Tag: Reading
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Rainy Day Musings: Finding Solace in Modest Literary Victories
Midday/Early Afternoon, Saturday, May 3, 2025, Miami, Florida “You have to celebrate the small wins as well.” ― Robin S. Baker Hi, everyone. It’s a gray, sometimes rainy day here in the Greater Miami area on this first Saturday in May 2025. Currently, the temperature is 81°F (27°C) under rainy conditions. With humidity at 66%…
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Late Night Reflections: Writing After Dark
Night, Sunday, April 27, 2025, Miami, Florida If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. It’s almost 10 PM here as I write this, the second blog post on this last Sunday of April 2025. I rarely do this so late; I may have done it a few times when I lived in Tampa,…
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Sunday Musings from a Somewhat Groggy Blogger/Novelist
Midday, Sunday, April 27, 2025, Miami, Florida It’s not quite noon in my corner of South Florida as I write this, but I’m not the world’s fastest typist, so it’ll be early afternoon by the time I post this on WordPress. Currently, the temperature is 83°F (28 °C) under sunny conditions. With humidity at 58%…
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‘Reunion: Coda’ Update: My Hardcover Edition Arrived! Mission Accomplished!
Night, Friday, April 18, 2025, Miami, Florida “Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read.” ― Groucho Marx, The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx I’m delighted to share that Amazon delivered the package with the hardcover edition of Reunion: Coda…
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Waiting for My Copy of ‘Reunion: Coda’ – and Thinking of a Promise Kept
Late Afternoon, Thursday, April 17, 2025, Miami, Florida Well, two years and eight days after I began working on what I briefly called “The New Story” in another writing room in another part of Florida, I can now say that tomorrow I will hold a hardcover edition of Reunion: Coda in my hands. For me,…
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From Manuscript to Print: ‘Reunion: Coda’ Released…and I Get My Hardcover on Friday
Evening, Wednesday, April 16, 2025, Miami, Florida It’s incredible to think that just a year ago, I was finishing up Chapter 14 of Reunion: Coda, eagerly anticipating an Autumn 2024 release of my debut novel. Despite my hopes, I had a sneaky suspicion that a more realistic publication date could be December 2024. Back then,…
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Dear Reader, Let Me Tell You a Story…About Finally Becoming a Three-Percenter
Late Morning, Monday, March 31, 2025, Miami, Florida “According to The Synergy Whisperer, ninety-seven percent of people who start to write a book NEVER finish it. In simpler terms, out of every 1,000 people who start a book, only thirty actually complete it.” – Zoe Wynns, Six Reasons Why Authors Don’t Finish Their Book and…
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Writer’s Shop Talk: An Unplanned (and Tiring) All-Nighter!
Midday, Friday, March 7, 2025, Miami, Florida Hi, everyone, and welcome to the Friday edition of A Certain Point of View, Too. Here in South Florida, the temperature is 75°F (24°C) under sunny conditions. With humidity at 46% and the wind blowing from the east-southeast at 8 MPH (13 Km/H), it feels like it’s 81°F…
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Time Marches On…and On….
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in Alex Diaz-Granados, Amazon, Books, Creative Writing, Family History, Kindle, Kindle Create (Publishing App), Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP), Life in Florida, Life in Madison (NH), Life in Miami (1972-2016), Life in Miami….Again, Life in New Hampshire (December 2023 – October 2024), Life in South Florida, Life in the Tampa Bay area, Personal Thoughts, Reunion Duology, Reunion: A Story, Reunion: Coda, Writing as a CraftEarly Afternoon, Saturday, March 1, 2025, Miami, Florida “In March, winter is holding back, and spring is pulling forward. Something holds and something pulls inside of us too.” ― Jean Hersey It’s a warm first day of March – and the first day of meteorological spring – in my corner of Miami-Dade County. The temperature…
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A Writer’s Afternoon in Miami: Battling Laundry and Literary Demons
Mid- to Late Afternoon, Friday, January 17, 2025, Miami, Florida It’s a cool, gray afternoon here in South Florida. As I sit in my dimly lit room on this final weekend of President Joe Biden’s Administration, the temperature is a mild 70°F (21°C) under cloudy skies. It’s not exactly postcard weather, but hey, it’s warmer…
A Certain Point of View, Too 