A Matter of Perspective
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I am going to do us all a favor and see how long I can go without making a vision pun. Because it is 2020 and the puns have been going strong since July. I do, however, have a lot of things I have been thinking about recently. It’s difficult not to get introspective whenever…
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When you are creating something, you have to teach yourself how to do a lot of things that you probably never expected to need to know. There is a lot more business behind creative endeavors than one might realize at first. I will definitely dig into this later (both here and on my podcast, An…
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sz4YqwH_6D0&t=39s A friend of mine shared this video on his audio drama Discord server earlier this week. At first, I ignored it because sometimes the people on there can be super snarky. Then I started seeing other people responding to the video. So I watched it. And it was a giant kick in the butt.…
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I started getting hooked on podcasts in college. It started with Welcome to Nightvale, then branched into several other shows. I fell in love with the medium as a whole. There is a kind of storytelling that can be achieved through audio that I had never experienced before. I especially fell in love with audio…
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If you think about it, writers are natural born liars. It’s basically our job description. We craft worlds from our words and fill them with living, breathing people who never existed outside of our minds. We imbue them with life and embed pieces of our soul throughout the story. We twist your expectations to fit…
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When you describe something as being ‘on fire’, that can either be really good or really bad. It all depends on the context and the amount of exasperation or sarcasm packed into the sentence. This is especially true when it comes to life. I noticed a few weeks ago that I was constantly referring to…
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There is one question that everyone, at one point or another, gets asked, and it always stumps me. And my answer usually takes more explaining than either party was prepared for. Where do you see yourself in five years? Ten years? X number of years? My first reaction usually involves a momentary brain choke. Some…
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If writers are good at one thing, we are really good at procrastinating when we should be writing. It happens all of the time. I am especially guilty of this. I wrote a story during my junior year of high school and I still have not finished the second draft. I graduated from college in…