Category: Life
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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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IWSG August 2019
Has your writing ever taken you by surprise? For example, a positive and belated response to a submission you’d forgotten about or an ending you never saw coming? Oh, if only my writing took me by surprise. Just kidding. That’s one of the joys of being a pantser – there’s always a surprise lurking…
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IWSG July 2019
What personal traits have you written into your character(s)? Umm… I think the list would be shorter if we asked what personal traits I didn’t write into my characters. I’ve used so many things – my personal faith, my outlooks on what a relationship should and shouldn’t be, my mule-headed tendency to try and do…
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