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Historian. Writer. Midwest spokesperson. Classical Millennial. Book lover. Writing a book on Toledo and another one on Millennial life. Star Wars & LOTR fan. He/Him/His. Views are mine alone 🏳️‍🌈📚
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1,544 words this week.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

800 more words. Go novel go!

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Gen Z is finally figuring out that most of the stuff they like is made/written/produced etc. by Millennials.

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

- Edited Ch 2 of my historical monograph - Edited Ch 4 of my essay manuscript - Wrote ~600 words of my novel My attempts at being a writer are progressing.

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- Edited Ch 2 of my historical monograph - Edited Ch 4 of my essay manuscript - Wrote 400 words of my novel (not quite done for the day yet) My attempts at being a writer are progressing.

submitted 34 days ago • 0 comments

Anyone have any good recommendations on books about the effect of WWI on American manufacturing, and the U.S. economy as a whole? Lots of literature on the effect of WWII, but I'm not finding as much on WWI.

submitted 35 days ago • 1 comment

My toxic trait is thinking that a hot shower, a new book, and a sweet treat can/will cure my depression.

submitted 35 days ago • 1 comment

Someone is impersonating me on here, so that’s disconcerting.

submitted 39 days ago • 0 comments

32,000 words in about 2 months. Not a blistering pace, but considering I have 2 jobs I’ll take it.

submitted 44 days ago • 1 comment

Remote/telework was the first time this country ever actually had 8 hours work, 8 rest, 8 hours for what we will.

submitted 46 days ago • 0 comments

Another 1,100ish words the last 2 days. Taking a break to map out a bit more but I’m among tremendous progress.

submitted 49 days ago • 0 comments

Just saw A Complete Unknown and my initial thoughts are: 1) Bob Dylan is a world-class asshole 2) No seriously, how did he have ANY friends? 3) He should’ve never won the Nobel Prize (this point is unrelated to the movie it’s more a standing complaint of mine)

submitted 49 days ago • 0 comments

I post about writing a book and now my Instagram and TikTok feeds are nothing but bookstagram and booktok people and please make it stop.

submitted 50 days ago • 0 comments

Really excellent thus far (about halfway through it).

submitted 50 days ago • 0 comments

The jury is still out on if it’s any good, but I am more and more confident that I can have a (messy) draft of my novel by the end of the semester.

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LinkedIn telling me I’m a top applicant for a job that I already for and got rejected from: the modern job market folks.

submitted 51 days ago • 0 comments

My novel is officially over the 100 page mark (little less than halfway)!

submitted 52 days ago • 1 comment

I am absolutely cranking through this novel.

submitted 53 days ago • 0 comments

900 more words in under an hour. I’m over 27,000 words now. Woohoo!

submitted 54 days ago • 0 comments

Another 782 words this afternoon.

submitted 58 days ago • 0 comments

Another 600 words today! Over 2,000 for the week.

submitted 59 days ago • 0 comments

Fun fact; we don't like it when you refer to the places where we live/where we’re from as "the Rust Belt." It's more of a historical term more than a contemporary one and, frankly, it is an inaccurate representation of most of the places you're trying to describe.

submitted 59 days ago • 0 comments

25,000 written since Dec 3.

submitted 60 days ago • 0 comments

Introducing fiancé to the greatest movie ever made; George Roy Hill’s 1973 classic, The Sting.

submitted 62 days ago • 1 comment

If I can keep my sanity through it all, there’s a chance I get to the end of the year with 3 completed manuscripts.

submitted 64 days ago • 0 comments

Adding as many of my history peeps on other social media before Twitter collapses into a fascist propaganda outlet.

submitted 65 days ago • 0 comments

Started writing at 9:15. Already have 900 words today. This thing has been incredible for my productivity.

submitted 73 days ago • 1 comment

I would give anything to go back to the time when there were no AI chat bots, no portals, no AI-automated messaging menus. Just let me call the fucking phone and talk to a fucking person. The AI industry is ruining modern life (and the environment, but that's a different story).

submitted 74 days ago • 0 comments

I know that people are probably getting annoyed with me, and they probably think I'm getting sponsored or something, but my Freewrite is amazing. I wrote 60 pages of my book in just over a month. I was never that productive before. The folks at Astrohaus are geniuses.

submitted 78 days ago • 2 comments

Typing on my Freewrite Smart Typewriter is so immensely satisfying. The price is definitely a bit high (although they do have a like 15% professor or student discount, so there's that but if you can swing it, they're sooo good.

submitted 79 days ago • 1 comment

Goddamn I love CostCo

submitted 84 days ago • 3 comments