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English Muffin Theory- Hyper Accents- It’s all about the buttery nooks and crannies!

Scott Fischer

"Hit those accents like the buttery nooks and crannies of an English Muffin." you will often hear me say in SmArt School and in my videos for Muddy Colors. I guess my brain likes having simplified ways of remembering things. But I thought I'd take this post to dig in a bit deeper. Basically what I am saying is... you know when you butter an English Muffin... how the craters are random, and some fill…

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Forge Ahead

Vanessa Lemen

June 19, 2025 - When I start to write these articles here on Muddy Colors, I am often stricken with this strange dichotomy of being vulnerable in the sharing of something meaningful to the world and wondering if anyone even reads these anyway. Sometimes, my anxiety is so strong that I just need to post something that will not allow these feelings to bubble up. These types of articles are usually the ones that become the sharing of a few favorite tools or a quick bullet-point of the progression of a recent piece. But most of the time, I feel it’s truly important to really try to push past the feeling I get of worry and lack of worth, anxiety and dread, and share something meaningful, something human and thoughtful. It’s important to me. And it also scares the…

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