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Romancing the Words

Posted on September 3, 2025 by Stace Dumoski
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Lately, I feel like my relationship is missing something. Oh, we get along most of the time. We manage to

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Me, Myself & the Audience

Posted on May 17, 2023 by Stace Dumoski
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A version of this post was originally published on September 16, 2007. A friend, Gaby, had asked me to answer

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Can This Block Be Broken?

Posted on January 18, 2023 by Stace Dumoski
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After yesterday’s post about writer’s block, I thought I would share this old one of mine, which captures the early

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The Only Magic We Have

Posted on January 10, 2023 by Stace Dumoski

“The only magic we have is what we make in ourselves, the muscles we build up on the inside, the

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My Quest to Find the Magic

Posted on January 2, 2023 by Stace Dumoski

In 2021 my “word of the year” was more than an annual theme for me — Stay on Target became

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How I Plan to Stay on Target in 2023

Posted on January 1, 2023 by Stace Dumoski

It’s January 1st, and that means that I am in the midst of prepping my planner for the coming year.

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A New Groove for the New Year

Posted on December 30, 2022 by Stace Dumoski

As we come down to the last few days of the year, my thoughts circle more and more around what

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Sharpening Tools Against Writers Block

Posted on December 13, 2022 by Stace Dumoski
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For me, the idea of resistance is an important one. As someone who struggles constantly to cross the border from dreaming to accomplishing, being able to conceive of that the struggle as something external and inevitable is reassuring.

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It’s Sort of Like Time Travel

Posted on December 6, 2022 by Stace Dumoski
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As much as I enjoy the process of composing a blog post, I love being able to engage with my past self when I reread it years later. 

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Stace Dumoski

Fantasy Writer & Editor