Not related to writing, but very dear to my heart. Please share! I totally support paying artists for their work, but we are talking very small venues here (local bookstores) and events that draw crowds of like less than fifty people. ASCAP: Don\’t kill local music by demanding fees from…
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Some blog posts make me happy. The ones that achieve this most often are those rare ones that offer a glimpse into the writer\’s mind. What she was thinking when writing a particular scene, how she came to invent a certain character, or what gave her the idea for a…
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First off: Happy New Year to all fellow writers out there! May 2015 be a good, productive, creative and successful year for all of us! I spent Christmas and New Year\’s with my family in Germany, and despite my best intentions I didn\’t do anything but eat and sleep. I…
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Just got to your desk, got your coffee but still need an extra boost? Here\’s my \”Feel Good and Get Rocking at Your Desk\” playlist for today. You may take the rocking literally 😀 For those of you who want to try something new, sign up for the 60-day Google…
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So do I. Really. I\’m just … not. Not when I want to be, anyway. Every now and then I end up in situations where my friends almost choke because they thought I was so hilarious. Those situations usually involve some joke I didn\’t understand and thus provoked a ridiculous…
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With everything that is going on in this world and in our lives, it\’s sometimes easy to forget that there are plenty of things we can and should be thankful for. Like First-World problems. Yes, we consider those problems, but think about it: Would you rather deal with famine or the…
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That exact thought flashed through my mind the other day when I was waiting for the metro in D.C. to go home after a night out with some of my girlfriends. I look to the left, and there\’s this guy, and he looked EXACTLY like I picture Nathaniel, one of…
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Happy After-Halloween! I hope you all handed out lots of chocolate and ate a fair amount yourself. With my current doctor-prescribed month of \”avoid EVERYTHING that has soy in any way, shape, or form\”, I did not participate in the snacking … yes, a very sad thing indeed *sigh*. To…
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On September 2, I\’ve started my new job as Knowledge Management/Monitoring & Evaluation Specialist for The Demographic and Health Surveys Program (if you really want to know what I do, shoot me a message :P). Trying to wrap my brain around the myriad of new things that I will have…
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Like many people, I go through each day with the goal to learn something new: a new expression/word, a new fact, the title of a new book. These experiences and -more importantly- how we make use of them shape who we are. In other words: They shape our very own…