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Musings & Thoughts for Sunday, November 5, 2023, or: Music to Enjoy a Lazy Autumn Sunday By….
Early Afternoon, Sunday, November 5, 2023, Lithia, Florida Hi, everyone, and welcome to the first Daylight Savings Time Sunday post in A Certain Point of View, Too for 2023. Like millions of people throughout the world, I am not fond of the “Fall Back, Spring Forward” changing of the clocks thing. It usually throws my…
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Musings & Thoughts for Friday, November 3, 2023, or Memories, Melancholy, and Writing Plans for the Day
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in Alex Diaz-Granados, Amazon, Cheryl T, Coral Estates Park (Miami-area Neighborhood), Coral Park Elementary School, Creative Writing, Kindle, Kindle Create (Publishing App), Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP), Life in South Florida, Personal Thoughts, Reunion Duology, Reunion: A Story, Reunion: Coda, Things I MissLate Morning, Friday, November 3, 2023, Late Morning, Lithia, Florida Hi, everyone. I hope you are faring well on this first Friday of November 2023. It is a cool late fall day here in the Tampa Bay area; the temperature is 68°F/21°C under sunny conditions. That’s “chilly” by Florida standards, of course. Where I’m heading…
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Musings & Thoughts for Tuesday, October 31, 2023, or: Ramblings of a Sleep-Deprived Novelist
Late Morning/Midday, Tuesday, October 31, 2023, Lithia, Florida Hi, everyone. I hope you are having/have had a good day on this, the last day of October 2023 and, in the U.S. and other countries, Halloween. Here, it is a pleasant autumn-in-the-subtropics day; as I write this, the temperature outside is 80°F/27°C under sunny conditions, but…
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Musings & Thoughts for Monday, October 30, 2023, or: Starting the Week on an Anxious Note
Late Morning, Monday, October 30, 2023, Lithia, Florida Hi, everyone. I hope all of you who read A Certain Point of View, Too had a nice weekend, and that your Monday – whether it’s a back-to-work, back-to-school, or just a first-day-of-the-new-week day for you – has been good to you so far. Here, it’s a…
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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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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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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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Musings & Thoughts for Friday, October 20, 2023, or: A Quick Life Update
Midday, Friday, October 20, 2023, Lithia, Florida Hi, there! Welcome to another Friday edition of A Certain Point of View, Too. It’s a warm autumn day here in the Tampa Bay area. As I write this, the temperature is 80°F/26°C under sunny conditions. We’re still experiencing chilly morning temperatures after the passage of a strong…
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On Writing & Storytelling: Epistolary, or Narrative? I’m Still Undecided….
Late Morning, Friday, October 13, 2023, Lithia, Florida Hi, everyone, and welcome to another edition of A Certain Point of View, Too. I hope you are all well on this last day of the workweek – and that you’re not superstitious, considering that today is – at least on this side of the International Dateline…
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