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Creative Vision vs. Skill
There’s nothing like reading to make you realize a few things. What’s good is subjective to individual readers. This means that you are simultaneously a creative genius and master of prose, and a complete hack who has no business being published. (i.e. some readers will hate you, some will love you) While the mechanics of writing can be learned, passion…
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Micrite 3D All Use Eye Cream #BeautyofMom
No, this isn’t a SPAM post. Every so often I try real products that I write honest reviews for. Sometimes I pay for those products and other times they’re given to me for my honest review. This product is the latter. I was given this product for free in exchange for an honest review. I love eye cream. As I…
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Tracking Reading – What We Learn
Last year I finally decided I was going to make a concerted effort to actually track the books I read. Not only to see how much I was reading, but what I was reading. So around the end of April last year I started to track using Goodreads. After the first year was over I realized that while I missed…
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The Great Office Purge 2016
It’s that time again folks! The Great Office Purge 2016 is about to begin. Those of you who know me know the drill. Once every two to three years, whether it needs it or not, the office is purged. As I get older I realize why Grandma Connolly always discouraged gifts that collected dust, because quite frankly – at some…
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business of writing, fun, life, Magick, S. Connolly, Sephira Alchemy, social networking, the writing life
Troll-Baiting: Critics, Haters, and Death Threats
Being a public person isn’t always easy. From pretending everything is great all the time, to watching everything you say lest you be attacked for your alleged political agenda, sometimes you just can’t win in the eyes of public opinion. Especially when it comes to critics and haters, and even trolls. A few weeks back my friend and assistant Frank,…
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The Alternative to Capitalism is Still Work #reality
Work or die. I was reading an article about Millennials today that blames capitalism for how a lot of modern kids don’t want to work. The article went on to say that a lot of these young people aren’t lazy – they simply dream of a world that isn’t so fixated on capitalism because they don’t think they should have…
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A Malkuth of Me, Anne O'Connell, Audrey Brice, life, Magick, rites of passage, S. Connolly, S. J. Reisner, Spirituality, the writing life
Called To A Creative Life – Manifesting Your Will
One of my earliest memories is of sitting on the couch with my mom as she read me a book. I was only four, but the memory is so vivid that I’m pretty sure that was the exact moment I fell in love with reading. By the time I was eight, when my nose wasn’t in a book, I was…
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My Crazy Cross-Genre Life
This past weekend I attended a friend’s birthday party, at which I met a wonderful couple who were readers. The standard questions came up like “What have you written?” and “Where can I find your books?” Luckily I had bookmarks with me and it turned out I had a series for each of them to try based on their interests…
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My Favorite Writing Advice
1. Write. A lot. 2. Read. A lot. 3. Finish what you write. 4. Edit what you write. 5. If it doesn’t make you laugh, cry, get angry, or feel emotion – it won’t make the reader do any of those things. 6. Read it aloud. Edit accordingly. 7. When rejected, go back to the drawing board and try again.…
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New Moon Enchantments
Several of my friends have brought up tonight’s new moon. It’s a special one. It’s a Super New “Black Moon”. Sounds impressive, right? Really the whole “Super” thing just means it’s close to the earth, and the “Black Moon” thing because it’s the third new moon between the Winter Solstice and the Spring Equinox. Who names this stuff? Anyway – magickally…