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May.20.2013
As I have may have mentioned, I am a huge motorsports fan. I love all types of racing, but especially F1 and IndyCar. May just happens to hold the two greatest race for each series, the Grand Prix of Monaco and the Indy 500. While each series respectively hosts a bevy of other races,...
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May.16.2013
Being a mother is, without a doubt, the hardest job I have ever done. I know to say this is a bit of a cliche, but it's true. It is a twenty four hour a day job, in which my employers even follow me to the bathroom to make sure their requests are heard and fulfilled. That being...
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May.15.2013
I was recently party to a conversation in which I was asked what purpose writing served in my life. The other participant in the conversation pointed out, with unemotional, matter-of-factness, that, as I was yet to make much money, writing was something that was absorbing amounts of my time yet...
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May.11.2013
I have always heard the expression "a day at the beach" used in reference to a task or event that is not only easy, but enjoyable. A perfectly, sunshine filled experience, destined to bring one great peace and satisfaction.
However, anyone who has dutifully and lovingly toted children, and all...
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May.06.2013
Moving is exhausting. There is no other way to put it, it is purely exhausting. Throw in some lovely, but unruly, children, a desire to keep writing, and some other regular run of the mill chaos and there you have it-exhaustion. Most people would probably start to complain a little here, they are...
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May.02.2013
As I look out the picture window that adorns the rear of our house I see a sky full of curvaceous, tumultuous silvery clouds. They hover overhead both promising and threatening rain, each swell of their distinction covering a spectrum of shades of grey. The atmosphere is heavy, thick with humidity...
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Apr.25.2013
I have been known to be a bit temperamental. My mother, an American, would tell you, without hesitation that I have my father's Maltese temperament, passionate, extreme, artistic, emotional, and many other adjectives which I'm not sure I can, or should, repeat in my blog. Over the years,...
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Apr.22.2013
I am in the process of moving. It is, I must admit, mass chaos, in my house, but it is also something else. It is productive. I know that sounds absolutely ridiculous since it is a challenge to write even a sentence, much less actually make progress on my novella, not to mention keeping up...
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Apr.19.2013
My grandfather, first and foremost, was a farmer. He, later in life, once he married my grandmother and they had a family, worked for Arvin and helped my grandmother run the family's grocery store, in addition to farming, but he was a farmer in the true sense of the word. His life was intricately...
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Apr.16.2013
Recently, someone I know who is writing a book, asked me how to name her main character. She had written a chapter or so about the character but she kept changing the name and at this point had no name for her. For a moment I started blankly at her, since, to be honest, I had never...
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Apr.11.2013
Writing is a creative process, at least for me. That means that some days it flows and some days it doesn't, that sometimes pages and pages, even chapters if there is time, coming pouring out in wonderful, rhythmic lines while other days each click of the keys is painful. It is an emotional...
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Apr.09.2013
I have spent the last two weeks inside. Now, as I am a writer this may, at first, lend itself to the idea that I have been curled over my laptop, typing frantically away as winter begrudging held on for as long as it possibly could, gripping tightly in a last ditch effort to make it's voice heard...
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Mar.26.2013
As I may have mentioned previously, I am a huge motor sports fan, particularly Formula 1 racing. I find it dramatic, passionate, and inspiring even on a quiet day, which by quiet I mean uneventful, not actually quiet.
Anyone who watches racing, or is passionate about cars in general...
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Mar.19.2013
I have always been one of those people that enjoys having several projects going. I love having a variety of things to work on, each one contributing (theoretically) to well balanced work and a well balanced me. Currently, I have a novel, a biography, and a fourth rough draft for my children...
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Mar.12.2013
Many writers use pen names when they write. Everyone from Agatha Christie to Nora Roberts, have at some point, used pen names. I myself use a pen name, although that choice is now coming into question, which has of course prompted me to hold the practice up to the light and truly...
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If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, either way you're right.”
—Henry Ford
About A.J.
Hi! My name is A.J. Attard. and I am an American author who has just self-published my first novel, "A Convoluted Tale," and am busily working on my second as well. I have always had a great passion for writing and while I spent most of my life on horseback,...
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A.J. ’s Favorite Books
The Great Gatsby, War and Peace, The Likeness, I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings, The Dressage Chronicles