Tag: writing
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Banal Magic: Changing Gears
This post is thus titled, not because you, dear reader, will see anything here change, but because I am making a change in my own mental gears. (Think of these as internal gears, hidden away in some kind of casing, not the kinds of gears that are out in the open.) You see, my earlier… Read more
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Banal Magic: Tacking Train Tracks
I’m a big fan of metaphors. They help me conceptualise, well, just about everything. They also feel rather nerdy to me (I’m not sure why), and that just tickles me even more. ‘^^ If I can make an extended metaphor, so much the better, but I’ve learnt that even an illogically mixed metaphor can be… 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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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