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Sentence Fragments Should Be Allowed
I like fragment sentences. Not across the board. Some are bad. But many are good. Their use often helps break up ideas more effectively than their grammatically "correct" alternatives. For example, you can break things up with colons, semi-colons, commas, and dashes. But sometimes the deployment of these devices drags a sentence out ( Read more... ) -
Another Journal
Now I have a second journal oriented towards more frivolous daily diary stuff: youngthales2. youngthales is still my main journal. -
Oscars Music as Speech Ender
The Oscars are over. I didn’t watch them. I caught a portion while my parents were watching. People have complained about how long they were. 4 hours. I agree. That’s long. Yet I saw winner after winner being shooed off the stage. You’d think that with all the rushing of acceptance speeches the Oscars would be shorter ( Read more... ) -
Write More Crappily, Write Crappily More
There was a time when my blogging was more than a repetition of posts about book goals and problems with blogging. Problems blogging and book goals are all I blog about these days. It's a phase. It's all about book plans because right now I don't know if those plans will happen. My mind is always on making them happen. It's all about problems ( Read more... ) -
Monastic Metaphor for Present Events
Present life isn’t terrible. Yet it has been and continues to be pervaded by a muted discontent. The discontent is caused by a desire to be ten years in the future. A desire to be at a time when I don’t need to worry about supporting myself. When there are no competing obligations. When all my time is devoted to experiencing this world and ( Read more... ) -
Practical Advice Sought for Near Future
I need some practical advice for the near future. My goal is to finish a book I’ve been kicking around. There are two ways to get the time to do this. One, the current plan, is living with the parents, working for a year or two, saving everything, then taking two years off to write full time. I did something like this on a smaller scale last year. ( Read more... ) -
Happy New Year!
This is my favorite holiday. Happy New Year's everyone! :) -
Al-Jamadan
Been doing that thing where I habitually refresh the friends page instead of working. After this post (post-post), I'll be LJ abstinent till the New Year. Can I coin a word? Al-Jamadan: the holy month of LJ fasting, or any long period of LJ restraint in general. Al-Jamadan doesn't follow the solar calendar but typically occurs around the first ( Read more... ) -
Busy
I need to screw around on LJ less.
