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  • Why People Hate Mary Sues

    She’s perfect. She always says the right things at the right times, people can’t stop gushing over her, and she never does anything wrong. She makes everybody look bad, but she feels plastic, fake. You’re sure her life is secretly a mess, but she’ll never show it. To her, everything seems easy, effortless. She never…

  • Why The Last Jedi Is So Divisive

    Star Wars: The Last Jedi is remarkably divisive, generating more polarized feedback than any other Star Wars film to date. Discussions have often devolved into shouting matches, shaming the other side for their perceived biases. Photo by Radovan on Unsplash It’s taken me a while to express my thoughts on The Last Jedi. What more…

  • Why Do Things Suffer from “Sequelitis”?

    I recently finished reading The Books of Mortals series by Ted Dekker and Tosca Lee. The series grabbed me right away with its fascinating premise: far in our future, humanity discovers the genes that control human emotions. In the name of creating world peace, one group bio-engineers a virus that infects the entire human race.…

  • When a Loved One Has Cancer

    Update : Added image and Editor’s Note update. Updated formatting to current blog standards. Editor’s Note, 4/26/2024: This particular story does have a happy ending. My grandma beat her cancer and has been living cancer-free ever since. Very few days go by that I don’t thank God for the gift of being able to enjoy…

  • 5 More Things I Love About Being a Writer

    Apologies for the lack of post yesterday! Life stuff shoved the blog totally out of my mind until it was too late to post something. So, Friday update! Oopsies. And more apologies, I won’t have pictures up for a bit here. Sorry! But anyway, here’s five more things I really enjoy about being a writer.…

  • 5 Things I Love About Being a Writer

    Update : Updated formatting to current blog standards. Creating an entirely new world and populating it is hard enough without even getting into crafting satisfying plots and funny dialogue that leaves readers wanting more. Nobody said writing was easy, but for people like me, it sure is rewarding. Here’s just a few of the reasons…

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