Writing as passion vs. hobby; episodes that inspiring me; best and worst writing advice I’ve encountered; selecting a fic that would have worked well on film.
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What are the Extraordinary Form Traditionalists afraid will happen if we have multiple Mass forms — and do they realize that the Latin-Rite (Roman) Catholic Church has almost always had them?
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Discussing a weakness; sharing favorite snippets of prose and dialogue (with the reasons why); and listing which of my fics have (so far) been the hardest and easiest to write.
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It used to be that conservatives understood my positions. But now, they’ve moved right, and that contributes to centrists like me gradually being left out of the discourse altogether.
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I haven’t moved to the right. If it looks like I have on a particular issue, chances are good that I’ve always been there. The liberals, however, have moved to the left.
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I remember the exact moment when I realized everything around me was about to change.
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I had hoped to simply sit NaNoWriMo out for a few years until it got through its growing pains. But it’s become clear that it is no longer an organization that I can support at all.
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Describing my comfort zone; discussing tropes I do and don’t want to write; answering a question about upcoming ideas; and sharing a strength.
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If I had to give a one-sentence evaluation of my writing during August 2024, I think I’d say something along the lines of, “you win some, you lose some.” But it hasn’t been enough to discourage me; rather, it has given me a reason to keep my momentum going.
Estimated Reading Time: 2 Minutes