Category Archives: Personal

We interrupt this blog for a reminder from a veteran

Posted on May 31, 2010 by Jeff

As many of you know, I am a vet­eran. I wore the uni­form of the United States Air Force for six years, and did so proudly. While I was not deployed to Iraq in the first Gulf War, I was active duty and I could have … Con­tinue read­ing →

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Suddenly I see

Posted on May 7, 2010 by Jeff

I had just walked out into the sun­light after watch­ing “Iron Man 2”, which I thor­oughly enjoyed. I was still think­ing about the film, about heroes, about inspi­ra­tion, when I got into my car and turned on the radio. And I heard KT Tun­stall sing, … Con­tinue read­ing →

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In which the blogger peers out from behind the curtain of depression

Posted on April 6, 2010 by Jeff

O HAI. I’ve been gone for a while. I haven’t writ­ten here, or really any any­where else, for about three months. Dur­ing most of that time, I wasn’t sure if I’d ever write again. I’ve been the slap-​bitch of that old dog, depres­sion. … Con­tinue read­ing →

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Thrown

Posted on January 11, 2010 by Jeff

I lost my job last week. Or, to quote Bob­cat Goldth­wait, “well, I didn’t actu­ally lose my job, I mean I know where my job is still. It’s just when I go there, there’s this new guy doing it.” I won’t go into the details, … Con­tinue read­ing →

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The value of every word

Posted on January 4, 2010 by Jeff

I tried so hard And got so far But in the end It doesn’t even mat­ter I had to fall To lose it all But in the end It doesn’t even mat­ter —Linkin Park The 2000s were a hor­ri­ble decade for me, … Con­tinue read­ing →

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Focusing on what’s important

Posted on December 22, 2009 by Jeff

It would seem I’m des­tined to do this writ­ing thing in bursts over time. I don’t know how much I’ll be post­ing here and on the Uni­fi­ca­tion Chron­i­cles blog in the near future, nor how much fic­tion I’ll actu­ally get writ­ten. … Con­tinue read­ing →

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The plan

Posted on December 7, 2009 by Jeff

A big part of this blog, and Writ­ing On Your Palm before it, has always been to doc­u­ment my jour­ney as a writer and serve as either a cau­tion­ary exam­ple or inspi­ra­tion to oth­ers. It occurred to me recently that I have a unique … Con­tinue read­ing →

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I won NaNoWriMo 2009!

Posted on November 25, 2009 by Jeff

50,000 words down, 510,000 words to go…

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Writing for energy

Posted on November 6, 2009 by Jeff

Writ­ing used to be work. When I was younger, when I let myself set low expec­ta­tions, writ­ing was work. I remem­ber when I first started work­ing on Mis­taken Iden­tity, back some­where around 1999 – 2000, I set a word count goal of 250 words a day. I fig­ured that was … Con­tinue read­ing →

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Experience

Posted on November 2, 2009 by Jeff

I shared an arti­cle ear­lier today on Twit­ter and Google Reader about the old adage that you have to write a mil­lion words of junk to get it out of your sys­tem before you can start writ­ing good stuff. I’ve heard … Con­tinue read­ing →

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