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book review

Harry Potter and the Cursed Child: The good, the bad, and the ehh

7:22 PM
Apparently, all was not well. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child elicited many feelings. Some were good, some bad, and some indescribable. So, in short, it was exactly what one would expect with another Harry Potter story. Below is a list of a few major points that went into my overall view of the play. Elements under consideration were characterization, consistency with previous...

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What 'Shadowhunters' Needs to Fix in Season 2

9:59 PM
It's official; Shadowhunters has been renewed for a second season on Freeform! The series has been walking the line its first season with the television equivalent of TV click-bait. Supernatural thriller? Check. Gorgeous, diverse cast? Check. Built-in fanbase? Triple check. But what I believe the creative minds behind the series fail to realize is that The Mortal Instruments series is so much more...

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An Open Letter to My Former High School Music Department

9:14 AM
Dear Brandon High School Music Department, I would like to tell you a story. It begins, as many stories do, with a girl looking to find herself in a new, exciting place. It was her first day of high school and she was understandably terrified. Moving to a larger environment where the unfamiliar faces outnumbered the ones she knew - some of them...

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judgement

Please Don't Ask Me About NaNoWriMo

4:35 PM
If there is one question I detest more than "Halloween's over! Are you excited for Christmas?" it's "Oh, you're a writer? That means you're doing NaNoWriMo, right?" *takes deep, highly exaggerated breath* I am a writer and I hate NaNoWriMo. I know, I know. But before you come at me with mugs full of hot tea and freshly-sharpened pencils, hear me out. It...

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anniversary

Why Twilight's "Reimagining" is Total Bull

7:30 PM
advice

Why Editing is the Best and Worst Part of Writing

11:08 PM
For me, editing has always been an evolving process. When I first started writing fan fiction at age 12, editing was simply looking through a chapter once or maybe twice before I posted it for the whole world to see. After a few years of doing that, I enlisted the help of a beta reader via email who helped take some of the...

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ant-man

Low Expectations = High Results

7:46 PM
I think I've discovered something rather groundbreaking. A new theory, I guess one could say. I wish I could say it was all scientific and that I'm a genius but I - you know what. I will. I totally am scientific and a bonafide genius. Take that, high school math teachers! Who's laughing now?! Ahem. I've been known to have very high expectations...

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announcement

Back from hiatus!

12:41 PM
[image from inthiaano.com] Well, that wasn't really a hiatus, was it? It was more like a long-atus or something equally as scandalous. There are a bunch of reasons I've been inactive for more than a year. One was travelling abroad last summer and starting a travel blog (which I was also quite bad at maintaining... are we sensing a pattern here?) but the...

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