Justin D. Herd's Blog

What's Been Going On | Tripping Forward Into the Future

So, what I have been doing since . . . [checks notes] August 17th, when I released my Fallen video?Well, I’ve been fighting my former employer due to my Medical Leave, though I can’t necessarily...

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Rebuilding Yourself | The Merits of Failure

I have grown and failed time and time again.

There are different levels of failure and most of them are on display for
everyone to see.

At the end of the day, I'm still a writer, but novels have...



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Coasting and the Ideals of Writing

Back at the first NerdCon:Stories (2015), I attended a panel where Patrick
Rothfuss commented that he's found with new writers, especially if their
work is good, that it usually leads to breakdowns...



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The Ninth Gate - The Satanic Book Detective

Not necessarily an accurate choice, but, regardless, The Ninth Gate is an
awesome movie directed by Roman Polanski, while you could somewhat still
categorize Johnny Depp as "normal." This week, I...



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Daybreakers - Stylish Vampire Hijinks

And here's my second video in my Analysis series. This could also be titled
"Where It Went Wrong." Daybreakers is one of those special cases where it
could lose you over and over again, but somehow...



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YellowBrickRoad - An Existential Romp Through the Woods

YellowBrickRoad is an existential horror set in the woods of New Hampshire.
It melds the futile search into unanswerable questions with a mystery of
why a whole town would walk into the wilderness...



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Reflecting on 2016

For the majority of the year, I have remained fairly silent. Obviously, the
podcast has been ongoing, but, as a professional writer, this past year has
been stagnant. I've toyed with ideas, I've...



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COVER REVEAL: Signs of Attraction by Laura Brown

Do you know what hearing loss sounds like? I do.

All my life I've tried to be like you. I've failed.

So I keep it hidden.

But on the day my world crashed down around me, Reed was there.



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Early Morning Brainstorming (or, The Pitfalls of Sleep Deprivation)

There's a thrill, a rush, that comes when brainstorming a novel. One of my
favorite things about the process is when all the thoughts you've had
swirling around in your head start really taking...



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A Meeting of Ghosts

Not to seem maudlin or anything like that, but my last couple trips have
had a weird but of nostalgia mixed with resilience.

As I noted in my past post, I'm divorced now. It was a shock: I found...



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