Odd: adjective. Different from what is usual or expected; strange. Romance: noun. A feeling of excitement and mystery associated with love. Odd Romance: phrase. Undefined. For Valentine’s Day this year, I figured I would do something different: acknowledge it. I don’t celebrate this, nor do I condone its continued existence. Maybe I’d feel otherwise if it weren’t so damn commercialized.
Read moreI’ve been debating whether or not to redo and update this old formatting post of mine. I wrote it four years ago when I started self-publishing and … Adventures in Formatting REDUX.
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With so many teams in all forms of literature and entertainment, it’s sometimes difficult to choose your favorite. Whether it’s a superhero team like the Avengers or X-Men, a group of travelers and adventures like The Fellowship of the Ring in the Lord of the Rings trilogy, or a circle of friends like in…Friends. What can be more daunting for
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We’ve all seen the dumps and left some of our own. Well, some of us have. It gets smeared all over the page, obscuring your intended meanings, making a mess out of an ordinarily clean narrative. I’m speaking, of course, about info-dumping. Every writer and reader has an opinion about this issue. Some deem in necessary in order to build
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Daniel Aegan 