Ben Van Dongen
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Here's another post about the new day job and the horrible compulsion I feel to actually do the work.
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Blog Post No. 543 I’ve been working the New Day Job for just over a week, now and I think I finally get what people are on about when they say they struggle to keep work time and non-work tim…
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Change comes in like a whirlwind. It doesn't care how you feel.
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Blog Post No. 542 Before I get into a strangely emotional little post, I want to thank everyone at CKExpo for being so awesome for my first event in three years! Only one person had a rude comment …
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For the first time in YEARS I'm actually going to a convention this weekend. And would you believe it's with Christian?
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Blog Post No. 541 It’s actually happening and as I write this, I don’t know how I feel about it. This Saturday, I’m going to be in Chatham at the CKExpo with Christian for my firs…
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The sun will come out tomorrow. Bet your bottom dollar...
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Blog Post No. 540 I’ve always had a poor sense of my own feelings and emotions in general. I’m starting my post off this way in an attempt to explain why, when I experience something, I…
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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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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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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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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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Have you heard the horror stories of AI coming for all the artists. I have some thoughts about that.
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Blog Post No. 535 Every artist is being told to fear the coming onslaught of artificial intelligence. It’s already an issue with visual artists, especially digital artists. Even with the loom…
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I forgot how much it sucks to be sick. Which is kind of a good thing, except for the being sick part.
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Blog Post No. 534 As you can read in the title, my epic run is over. Thankfully (as far as I know from home testing) I haven’t gotten the dreaded COVID, but late last week, I succumbed to the…
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What's your favourite fast food place? How long have you gone without it?
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Blog Post No. 533 In the coming weeks, I’ll hit a really weird milestone. I don’t remember the exact day (because who would) but it will be three years since I’ve had fast food. I…
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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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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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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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What new music have you been jamming to? Want a few suggestions? Here are three!
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Blog Post No. 530 I’ve written about music a lot on this website. Some of the earliest posts are about music. After ten years of posts, some ideas come around again (hopefully with a new pers…
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Something I already knew but seem to keep needing to rediscover, actually sitting down and working helps alleviate stress.
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Blog Post No. 529 Before I sat down to write this week’s post, I wasn’t 100% sure what I was going to write about. I had a few half-thought-out ideas, but nothing that felt strong enoug…
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Here I go, getting ahead of myself again. But how can I not when there's a potential for a new anthology for this year?
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Blog Post No. 528 I’m not going to lie. The title of this post is a bit of a bait-and-switch. To be completely upfront, there is only one book planned for this year and even it’s only i…
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I've officially been posting weekly for ten years, now. A real milestone worth writing about!
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Blog Post No. 527 Since January of 2013, I’ve written a weekly blog post on this website. (It was the tenth post overall). Ten years is a nice round number and a recognized milestone, so I…
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The opening paragraph of this weeks post is a little more dour than intended. Keep reading, it's not all a bummer.
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Blog Post No. 527 I’m sure everyone has heard or read about how extensively people can acclimate to just about anything. There are people out there living with pain, stress, or other burdens …
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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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