Category: Random
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IWSG October
How do major life events affect your writing? Has writing ever helped you through something? Y’all need to stop stalking me. I know I’m so fascinating, but asking questions like this is more creepy than the heavy breather on the phone (who incorrectly describes me, by the by). Years of observation have shown me a…
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Inspiration
I feel like Muse from the movie Dogma – I can inspire others all day long but it doesn’t work for me. Do you know how many people have told me I’m their damned inspiration? – People going through divorce (I’m not divorced, never have been, but somehow I gave them strength to do that?)…
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My Failure of Words
Most of those of us who write insist that words have the most power. People need words. People can feel through your words. People can live and breathe and love and even have sex using nothing but words. It’s something us writers can get a little smug about. Lately, my world has been turned upside…
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Fantasies
Do you think writers (and the more voracious readers) have fewer affairs? This is where a lot of affairs start: you’re unhappy. Why you’re unhappy could be any number of reasons; financial, you don’t feel appreciated, you feel used, disconnected, fill-in-the-blank. Whatever the reason, whatever the perceived cause, you’re unhappy. You don’t like being unhappy.…
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I Hate the Delivery Boy
Me: *standing outside my door* Wow! Losing the stress has really helped me get back my ability to focus on writing! Muse: *pulls up in a really sexy car and steps out to lean seductively on the hood* Hi, Sugar. Miss me? Me: Muse! Muse: *pats the hood of the car suggestively.* How about we…
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Of Self-Told Lies and Self-Made Lists
“… I sobbed: quietly, trying to make no noise… Crying because I’d reached the limit of what I could repress.” James Alan Gardner, Radiant This isn’t really a writing post, or even a super positive or funny post, so you can totally skip it. I won’t get upset. It’s been happening for a…
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