Category: Miscellaneous Musings
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An Exquisite Idea for Creativity
If you’ve been to the movies nowadays, a pattern emerges in the kinds of things that are premiering. Most of the movies are adaptations of comic books, reboots of movies from the 1980s, and cliché schlock that seems to blend all together. Now, reimagining older works isn’t necessarily a bad thing. However, it seems like…
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The Importance of Editing
I’ve recently been reading The Editor’s Companion by Steve Dunham. I haven’t gotten too far into the book, but I’m already learning a lot from it. The book teaches how to edit any form of writing and applies this teaching to a variety of areas. I have a bunch of books like this on my…
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How to Make a Blog
Recently, I’ve been receiving many comments on my blog, and I’m so happy that they are coming through. Whereas before I would check these comments once a week or once every other week, I now have to check them every day. That’s a sign that this blog is growing rapidly. I find the criticism and…
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How to Personalize Your Bookshelves
I spent this week cleaning up my bookshelf, and I have to say: organizing books is hard. It’s not simply because I have a lot of books (though that is a factor). Rather, books are hard to organize in general. This is especially true if you’re a book-lover like myself. Books are portals to other…
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Are Academic Experts Reliable?
Have you ever seen an online post that was so wrong that it makes you feel like you have to respond to it? I’m sure you’ve had that urge if you’ve been on social media long enough. While I don’t have a social media account, I do subscribe to a few newsletters created by authors.…
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Why I Love Writing
What sets the arts apart from other pursuits? Emotional satisfaction? Performance? Aesthetic appreciation? Sure, all of these things are important parts of art, but what truly sets apart an art is that its activity is one done for its own sake. When a painter paints, he does so because the painting is an end in…
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Tsundoku and Good Habits
Note: This article was written on April 1, 2020. No, it wasn’t an April Fool’s joke. Confession: I have tsundoku problem. According to Wikipedia, the bastion of weird information on the Internet, tsundoku is a bit of Japanese slang, a portmanteau formed from the Japanese words “tsude-oku” (meaning “to pile things up to use later”)…