Sarah Long Writes

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Book Review: “Victoria” by Daisy Goodwin

I’ve always been a Daisy Goodwin fan. She seems to get right into the heart of history and make herself at home. As a writer who has dabbled in the historical genre, I can confirm that it’s not an easy thing to pull off. Daisy does it, and she did it again with Victoria. Unfortunately,…
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Meditation, Take Two

So I’ve been reading Sadghuru’s book, Inner Engineering: A Yogi’s Guide To Joy (amazing, by the way) and got really confused by the idea of having the innate ability to respond to everything, which is what he calls responsibility. I mean, I figured I’d always known that, why was it something that needed to be…
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Bucket List: Preparing For My Meditation Day

One of my Things-To-Do-Before-30 Bucket List items includes spending an entire day meditating. I knew while typing it into that fateful blog post that this would be one of my bigger challenges. In fact, it would probably take as much practice and prep as my 5K run goal. Little did I know how out of…
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Yes, I Did A Fairy Unicorn Photoshoot For My Blog

And I’m so proud of it!! This website needed some serious updating, so I figured I’d spice it up with some new photos. I wanted to go for the whole pastoral-damsel-writing-a-book-with-a-unicorn-and-a-spaceship-in-the-background kind of thing (mythical beasts and flying saucers will be Photoshopped in soon!). To be honest, I wasn’t expecting it to come out as…
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How Hiring A Professional Editor Saved My Manuscript

Fellow writers, I get it –– shelling out money to edit something you’ve written for free isn’t your idea of a good time. It took me years to talk myself into investing in a professional round of editing, and it was only when I was getting desperate for help that I finally gave in. “Becoming…
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What It Means To Miss New Orleans

As part of my Tuesday Travels posts, I’m going to do random spotlights on cities that I either 1) Know pretty well or 2) Can’t stop obsessing over. This will hopefully be a good way to get my travel writing chops up to par. My first choice, of course, contains a little bit of both…
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The Awesomeness That Is Sadhguru

I had a weird moment on the last night of 2016. It was around 11:45PM and I wanted to meditate (yes, I was preparing for my upcoming old lady status by staying in). My thought process was that by beginning 2017 with good, peaceful energy, those feelings would continue throughout the year. So we scanned…
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Bucket List: 20 Things I Must Do In My Last Year As A 20-Something

I’m turning 29 next month, and I feel like I’m standing on the edge of an abyss, peering down into the darkness at the endless expanse of the rest of my life, and it’s old and gray and wrinkly. There’s a lot of knitting going on, too. And it kind of smells like sour cream.…
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Review: Everything You Want Me To Be, by Mindy Mejia (Spoiler-free)

So I just finished “Everything You Want Me To Be” by Mindy Mejia. I should start off these reviews by saying that I’m one of those readers who gets immersed in just about any book, so that’s rarely a problem for me. This was no different, and I mostly enjoyed the characters and the…
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Interview With A Character: Rose Swansea

I’m going to kick off my first Wednesday Writings post with a character interview, because Rose Swansea very much wants to be absolved of her sins. This young English immigrant is haunted by the stalker who killed her lover, and despite escaping to a Manhattan speakeasy catering to practitioners of the occult, the masked Aidos…
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