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Ben Van Dongen
3 years
What's the word for when you miss something that you're kind of glad is over anyway? That's how I'm feeling about The Synthetic Albatross this month.
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Blog Post No. 539 I’m feeling a little disconnected right now. It’s April and for the previous five years in April I had a book come out in the Synthetic Albatross Series. This year I d…
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Ben Van Dongen
3 years
I feel like I should have done a little more planning with the current Novella I'm writing. Which is totally not the way I usually operate.
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Blog Post No. 538 I had to be at the day job early on Sunday. (It was stupidly early). I had been dreading it for weeks as among the rest of the hectic schedule we’d been facing (the day job …
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Ben Van Dongen
3 years
You get a post about writing this week (and routines and my obsession with them). Is it because I'm struggling with my story for the anthology? You can probably figure it out. You're a smart cookie.
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Blog Post No. 537 I was going to title this week’s post A Room of One’s Own, then I looked up the title in Wikipedia. I knew it was the name of an essay by Virginia Wolf, and I knew it …
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Ben Van Dongen
3 years
Why did I have a strange uptick in views and visitors over the last three weeks? Why has it come to an end as suddenly as it began? Could it possibly be something I wrote?
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Blog Post No. 536 Something happened at the end of February that lasted until about a week ago. I don’t want to say it’s unexplainable because I’m sure there is an explanation, ju…
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Ben Van Dongen
3 years
Another post this week about avoiding writing and the random things in my head. There's some good nostalgia in there, though.
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Blog Post No. 532 In an attempt to avoid editing, I was cleaning up my desk the other day and came across an old cassette tape. It was marked “three” in my teenage chicken scratch and h…
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Ben Van Dongen
3 years
I kind of wanted to add something about this week's topic into last week's post, but it didn't fit. It works as it's own post, though!
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Blog Post No. 531 At the end of the 2000s, I spent some time in another city for school. The city in question is a bit larger than the one I’m from, but it’s also fairly close. It takes…
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Ben Van Dongen
3 years
Sometimes things that take effort are worth while. Sometimes simple things are harder than they should be. Sometimes I struggle to find a topic for these posts but land on one that's not my usual thing but that I thing is worth reading.
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Blog Post No. 530 There’s value in keeping in touch with the people who matter in your life. (Value beyond relieving guilt, I mean, though alleviating guilt is a personal win for me every tim…
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Ben Van Dongen
3 years
You've been waiting for it (I'm sure). This week, I look towards next year and make wild predictions that probably have no chance of coming true!
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Blog Post No. 526 Welcome to the end of 2022. As is tradition, I’ll write a nice long post looking back on the year when I get to the year-end of the blog in mid January. This post is all abo…
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