On the Current Cultural Decay
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On the Current Cultural Decay

My fear is that we can go backwards as a society. Literary fiction and other art dies in a bad or sick culture. Today, all literary fiction is tribalistic and not about morality at all.

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To Readers
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To Readers

Mission Statement: “I write to inspire readers to cherish the most meaningful moments found in daily life.”

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To Reporters
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To Reporters

Mission Statement: “I proofread to uphold the integrity of the American English language and the law.”

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Finding My Own Voice
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Finding My Own Voice

I now work for myself as a freelancer and I have nothing to lose, really. I have no teachers or professors there to lower my grades, I have no boss to fire me, I am completely on my own now and able to sink or swim by my own design.

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My Business and Current Routine
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My Business and Current Routine

I decided to call my new business “American Wordsmith” because I realized that all day, every day, I was spending with American English words in a variety of forms: reading them, writing them, fixing them.

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My Favorite Time Period Timeline (1850-1906)
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My Favorite Time Period Timeline (1850-1906)

The books that are the most sacred to me are as follows: Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand, Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo, and Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë. Of course, there are many other pieces of work that I love, but these speak to my soul.

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On the Writer
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On the Writer

However, I find that the only way to enhance one’s view of life is to romanticize it. Thanks to Ayn Rand, I now have a philosophical framework by which to live—Objectivism.

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