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Off to a Good Start

September 1, 2016 by Christopher Gronlund 1 Comment

Sprinter in the starting block

We all have our seasons. For me, there’s something about the time from September and all the way into April that is wonderful. Specifically, though, the next three months are usually my best writing months. Mornings are dark, meaning quiet time as people sleep longer and the world stays hushed just a little longer than […]

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Change is in the Air

August 28, 2016 by Christopher Gronlund 1 Comment

Pink puffy clouds

We will see more 100-degree days in Texas, no matter how many people say, “The hot weather’s done for the year!” while looking at thermometers reading 97 degrees. But it is that time of year when things seem to change. I suppose the biggest change for me is, after four years with the big department […]

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Odds and Ends

February 23, 2016 by Christopher Gronlund 1 Comment

Coffee cup on a wooden table

The short story I mentioned in the last entry? You can listen to it right here (or click on the image at the end of this post for a 20-second sample). (It’s about a woman who lands her dream job as a writer, but gets much more than she bargained for in the form of […]

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The Guy in Your MFA

October 22, 2015 by Christopher Gronlund Leave a Comment

Guy lighting a pipe

I recently wrote about writers writing about writers. In an earlier draft of the entry, I mentioned a guy in several college classes I was in. He never actually wrote anything (as much as any of us could tell), but he talked about writing a lot. He rolled his own cigarettes, carried around a copy […]

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Are Writers Liars?

October 19, 2015 by Christopher Gronlund Leave a Comment

I sometimes feel like I begin too many entries, here, with, “So I was listening to Jess Walter and Sherman Alexie on the Tiny Sense of Accomplishment podcast…” But it’s that good! In the most recent episode, Sherman and Jess talk about writers and lying. Some quotes from that section: I make stuff up at […]

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What is Real?

October 14, 2015 by Christopher Gronlund Leave a Comment

Hands sculpting clay

I saw someone on a podcast community I frequent talk about what they do in their “real job.” It’s a term I’ve heard used frequently: I really love sculpting, but my real job is software development… There’s nothing I’d rather do in life than paint, but my real job is working as an admin… I […]

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Lazy Weekend Blues

October 12, 2015 by Christopher Gronlund Leave a Comment

Relaxed point of view: lying in the grass by a pond, looking at one's feet...

I had a list of things I planned to do this past weekend. It wasn’t a list written on a piece of paper or captured by an app to remind me to do these things at a specific time. It’s the list of things I do every weekend: I planned to write and record podcasts. […]

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Truth in Fiction

October 5, 2015 by Christopher Gronlund Leave a Comment

Person wearing skull and antlers

I have a friend who hates magicians. He feels they mock the audience in an act of, “I know something you don’t know!” (There are many people who feel this way about magicians.) Me, on the other hand…I like good magic. I don’t mind that the person on stage knows truths I don’t know. When […]

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Keeping it Short

October 2, 2015 by Christopher Gronlund 1 Comment

Manual typewriter and notebook

Last night, I did something for the first time in what feels like years… I started a new short story. I’m not sure if it’s actually been years, or only feels that way. In recent years, my focus has been on novels and podcasts. Outside of Megan Mayhew Bergman and Dan Chaon, I’m not sure […]

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The Forged Work of a Lifetime

May 14, 2015 by Christopher Gronlund 2 Comments

Anvil

Reading this piece about John Steinbeck during lunch yesterday got me thinking about what is lost in one’s pursuit of what they love doing when bound by other things. Before getting to that, though, a bit about Steinbeck’s writing. There is Something More, Here I’ve mentioned plenty of times that I came to literary/contemporary literature […]

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Finally Playing Storium

March 1, 2015 by Christopher Gronlund Leave a Comment

Campfire w/ Storium logo

I love Kickstarter and Indiegogo. I think it’s so cool that someone can come up with an idea and, possibly, see it funded. (Hell, I even took a try myself a couple years ago.) I’ve helped fund tiny projects, things I was really happy to fund, and even some of the biggest things to hit […]

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The Death of a Printer

February 6, 2015 by Christopher Gronlund Leave a Comment

Broken HP LaserJet 4L Printer

Earlier this week, I mentioned that my printer died while printing the first draft of the latest novel. Here’s the rest of the story… Twenty-One Years Ago Twenty-one years ago, a laser printer in the home was a big deal. I can’t remember if the printer ran $700 or $800 at the time, but with […]

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Year Five

September 8, 2014 by Christopher Gronlund 6 Comments

Five years ago, I wrote the first entry for The Juggling Writer. Looking back at my earnest beginning, I hoped the blog would show people how to manage their time in order to get things done (life and writing in harmony). I know I’ve written plenty of entries focused on that very thing, but I’m […]

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