Tag: Personal Thoughts

  • ccdevin

    What you’ll learn when starting a blog

    When I first started writing this blog, it was mostly an experiment to see if I could even do it. I wasn’t sure what it involved, or what I would need to know and do until I did it. The inspiration came from a quote I heard that went like ‘Ready, Fire, Aim!’ This little play on words encourages us…

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    ‘I didn’t say it was good, I said I liked it’

    Nuance is something I think the collective society has really lost the ability to accommodate. As an avid reader and literature student, I have encountered dozens of novels and pieces of art that have given me incredibly mixed reactions. There are stories that I think are written objectively well, with clever language and good pacing that makes sense for the…

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    Create a new self: the power of the alter-ego

    How using an alter-ego has transformed my life – and how you can use it too

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    What is ‘art’?

    What a question right? What is art? Can it even be defined? I am no expert art historian nor am I a philosopher, but I am a creative and I am learning to think of myself as an artist too. Over the years that I have been writing my books, it’s been a real challenge for me to think of…

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    How to stop doom-scrolling and get on with your life

    How to be more mindful in your media consumption!

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    Always wanting to do more…

    Last night I was worrying about my to do list, because it was getting longer and longer while my time to do things grew shorter. It was particularly frustrating, because while my list of priorities was growing, my list of things that I wanted to do was getting pushed to the side. So many books that I wanted to read,…

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    Writing Journey: My novel!

    I have been writing my first novel for the last eight or so years, and it is finally getting to the final stages before publishing! It has been an incredibly long journey to get here, and the story has changed almost entirely from my original design, but I love it. I hope to write more about it very soon, both…