Currently: wondering why my research paper on Japan is getting a steady number of hits every month. Does everyone have a summer research project on the Meiji Restoration, or what?

"Come with me in the twilight of a summer night for a while.
Tell me of a story never ever told in the past."
--"Key of the Twilight"

"I have come to the conclusion that my subjective account of my own motivation is largely mythical on all occasions. I don’t know why I do things."
--J.B.S. Haldane

Advice to remind me, from the unstoppable Mur Lafferty:
"You just have to tell yourself you are going to sit down and you are going to write."
--I Should Be Writing, Episode 91

"You are allowed to suck."
--I Should Be Writing, mantra

Long- and Short-Term Writing Goals:
1). Finish a monologue.
2). Learn how to write on a regular basis.
3). Write a novelette or novella before I finish college
4). Publish a short work of fiction or poetry (in more than a school magazine)
5). Write and publish a successful novel or short story collection

Last Few Books Read:
The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
Sandman Vol. 7: Brief Lives by Neil Gaiman and Co.
Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri

Currently Reading:
Generation Digital: Politics, Commerce, and Childhood in the Age of the Internet by Kathryn C. Montgomery

Last Two Audiobooks/Podiobooks Listened To:
7th Son: Descent by J.C. Hutchins
The Takeover created by Mur Lafferty and Jason Adams

Current Audiobooks/Podiobooks:
The podcast magazine PodCastle
Brave Men Run by Matthew Wayne Zelznick
Lessons from a Geek Fu Master by Mur Lafferty
Heaven Season Five: War by Mur Lafferty

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