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How to Choose
Life is a huge, open-ended Choose Your Own Adventure book. At any moment, no matter the circumstance, you have some level of choice. You can choose which pair of pants to wear (if any), what to believe...
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How to Brew All Grain Noble Hopped Pilsner
I stepped into Maryland Homebrew a few weeks ago with a focused mind. I had a recipe. I had a goal. A singular idea dominated my mind, and my will was committed to pursing it even if it meant my ruin....
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How to Live like a Writer
Do you know what a lot of historically famous writers have in common? Aside from depression, alcoholism, psychosis, failed relationships, monomania, poverty, destitution, and narcissism, I mean. Give...
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Craft and Draft: Resumptives and Summatives and Appositives, oh my!
Bust out those style guides, argue over those serial commas, and question the legitimacy of those split infinitives, because it’s National Grammar Day! After Halloween, my birthday, National Hat Day,...
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Craft and Draft: Frag. Ments.
Not all sentences are privileged enough to grow up in a warm, loving home with supportive clauses and structured guidance. Some are forced to grow up on the syntax-streets, forced to figure out this...
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How to Peer Edit
It’s easy, as a writer, to think of your craft as a one-way street. You write words, send them bleeping and whirring through the wiry innards of the internet to a reader, who then reads them. It’s all...
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How to Brew a Boddingtons Clone
When looking for a new recipe, the adventurous homebrewer is faced with a breadth of choices so vast that it can be debilitating. You can, without too much exaggeration, brew almost anything you can...
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No NaNo
Despite a strong idea, a somewhat realized outline, and an opening chapter, I decided not to do NaNoWriMo this year. I “won” NaNoWriMo in 2011 and 2012, but swore that after the chaos of last year’s...
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How to Make Hop Tea
In a former life, many years before this one, I was prominent Egyptologist. During an expedition into the Medjai, my team and I discovered the tomb of a powerful sorcerer, one who was known to dance...
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How to Transplant Hops
I took the unseasonably warm weather this Saturday as a sign that I needed to get outside and do something. I need that vitamin D. I toyed with making an impromptu brew day out of the faux-spring...
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