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Friday Morning FYI – 2/26/2016

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Welcome to your Friday Morning FYI  – my chance to share observations/wisdom/rants in short, easily consumed form.

A few weeks ago, I FYI’ed about cobwebs. This morning, heading to the coffee shop near the train station, I noticed a massive shadow shifting and swaying under the train bridge. Turns out it was being cast by the same cobweb on which I’d previously reflected, blowing in the bullying morning wind. That leads us to this week’s FYI:

The smallest thing/word/event can cast an enormous shadow. Be mindful and take nothing for granted, but also accept you will not always see how the small things (or what seem to be small things) have huge impacts somewhere down the line.

And to my writer friends, don’t forget this when building your worlds. Not everything needs to be grand and obvious. In fact, the tiny things are often the most interesting.

 

Thanks for reading,

{RDj}

Friday Morning FYI – 2/5/2016

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Welcome to your Friday Morning FYI – my chance to share observations/wisdom/rants in short, easily consumed form.

This week’s FYI is about doing things that scare you (not, like, wrestling a bear or something though; that sh!t’s nuts):

The book on which I’m currently working scares the hell out of me. Not because it’s monster/ghost/vampire scary, but because it’s the first thing I’m writing I feel might be beyond me. The MC is so deep and so damaged, and the themes are so relevant and poignant, I’m terrified I can’t do any of it justice.

And that’s kind of awesome, because only doing things at which you’re already good is boring. Except Snowboarding. And bowling. Either snowboarding or bowling when you’re not proficient mostly sucks. I know.

Anyway, yeah. Do things that scare you. Do things you think you can’t do. At worst, you were right. At best, you’ll surprise yourself.


Thanks for reading,

{RDj}

How bad do we want our good guys?

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Warning: Strong opinions ahead. And it’s long, too. Strap in.

 

I like my good guys good. Complex and conflicted? Cool. Messed-up history and/or in need of redemption? Want. Going through some terrible transformative sh!t that’ll properly mess them up forever? Gimme. But they still need to be good.

Killing defenseless people, even bad guys, isn’t a good guy trait. Read on to find out where this is coming from.

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Round and round, underground

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This little thing popped into my head yesterday, the first half in the afternoon and the second as I shut my eyes in bed last night. I have no idea what it means, refers to, or where it came from (or why the second half wanted those breaks), but, as I’ve done with other inspirations from the ether, I thought I’d toss it up here.

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In and out
Up and down
Back and forth
Round and round
Underground
 
Can’t be found
 
 
Silken wound
 
 
 
Fox and hound (red and brown).
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Hmm. The more I read it, the more is sounds like some creepy clue left by a serial killer. I don’t have plans to write a serial killer book, but maybe now that’ll change. *shrug*

 

Thanks for reading,

{RDj}

Friday Morning FYI – 12/11/2015

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Welcome to your Friday Morning FYI – my chance to share observations/wisdom/rants in short, easily consumed form.

This week’s (long’ish-and-hastily-written-before-a-five-hour-drive) FYI is about daring:

Last week I wrote about a friend launching a book. I provided a few hints about the novel’s contents, and recommended you check it out. What I didn’t note was the book is self-published. I’m bringing that up because it’s important to understand how daring a thing that is – or more accurately, how daring my friend is for doing it the way she did. She hired a team, invested her time and money, and has done (and is doing) everything right to position herself for success. It’s not what I would have done, but while attending her launch event last night, I saw it was the right choice for her at this point in her evolution as a professional writer.

Where am I going with this? Just to note that in a world (profession, industry, sport, etc.) where everyone wants to tell you how things are done, you have to decide for yourself the best way to go. If you forget that, look to the people around you for a reminder.

 

Thanks for reading,

{RDj}