Blood, Sweat and Keyboards

Chronicling the journey of an aspiring novelist

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I Re-Read the First Novel I Ever Wrote. I Have Thoughts.

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February 18, 2025

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Those of you who’ve followed me for a while know I’ve been doing this writing thing since I was a teenager. That’s pretty damn close to a decade and a half now. You might also know I wrote my first novel as a teenager: I wrote the bulk of it in grade 10, before I…
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Reading Review – 2024

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January 22, 2025

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Hey all! Hope you’ve been holding up OK this January. I’ve been doing OK, just reading and writing and reading some more and writing some more and…well, what do you know, reading and writing some more. You know, the usual. Anyway, I know I’m a bit late on this, but I thought I’d pop in…
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Artist’s Envy

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January 14, 2025

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Hi everyone. It’s been a hot minute since I’ve written here. I meant to write more—I swear I did—but grad school is hella busy. Who knew? Sarcasm aside, with all the schoolwork I had to do, all the creative projects I was juggling, and all the responsibilities of everyday life piled on top of that,…
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Writing Update – March 10, 2024

Writing Updates

March 11, 2024

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Alright, update time. As I predicted, this last little while has been busy for me; if you’re a consistent reader here, though, you know that already. My main update this time is I’ve gotten stuck on Blueblood. Or, well, maybe not? Kind of? I’ve stopped actively working on it, anyway. I got stuck on a…
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Eric’s Reading Gauntlet – March 3, 2023

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March 4, 2023

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Alright, so this week, I thought I’d do something different. It likely won’t surprise any of you to learn my love of writing stems directly from my love of reading. My love affair with reading stretches way back: it’s one of the first things I was ever really passionate about, apart from culverts, entomology and…
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Writing Update – January 13, 2023

Writing Updates

January 14, 2023

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OK, I’m goanna be honest here: I really don’t have much of an update for you all this week. I mean, I got a little further in The Ravage, so I guess that’s something. But by “a little further,” I really do mean a little further. Progress this week has been extremely limited, and my…
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Mini Book Review: A Song of Ice and Fire

Mini Book Reviews

November 24, 2022

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Alright, so I recently finished A Dance with Dragons, the fifth and last of the available volumes in George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire. So now that I’m all the way through it, what did I think of the series as a whole? Well…I loved it! OK, that’s it, folks, review’s over.…
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Welcome to Blood, Sweat and Keyboards!

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November 8, 2022

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So I’m guessing for most of you, the first question on your mind is probably: What in blue blazes is Blood, Sweat and Keyboards? Well, in a word, Blood, Sweat and Keyboards is going to be my space to talk about writing. Primarily, at least: a few other topics might sneak in every now and…
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