many levels…. And then there are the times when I wonder where these people…
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Sandwiches
A good book is like a sandwich. It is made up of many different components. The combinations of such components are practically limitless, but the important thing is that, whatever the combination, the components work together to make a nutritious, well rounded meal. While
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7 Things That Don’t Make Sense in the Harry Potter Movies
So begins a brand new year! A year full of opportunity and potential! A year that allows us to leave behind the mistakes and misfortunes of the past and look to the future! I could write a post all about the new year ahead of us, reflecting on the past and all that. Or I…
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5 Of the Worst Book to Movie Adapations
Any devout book-loving-movie-watching individual knows that thrill of terrible excitement evoked by the words “THEY’RE MAKING A MOVIE.” Joyous discovery! Such possibilities! Such anticipation to see this well loved story brought to the screen! How could you go wrong with such a wonderful story? Ha. As if anyone ever asked THAT question. The truth is,…
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10 Brilliant Books
Books are glorious. Wonderful, brilliant, doorways into other worlds. Other lives. Other minds. There is nothing quite like the effects of reading a well written book. I am terrible at making decisions and awful at picking favorites, so I would like to remind you that these are SOME of my favorites. I don’t actually just…
Trivialities 