Category: Life
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My Irrational Brain
Changes are a thing. Sometimes a wonderful thing, sometimes an uncomfortable thing. Change is the only constant in the Universe, as my Dad used to say. Like this new WordPress editor that they’re saying they will foist off on all of us. I’m using it now, but I’m not so certain I like it. But…
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Area 51 Update
I’ve referred to a spot in the basement as my own personal Area 51, filled with boxes and bags of projects that were started and never completed (hence, UFO – UnFinished Objects). I didn’t think it was a big area, maybe three feet by four feet by four feet. It wasn’t a slap’n’dash pile of…
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IWSG May 2020 – Very Late
Do you have any rituals that you use when you need help getting into the ZONE? Care to share? It used to be: get up, eat, get the kids to school, shower, tea, write. If I didn’t do one of those things, the day was shot for writing. If I had to do something else,…
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Tackling Area 51 In The Basement
Has anyone else encountered an odd psychological resistance to working on your Unfinished projects? I’ve made progress, I have, really. But some days it just feels like I’m flogging a dead horse to finish some of these things that I started years ago. I’m not talking about “I bought yard for this project, but I…
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IWSG April 2020
So this month’s question is: How are things in your part of the world? Very little writing in the last 6 months, despite my efforts. Less than awesome, but survivable. Things have been like that for a long time, actually. I thought I’d moved past it last fall, but then everything went to crap,…
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October 2019 IWSG
October 2 question – It’s been said that the benefits of becoming a writer who does not read is that all your ideas are new and original. Everything you do is an extension of yourself, instead of a mixture of you and another author. On the other hand, how can you expect other people to…
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