Writing Journey: Writer Weirdness

Being that it's New Year's Day (and I'm out of town), I'm cheating by re-posting from my archives from when I literally had what, two readers? Below is literally my very first post, and since it happens to be writing-related, I thought it'd be a good fit for my Writing Journey series.
(As a side note, the scene I refer to the beginning was for Hannah's injury in Spires of Stone.)
Enjoy!
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