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Dead End
Draig-Uisge; Os
May the Wages of the Sword be Kind...
So, my writing has come to a grinding halt. While I continue to harbor this (somewhat delusional) dream of one day being a professional author, I find my motivation to do the work that is involved in writing novels and even short stories has waned to the point of non-existence. It's not that I ( Read more... ) -
Meandering
Ehol; Reithe
May the Wages of the Sword be Kind...
It's been a while since I tried to seriously journal the wild meanderings in my head, the broken trail of profound epiphanies, puerile imaginings and abject insanity that make up my thought process. Even as I begin now, I find myself remembering why I've been avoiding the process: it's exhausting.
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Plowing through
Feoh; Draig-Athar( r )
May the Wages of the Sword be Kind...
Goals are ephemeral things at best. Joining motivation to inspiration is rather like trying to farm for fog or herd cats. I suppose it's hardly to be unexpected that after so many years of lackadaisical efforts, that I should find it so difficult to recover my momentum. My attempts to ( Read more... ) -
Ah...another pointless list
I haven't done one of these in a while, so ( Read more... ) -
Musical Sliver
Every once in a while, a fragment of a song slivers itself into my brain. Sometimes it's a new song (Damn you, Lady Gaga!), but more often than not it's an older song that I pull out of the archives to hear again. Such is the case here ( Read more... ) -
Bittersweet
Tarbh; Ing
May the Wages of the Sword be Kind…
It has been a strange sort of week. In the short span of 7 days, I received my Futhark ring back from repairs (for free!) at the Enchanted Glyph, Rose won free tickets to Stephen Lynch’s concert at the Warner Theatre, I got word my sister officially left her fiancé, Rose’s best ‘friend’ moved into ( Read more... ) -
Lyric Conundrum
Have you ever gotten a set of song lyrics locked in you memory for years, only to discover later that they're not only misquoted, but not even from the same song? For my own part, these lyrics have been stuck in my head for something like fifteen years:
“I'm flyin' high over grape fields, my feathers long and black/one step forward, two steps back ( Read more... )
