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IWSG May 2025
May 7 question – Some common fears writers share are rejection, failure, success, and lack of talent or ability. What are your greatest fears as a writer? How do you manage them? Ahhhh….imposter syndrome. A favorite subject of mine, if you haven’t been able to tell from past entries. I think the big fear is…
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April 2025 WTF
Because even the calendar says WTF after Tuesday. This is going to be a bit of a random spot. Like the previous Wednesdays of this month, I’m trying out recurring themes on Wednesdays to see what happens. I’m kinda hoping it will keep me focused, but we’ll find out. So let’s dive in on some…
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Word Wednesday: Wankpuffin
I cannot promise how, where or when these words were used, if ever. I simply find them delightful, and want to share. WANKPUFFIN Supposed to be a word from a British dialect, a Wankpuffin is a word used to describe a self-absorbed jerk. I’ve heard “wanker,” and “wank-stain,” but “wankpuffin” is definitely a first. Every…
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Mental Health April 2025
I’m thinking about throwing this in on the second Wednesday of each month. I write about it enough here, so perhaps I can contain it to one post a month instead of every other post if I dedicate a specific day to it. Depression is a personal struggle of mine, and has been since I…
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IWSG April 2025
My struggle with formatting continues. I’m just going to say it’s a PEBCAK error, and we’ll leave it at that. The goal of FINALLY squishing out the first book (FINALLY!!!) is approaching, but self-sabotage lurks around every corner. On the plus side, I know for a fact it isn’t some grand conspiracy among my supposed…
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The Oubliette
“Oubliette” is a French term, derived from “to forget”, and is a bottle-dungeon, in medieval architecture terms. A tiny space accessible only through a roof hatch, it was, perhaps, the most unpleasant of dungeons. My brain has a kind of Oubliette. At first, they were just downward spirals–I’d touch bottom, maybe hang out a little…
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