Author: Alex Diaz-Granados
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Musings & Thoughts for Sunday, October 29, 2023, or: Weekend Update, Part the Second (The Anxious Blogger Edition)
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in Alex Diaz-Granados, Amazon, Computer and Video Games, Creative Writing, Depression, Kindle, Kindle Create (Publishing App), Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP), Life in Florida, MicroProse Software, Personal Thoughts, Regiments (2022), Regiments: Iron Curtain, Reunion Duology, Reunion: A Story, Reunion: CodaMidday/Early Afternoon, Sunday, October 29, 2023, Lithia, Florida Hi, everyone. How’s your Sunday going? I sincerely hope you’re having (or, depending on where you live, have had) an enjoyable last Sunday of October 2023. As for me, I’m okay, I suppose. I’m still feeling tired from the sleepless night of October 27-28 – insomnia sucks…
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Musings & Thoughts for Saturday, October 28, 2023, or: Weekend Update, Part the First (Insomniac’s Edition)
Afternoon, Saturday, October 28, 2023, Lithia, Florida “It must be October, the trees are falling away and showing their true colors.” ― Charmaine J Forde Hi, folks. It’s almost mid-afternoon here in the Tampa Bay area on this, the last Saturday of October 2023. It’s sunny and warm (85°F/29°C) outside; I just stepped back inside…
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Musings & Thoughts for Thursday, October 26, 2023, or: Memories of Octobers Past…and Finding My ‘Epistolary’ Voice in Chapter 12
Late Morning, Thursday, October 26, 2023, Lithia, Florida Hi, there, folks. Well, here we are on a somewhat sunny and cool (78°F/26°C) – for the subtropical zone, at least – October morning in the Tampa Bay area. It looks like it’s going to be a nice day; the forecast calls for mostly sunny skies and…
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More of My Top Fives: A (Hopefully) Self-Explanatory Set of Five ‘Favorites’ Lists
More of My Top Fives: A (Hopefully) Self-Explanatory Set of Five ‘Favorites’ Lists For my friend Patti Aliventi. Music Albums – Movie Soundtracks Music Albums – Classical Music Albums – Pop/Rock Music Albums – Jazz/Standards Music Albums – Miscellaneous
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On Writing & Storytelling: Well, It Looks as Though ‘Epistolary’ Style Might Work After All….
Late Morning, Tuesday, October 24, 2023, Lithia, Florida Hi, all. I hope you are doing well on this next-to-last Tuesday in October. I have a lot of stuff to do today, some of it related to the novel, and some of it not, so this post is going to be brief. Yesterday afternoon I started…
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On Writing & Storytelling: Love by Emails – My First Attempt at Writing an Epistolary Chapter
Hi, again, my friends. I am chiming in to let you know that despite my apprehension about trying to write an epistolary chapter, I (figuratively) gritted my teeth and decided to give it a go anyway before committing to writing Chapter 12 in the same way I’ve written the previous eleven chapters. I figured, “Well,…
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Musings & Thoughts for Monday, October 23, 2023, or: A TBR Update, and My Writer’s Journey Resumes – with a Change in the Itinerary
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Late Morning, Monday, October 23, 2023, Lithia, Florida Hi, there, folks. As I write this, it’s just past 9:15 AM on a cool October Monday. Outside, the temperature is 66°F/19°C under sunny skies. With the wind blowing from the northeast at 5 MPH/KMH and humidity at 80%, the feels-like temperature is 72°F/23°C. Today’s forecast calls…
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On Writing & Storytelling: Starting a Story from the Middle (an Excerpt from ‘Reunion: A Story’)
An Excerpt from Reunion: A Story In 1987, 11 years before I decided to write my first complete work of fiction, I took a Creative Writing course (CRW-2001, I believe it was) at what was then called Miami-Dade Community College, South Campus. As I recall, late in the semester, we students were asked to write…
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Tempus Fugit: I Wish You’d Known My Mom (A Tribute)
Late Morning/Midday, Saturday, October 21, 2023, Lithia, Florida Hi, there, folks. If you’re a regular visitor to this space, you might recall that my late mother would have been 95 years old on Tuesday, October 17. As it is, she’s been gone for over eight years; she died less than three months before her 87th…
