Month: May 2020
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The Second Noble Truth
The Origin of Suffering I thought, maybe, that I should continue on with a follow-up for yesterday’s post—so here goes. In Buddhism, the Second Noble Truth is known as Samudaya—The Origin of Suffering. Much like the First Truth-Dukkha—this one is deceptively simple to understand. Applying it is always the tricky part. The Buddha observed that…
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The 1st Noble Truth…and Writing
“All is suffering.” Yesterday I was reading through my Twitter timeline and noticed an alarming number of writers talking about their struggles and disappointments. Letters of rejection, complete silence from publishers, agents, editors, and beta-readers—these are just a few of the sources of frustration that writers deal with on a daily basis. Reading through all…
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Writing Management…
This is, by no means, meant to be a serious post. Just me rambling. For reasons that shall go completely unmentioned, I was flipping through my copy of the PMBOK (Project Management Body of Knowledge). I was looking at some of the stuff I’ve learned about project management and integrated master schedules over the last…
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First Published Story
The folks at http://www.militaryexperience.org released volume 12 of As You Were: The Military Review. This edition contains my first published short story. Cheers and enjoy. “The Concert”
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Stalling?
Do you have a routine for your writing? Are there things you have to accomplish, or steps you have to take before you can actually sit down to write or are you one of those folks who can just write anytime, anywhere, regardless of the situation? Over the last two months, I’ve found that I’m…
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Grad School Problems
I took the past week off from writing here to work on a thesis for a Master of Arts in Homeland Security. The week has been interesting. I’ve been writing non-stop fiction/short-stories for most of the last eighteen months (either on my own or as part of the Master of Arts in Writing program at…
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Turf War
Again, not really a writing update. Just some rambling. Yesterday, I mentioned on my Twitter account that I’m starting to write my Master’s thesis for a degree in Homeland Security. Classes started and I’m spending most of the week working on the research question—primarily with the goal of not sounding either A) dumb or B)…
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Guitar
Not really writing related… Needed a hobby outside of work and writing. Sooo… Started playing guitar a month ago and just learned my first part of a song.
Matt Hardman 