Category: Personal Reflection
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I have to admit, after years of disappointment in the DC universe live action movies, I was delightfully surprised by this installment in the Justice League film franchise. On par with Robert Pattinson’s Batman, this film serves up lots of great characters portrayed flawlessly by the ensemble cast. It has a noir feel that blends…
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Recently, a close friend’s family hit a patch of unexpected unemployment. She has spent the week in a funk, nervous about paying bills, nervous about making rent. She is a very good friend and I have helped her out in the past. She resents this, however, because she thinks of it as accepting charity I…
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What is your favorite genre of music? I find over the last few years that it helps to make Playlist of music based on the project I am writing. I’ve put together quite a few, and my taste is a bit eccentric. For my current W.I.P. Roadrunner, Check out my playlist on Amazon Music: GlowWormhttps://music.amazon.com/user-playlists/6e4063ab91e5457389927ac1480c0ddbsune?ref=dm_sh_fGEdhGWFkvKUdQpoA568Ovq0y…
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Describe your most memorable vacation. My son was just old enough and finally tall enough. My father and I signed him up for white-water rafting along the Colorado River in the summer of 2018. His father and I had been separated since he was an infant, so to take him on such a beautiful and…
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Most authors giving advice on how to become successful as writers will touch upon the basics of getting on as many social media platforms as you can find and constantly networking. Myself, I admit that I feel ridiculous getting on Twitter or Instagram at least three times a day to beg people to like and…
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Creative minds really seem to upset the status quo. My favorite note from managers or bosses who have fired me is “you are not a team player.” My response has usually been “Nobody on this team is winning and they all resent the team captain for being a idiot and an asshole.” Politicians have no…
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What the cock-smack is happening, all you wiener-slingers who’ve had your meat slapped against a tongue causing you to chuckle confidently and be like heh heh cool, but then it graduates into a light smack with the palms or fingers and you’re like ouch but you don’t say anything because you don’t want to ruin…
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I was 14 when I decided I wanted to write detective fiction. At age 10 I read my first Agatha Christie and by 14 I was up to my eyeballs in Arthur Conan Doyle, Dashiell Hammet, Raymond Chandler, and Jim Thompson dime novels. There was something entrancing about the poetry of noir. Men with shabby…
J.W. Anitole 