Category: Miscellaneous Musings

Ever since I was a small child, I’ve loved fantasy stories. Recently, I started getting into older works of fantasy – A Princess of Mars and Lord of the Rings. Despite these stories having a reputation for being cliché, they came across as fresh and interesting. Why? Because up until that point, I had only…

Judging by this blog, some people might assume that I just write whatever comes to mind. Indeed, as a freelance writer, I’m sometimes hired by others to write what they want. However, I do have standards, and I do have things that I don’t like writing. If there’s one thing that I hate to write,…

With the player’s initiative roll, the battle commences. The brave knights take out their swords and charge at the hobgoblin horde, none expecting to come out alive. The hobgoblins’ attacks are fierce, but they fail their saving throw against the wizard’s fireball spell, and a score of them perish in the blaze. Meanwhile, on the…

Over the years, I’ve written more than a few essays and stories. When you write and study the art of writing, you pick up the kinds of word choices you need to use to improve your writing. You also learn that there are word choices that scream “I’m an amateur” or even “I’m a bad…

Last week, we discussed five things that schools ought to teach. It talked about a lot of great subjects I felt were necessary for kids to become fully-realized individuals. However, while such subjects would help free their minds, some might argue that they aren’t immediately practical and that that is what public education focuses on…

For the past several months, I’ve been tutoring a young man who has been having difficulty in school.  I won’t get into the details, but he’s slowly but surely getting better. However, tutoring him has given me a greater awareness of what schools are teaching kids nowadays, and boy do I disagree with their policies.…

In honor of the coming Christmas holiday, I’ve been listening to an audiobook of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol. It’s probably one of the most famous Christmas stories to ever be written, so I won’t recap the story here. Instead, I’d like to take another look at the moral of the story. Because it’s been…

One cannot underestimate the value of a good education, but what does a good education consist of? Many people would argue that good educations require a good teacher, a nice school, enough money for school supplies and books, and so on. Certainly, I don’t want to deny that all of these things are helpful and…

Halloween is a time of year wherein the dead are closer to the living more than ever before. In the spirit of the holiday, I have written a Halloween story. I hope this tale provides plenty of spooky fun for all my readers. Enjoy! The brush outside creaked like old wood in the wind. The…

Recently, I’ve been getting a lot of comments complimenting me on how well I write and how I inspired them to get into writing themselves. I am heartened by the messages. I started this blog to give me something to work at each week, to sharpen my writing skills, and to perhaps get the attention…