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On Tuesday Thoughts- Tuesday Thoughts

Tuesdays are for thoughts, but you know this because you read Tuesday Thoughts.

It always comes as a surprise what content is the most popular with my audience. For example a lot more of you click on the Friday Videos than actually read or do the Promptcast stories, and while I personally think that the Scifi Prompts are better, more people do the fantasy prompts. Looking back- my Misunderstood Writing Advice posts used to be the most popular despite the fact that my videos…

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Automatic- A Scifi Promtcast Story

Outside the sky grew red. People were pointing, screaming. A thousand stars fell from above at once.

Hey all! This story comes from the Asteroid Apocalypse Prompt in the Scifi Promptcast! I hope you’ll like it because I’ve been working on this story for months! Truth is, this is still a bit first draft-y because of my schedule, I’ve actually written Brent’s story in various forms since March, so I’m glad to have finally had the chance to put it behind me. Do the prompt, share your story, and…

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Snek Luv All Around- Weekend Video 6

The WEEKEND VIDEO is HEERE And it's all about snake love

So I’ve had a massively complicated weekend. First getting out of work was a doozy, but I tried (and failed) to pull an all nighter to complete the Friday video on time.

Of course that didn’t happen and I am now wayy behind schedule.

That said the video IS HERE down below, with links to everything worth looking at ever in your life. I’ll see you On Monday with a new prompt and a new story!!

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Obligatory Innkeeper Scenes- a Fantasy Promptcast Story

For a moment he thought of her red hair, its silky feeling as he thumbed through it. Their servitude to the Master was going to end eventually

This story comes to you out of the bowels of this week’s possibly racist sounding Fantasy Promptcast: Snake People. I don’t know what was going through my head, but I guess people need to work on their fantasy species or something. I will apologize that a family emergency made this post so late. This means it’s a really rough first draft, so feel free to bash it in repeatedly with a critique…

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On Doing it for the Money- Tuesday Thoughts

Do what you love, and let it pay you.

So I think quite often about money. In fact I secretly have a YouTube Channel all about it.

And this may be a taboo subject in the writing world because money for many of us is the root of all evil- the one thing we ought not to consider. “Never write for the money,” they say, “Write from the heart, write for you, write to grow.”

Well.. It’s hard not to write for the money when you have an…

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The Shining and more- What I'm Reading This Week

Changes are coming, but at least I'll be updating my reading lists...

If you remember I used to have a page called What I’m Reading Today.

This page was great but it didn’t allow a lot of traffic and it didn’t leave room for interaction. I also only updated it as frequently as I eat poutine.

So I’ll have things this way from now on. This will be an informal hopefully weekly post about what I’m reading and will be coupled with a video review of what I’ve…

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On Being- Tuesday Thoughts

Thinking is difficult when you haven't been shown how to do it on any day besides Tuesday. #tuesdaythoughts

Oh what I would give to be the kind of man who throws himself at a task and stops at nothing until he has met his goals.

What I would give to stand up each day and ignore the distractions that I subscribe to, the torturous boredom of a thousand creative minds injected into a medium of waste and mediocrity. Yet I fall into those ranks, and consume the inedible.

If I could be that man, that…

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All Part of a Complete Breakfast- Promptcast Story

They said he'd have to go and do it himself. Well, that's not the way Jack lives; he makes things come to him.

This story follows the Teleportation Prompt from the scifi promptcast. You can watch the video below, and if you do the prompt or write a story, share it and you could be in the Friday video!!

Jack tapped away at his keyboard as the simulation worked its magic. There was no reason for it, the keyboard was unplugged, but his…

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