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For the past couple of days, I’ve had some ugly back pains. Pretty much to the point where it’s difficult to sit down at my computer to type for more than thirty minute segments. Yesterday, I spent most of the day in bed with a heating pad, reading “Under the Dome” on my eReader. Since I’ve also had a bad cold, I decided to take a couple Benadryl and get a good night’s sleep. Man, that shit will knock you out. I slept through the night, no problem. Which is nice, since I didn’t sleep at all the night before….

It sometimes amazes me how fast time flies as we get older. When I was in third grade, for example, it seemed like a week was a really long unit of time (especially on weeks where something excited was going on that weekend and I had to wait seemingly forever for it to get here). Summers were an eternity. But now, only 8 days away from my 33rd birthday, time is flying by. I was just getting used to 32! And, by the way, what the hell happened to my twenties?!? :p There is so much I want to accomplish…

When you hear writers in the movies talking about having ‘writer’s block’, they make it sound like some mystical thing they have no control over. I don’t know that I really believe in ‘writer’s block’, exactly. But something is going on with me over the past few days, and I don’t like it! I wouldn’t go so far as to say I am blocked, but stopped up or something? Maybe. I was excited about starting over and getting to work on a new format for my novel, but when I sit down to write, nothing comes out. I have barely…

I have definitely been wanting an ereader for a while now, but I thought it would be a bit before I could really afford to shell out the money for one. Imagine my surprise when I opened a brand new Sony Pocket Edition (PRS-300) from my parents for Christmas! I was super excited! As far as what type of reader I wanted, I couldn’t have asked for a better one. I knew I didn’t really want a Kindle. They are much more proprietary and it’s much more difficult to put your pdf’s and things on there. With the Sony, I…

I have spent the last two years doing what I love to do – writing. Becoming a writer was always a secret dream of mine, even when I was heading toward a career in music. I have always devoured poetry and cherished good books in a multitude of genres from horror to literary fiction. With a few “good” rejections under my belt, a full novel and a novella as well as countless started (but never finished) attempts, I know that I am closer than ever to finding that magic thing in my own writing that leads me to a published…

Well, it’s officially week 2 of the new year. So far, I haven’t lived up to my hopes for 2010, have you? It’s easy to blame the cold I had last week or the terrible back pains, but this morning I feel fine. Okay, so I’m a little bit tired from staying up too late reading Stephen King’s newest book, Under the Dome, last night on my new Sony reader… but that’s not really an excuse. This morning is the beginning of my 2010 in some ways since I was feeling ill most of last week. So what are my…