Browsing archives for January, 2010

Alien Voodoo

General 31 January 2010 | 1 Comment

I’ve been around the Internet for quite a few years. During that time I met people that I call my friends even though they live nowhere near me. Well, one of those friends has been in the music scene since before I met him and has been working on his own music for some time now. I’m quite proud to say that [...]

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No. I Mean Really Bad Luck.

Anecdotes 26 January 2010 | 8 Comments

Quite a few things have happened in my life in just the last couple of days. Well, ok. Only one thing. But it’s composed of many little things. I got a new job. I am now a teacher at a high school about an hour away. Great, right? Yep. A dream of mine. I am overly ecstatic and I’m not being sarcastic. However, after I got the job, following are the things that have happened to me: [...]

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Matrix Online: Matthew Corsair

Fiction 16 January 2010 | 0 Comments

Following is a piece of fan fiction I wrote a couple of years back and just recently found again. It was written while I was playing a game called Matrix Online that was based on the Matrix movies. I’m considering using this character for something different since Matrix Online is now defunct and I liked creating the persona. It won’t have anything to do with the Matrix though. So enjoy reading this and let me know what you think of the main character.

I remember when I was a year old [...]

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Some Random Things About Me

Humor 10 January 2010 | 2 Comments

I mentioned that random conversations can be fun. And I’m also currently fishing for comments. So what I’m going to do is list a random number of random things about me. And then what I want you to do is follow up in the comments with your own random number of random things about you. Ready? Here we go: [...]

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Writing Tips: Read.

Advice 7 January 2010 | 6 Comments

“Huh? Read to write?”

Well, yeah. Here are five simple facts about how reading makes your writing better:

  1. Reading increases your vocabulary. That should speak for itself. But if it doesn’t, let me explain. If you increase your vocabulary you can begin to sound like all of those other authors that seem to write with a thesaurus in hand. But that just sounds pompous and arrogant, right? Yes. It can. But when done right, what it does is [...]

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