Author: 金妮
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Banal Magic: Double Digit Check-In
This is post #10 — we’re now in the double digits, yay! ٩( ^ᴗ^ )۶ This post also happens to coincide with the end of the second month of this blog, so I thought now would be a good time to reflect on how it’s going: Well. . . . ‘^^ Okay, I confess that… Read more
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Zettelkasten
No, it’s not a German pastry. =P It’s something that I first learned about from — you’ll be shocked to hear — reading a book. XD That book was How to Take Smart Notes by Sönke Ahrens. The title alone tells you what the book is about, yeah? ‘^^ Per Ahrens, the key to taking… Read more
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Banal Magic: Creating a Creativity Car
When I’m in a fallow period of my life — that is, when I’m not productive (in the literal, semantic sense of the word: when I’m not producing) — for a prolonged period, either deliberately or accidentally —, I don’t need too many tools to get by (read: to fool other people into thinking I… Read more
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Bookmark: “Big Magic” by Elizabeth Gilbert
Considering my new three Bs, I think it only fitting that my first biweekly (i.e., twice weekly) post be a Bookmark about my own Banal Magic’s starting point: Elizabeth Gilbert’s Big Magic. Oh, and while Gilbert’s book is not a novel with a plot that can be spoiled, I still feel obligated to say, before… Read more
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Three Bs
I have an announcement. Actually, I have three — all starting with the letter b. Bee #1I’m doubling the number of promised posts I’m publishing in a week — from once a week to twice a week, or from just Tuesdays to Tuesdays & Thursdays —, starting this week. That’s twice the amount of rambling… Read more
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Springboard
If you’ve been following along so far, this blog’s focus this entire month has been, well, itself. (We — the royal “we”, ahem — are very meta here at the Stacks. XD) Basically, it’s been a serialized introduction to what this whole blog is about and what it entails. Now here we are, coming to… Read more
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Other Promises I Am Not Making
I told you my biggest non-promise in my previous post, but I have a few others you might want to know before proceeding. I do not promise not to edit previously posted material. In fact, I already have. =P For the most part, I shall try to limit myself to tweaks (fixing typos I missed,… Read more
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Google-y Eyes
In my previous post, I told you what I was promising. In this post, I will tell you what I’m very much not promising. I do not promise not to try to monetize this blog — probably in multiple ways. But I do promise — in the midst of my non-promise XD — to do… Read more
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Pinky Promise
It probably seems foolish to start a blog in 2025. The Internet is full of blogs, after all. According to Wikipedia, “the first blog” appeared in 1992 (though, of course, there were precursors to the form), and blogs exploded in popularity in the 2000s until there were, apparently, an estimated 500 million (that’s a 5… Read more
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Post the First
Hello, world! If you’re here by mistake, welcome! Feel free to stick around and hang out. If you’re not here by mistake, double welcome! I’m honoured and delighted that you’ve deliberately decided to come here to my humble blog. Take your shoes off, have some tea, make yourself comfortable. Seeing as this is the first… Read more