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All My Stuff, All Right Here

A complete list of my Medium articles, stories, and poetry

2 min readJun 23, 2020

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J. Brandon Lowry

Reasons to Keep Writing: Emma

Moments that make the struggle worth it

2 min readDec 29, 2023

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Reasons to Keep Writing: Emma

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Dribble, Drabble, Fountain, and Spout

The Glass Frog

Friends! Neighbors! Countryme — uh, people of Medium! I have finally done the thing. After years of toil, years of drafting and editing…

2 min readJul 7, 2023

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The Glass Frog

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Lit Up

Literary Rejection and the Slippery Slope of Self-Sabotage

Why expecting rejection leads to failure, while accepting it leads to success

4 min readMay 22, 2021

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Literary Rejection and the Slippery Slope of Self-Sabotage

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“I am one with the Force, and the Force is with me.”

Author’s note: this one was originally published a few years ago over at my now defunct blog The Academy. I don’t normally recycle content…

4 min readMay 4, 2021

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“I am one with the Force, and the Force is with me.”

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Dribble, Drabble, Fountain, and Spout

Who’s Telling This Story, Anyway?

Literary ventriloquism and the art of narration in storytelling

6 min readMar 29, 2021

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Who’s Telling This Story, Anyway?

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Lit Up

The Incalculable Value of Starting Small

The novel. It is Mt. Everest for fiction writers, that singular, seemingly insurmountable challenge we all aspire to overcome. Tell me…

5 min readFeb 27, 2021

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The Incalculable Value of Starting Small

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Literally Literary

blanched

pain, to begin with flat slap of water, falling into the cauldron

1 min readJan 31, 2021

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blanched

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Lit Up

The Path of Most Resistance

“We do these things not because they are easy, but because they are hard.” -President John Fitzgerald Kennedy

3 min readJan 30, 2021

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The Path of Most Resistance

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Lit Up

Belief

it starts with a germ a single grain of sand grit detritus that slips past the calcified bounds and lodges in the soft meat within

1 min readJan 18, 2021

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Belief

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J. Brandon Lowry

J. Brandon Lowry

Nomadic scientist and writer. Topics: Writing, Fiction, and Poetry. Debut novel The Glass Frog available at jbrandonlowry.wordpress.com/links

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