Amanda Stockton
One Year Later...
You know, it’s interesting to me. I haven’t touched this blog in a year now. A FULL YEAR. A year where I probably should have written the...
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Amanda Stockton
- Dec 18, 2020
- 5 min
Existing in the Time of Covid
I havent blogged in months. Caught up in the spiral of nothingness and everythingness that has been the last quarter of 2020. The fires...
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Amanda Stockton
- Sep 10, 2020
- 5 min
Reality Burns
I sit here and I wait. I cry myself ragged in the dark. My body shakes. My voice cracks. And then there is silence. A woeful numbness...
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Amanda Stockton
- Jul 20, 2020
- 6 min
For the Consideration of Places
“This used to be my playground…” That damn song rang through my head at every opportunity. Like some poorly written Lifetime movie where...
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Amanda Stockton
- May 30, 2020
- 2 min
Humanity Screams
My hands freeze. They fail to create. To pick up a pen. To write. To bring me breath and life as the only way I have ever known to find...
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Amanda Stockton
- Apr 15, 2020
- 7 min
Writing Truth in Fiction
Or—Write what you know. I think it’s kind of funny that this concept—this age-old advice—is so contested by writers these days. A...
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Amanda Stockton
- Mar 11, 2020
- 5 min
It's Not You, It's Me (sorta)
This was going to be a tweet--it ran away from me. Ok. Look. Managing your social spaces, such as Twitter, and how often you utilize...
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Amanda Stockton
- Feb 24, 2020
- 4 min
On Balance and Bullshit
This was supposed to be an Instagram post...It ran away. *** What I want to do every day is typically overshadowed by a lot of mess....
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Amanda Stockton
- Jan 21, 2020
- 3 min
Transitions and Learning How to Start Over
The batteries on all my devices are nearly dead as I decide it is time I sit down and write. Isn’t that the way it always goes for people...
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Amanda Stockton
- Dec 26, 2019
- 4 min
Pieces Falling into Place
Here we go. Sliding into the new year. Leaving 2019 behind us but taking along the lessons and the scars it left us with. It is weird to...
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Amanda Stockton
- Nov 19, 2019
- 8 min
Selling Yourself--I Mean, Your Work
20Books Vegas Takeaways: As writers we tend to have the grave misconception that the writing is the hard part of authorhood. When in...
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Amanda Stockton
- Oct 10, 2019
- 4 min
Dream a Little Dream of Me
It’s been awhile. Truth is…words have not been friendly lately. In fact, they have eluded me completely. Even a daily vss prompt has been...
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Amanda Stockton
- Aug 25, 2019
- 4 min
Dive into the Tide
On the issue of failure. I think that I have failed at every single thing that I have ever attempted. I mean. When it comes to anything...
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Amanda Stockton
- Aug 22, 2019
- 3 min
What Even is Life?
What. The. Crap. An interesting way to start things off here, for sure. But let us not be bogged down with false pretenses. It's not...
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