HeyJaredMonday Mutiny
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Good Fiction Can Do More for You Than Any Number of Self-Help Books. (opens the original)
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Last Friday, as I sat in my preferred spot at the local library (where I like to kill time while I wait for my son’s school day to end), I felt compelled to text one of my good friends a picture of the book that I was reading, knowing that he’s become a rather voracious reader over the last year or two. He responded back with a book recommendation of his own. Both books are works of fiction:Between Two Fires by Christopher Buehlman coming from myself.The Raw Shark Texts by Steven Hall coming fro
The Making . . . and the Taking . . . of Time. (opens the original)
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I spent five of the last seven days sicker than a plague rat — meaning, I had a lot of time to sit around, think, do absolutely nothing, and/or read (I’m currently deep in the soot-covered and foul-mouthed pages of Between Two Fires by Christopher Buehlman). And, as much as I hate being sick, I have to admit, it was nice not feeling like I had to be constantly doing shit (aside from my dad, dog, and domicile duties of course). For the first time, in a looong time, I tried to really allow myself
Disbelief as a Default. (opens the original)
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A while back I wrote/shared the following:Life is fragile yet unforgiving. We break ourselves trying to fix people that we didn’t break. We lose ourselves trying to hold on to things that were never even ours. We abandon our purpose for a paycheck and the promise of a day off. We miss opportunities because we’ve already convinced ourselves that we’re not worthy. But, if we’re lucky, life will offer us a second, maybe even a third or a fourth, chance to refocus and rebuild. And when one of these
Costume parties, custom portraits, and more. (opens the original)
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(1) I turned 40 last week, but I didn’t think too much about it until the day or two before. Birthdays have just never meant that much to me — as far as the celebration is concerned, it’s just another day — so turning the “BIG 4-0” was more evidential than anything else. Physical proof that I survived another year of life. A year that, looking back on, I didn’t believe I would get through at times. There were months on end when I was simply waiting for “it” to end . . .So, for me, there was no e
Just a bunch of life stuff. (opens the original)
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(1) I love movies. Always have. Watching a story unfold through somebody else’s eyes is something that has long been my go-to way of decompressing from the stress of my own life. And, as a kid, watching movies together was one of my favorite things to do with my father (we still watch a movie or two every time I visit home).So, naturally, as a writer, I’ve always wanted to write movies in addition to books. In fact, I think I wanted to write movies before I wanted to write books, but for years,
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