Tag: observations
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IWSG March
Whose perspective do you like to write from best, the hero (protagonist) or the villain (antagonist)? And why? This could quite possibly be a result of TV and movie consumption over 40+ years, but I tend to dabble in both, in part because of the effects I want to play with. The other…
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IWSG January 2018
What are your favorite and least favorite questions people ask you about your writing? Sadly, not many people ask questions, and when they do, it’s the same questions: What do you write? I will say there are a number of things that I don’t like people saying about my writing. These things make my eye…
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Fear
Fear is an interesting thing. We all have different fears – heights, pain, children, dentists, clowns, ketchup stains and so on – but we all have some of the same fears, too. Failure is a biggie, but in my experience, it isn’t just “failure” that’s the problem. It’s the consequences of failure that we’re afraid…
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The Crazy is Showing…
Things have been rough lately. It seems to happen that way – I don’t know if it’s a Universe-tosses-a-bannana-in-my-path-for-reasons thing or if it’s coincidence or what, but it seems to feel like whenever I start to peacefully pull myself together, tornado-volcano-earthquake happens. I thought I’d been dealing rather well with certain changes in “The Plan.”…
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Doubts
Doubts are hard. I mean they are useful, they serve an evolutionary purpose. Doubt makes one give a second, more careful look at something. Doubt gives you reason to move cautiously, maybe take in a few extra details about the situation or your plans. Doubt may have saved an ancestor or two from becoming some…
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Directions?
Have you ever decided to take a long, hard look at your life and *think* about what it is your doing and why and what you are expecting to get out of it? Have you ever noticed that in most movies, the hero doing this manages to sort his/her shit out in a single night…
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