Author name: Jarrett

After 13 years of being in education, the desire to write took over. I love writing fiction, screenplays, and technology articles. I hope one day to have a site that you come to on the daily to see what's going on.

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How a Mac Protects Your Privacy

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How to Make Any File a Template on MacOS

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Get Rid of Your Duplicate Photos on Mac for MUO

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Review: The Mandalorian Season 3 Episode 7 – The Spies | An Adventurous Return To Form

The Mandalorian Season 3 episode 7 issues a fun return to form this week! After last week’s guest star leaden cast, the show deals with the return of a threatening figure, bringing warring sections together, and how to deal with Grogru. With the adventure back in gear, how did this week’s episode fair? Read on

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The Mandalorian Season 3 Episode 6 – A Boring Exploration into Droid Rights

I’ve been an avid Star Wars fan for as long as I can remember. So much so that I can’t believe I haven’t written about the Mandalorian before. I’ve watched every episode of the show since it premiered, eagerly waiting for the next. Normally, Din Djarin and his Mandalorian adventures with Grogu kept me entertained,

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Missing in Action – Where Have You Been in 2023?

Where have you been? Since January, I’ve been missing in action here. I tried my best to keep things from going dormant, but my time got taken away from me for the last few months. Hopefully, I can start to turn things around, but I still have more to do outside of the internet before

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How to Plan Your Entire Novel with NovelPad

I wrote a blog post for my new favorite writing software Novelpad.co. Check out my post on how to plan your entire novel using NovelPad. Hopefully, this is the first of more guest posts to come!

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#Goals – A Quick Short Story

I made it a challenge to write a short story, under a thousand words, with the prompt Goals, for the new year. While I struggled to finish it in my deadline timeframe, here it is. #Goals by Jarrett S. Smith His arms burned, but he couldn’t stop. Not this close to his goal.  His palm

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Home for the Holidays | The Southwest Meltdown | Part 1

Like many others, my family got caught up in all the Southwest cancellations for the holidays of 2022. I just wanted to get our story down for and I might be able to spin this into a holiday comedy movie or something. Keeping Us Apart Before we get to this year’s story, I need to

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Getting It On The Page – How to Write A Novel

So you want to know how to write a novel but don’t know where to start. You’ve had an idea floating around in your head that you think would make a great book, but you don’t know what to do next. Maybe you have some thoughts that you think could be the next best seller,

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