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Based on the evidence it seems I am officially over the internet. Not so, however, with several of the people on it. What to do? What to do? -
Epiphany
I get these little insights sometimes -- kind of frequently, these days. The kind of insights that almost make me roll my eyes at their obviousness, except that the new understand is so welcome that I can't roll my eyes, only get a little excited that I *finally* get something that is probably as plain as the nose on my face (intentional cliche ( Read more... ) -
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We saw a mallard, a couple of weeks ago, my husband and I, out for a walk on a day when it wasn't raining. The mallards have been flying around, acting kind of crazy. One day two of them, about three miles apart, landed on the road less than 300 feet in front of my car. They worried me ( Read more... ) -
Pathologically hopeful, an utterly disorganized collection of thoughts on then and now
I'm going to start this with the tweets I started this morning, intending at that time to both explore and explain something, then soon realizing that I needed to go in deeper than either Twitter or my empty stomach would allow ( Read more... ) -
Avocado
"Did you get the beer?" Hank pulled taco shells and salsa from the grocery bag and set them on the counter. Taco shells go in the pantry, salsa in the refrigerator. Is that so hard ( Read more... ) -
Okay here we goooooooooo!
I've got 9 weeks before the start of the next editorial cycle. Let's see how close I can get to the end of the first draft of this novel! Follow me on Twitter (same handle, @dampscribbler) for word count updates. :)
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Where good writing comes from
Good writing doesn't come from MFA programs. It doesn't come from interesting stories. Good writing comes from a profound love of the truth, and from the understanding that no matter how much you love truth, most people find it overwhelming, and therefore anything as clear and beautiful and delicious and powerful as truth must be wrapped up, ( Read more... ) -
Voted
This one's got me biting my nails. I wish that thinking this election may be stolen by the right-wing felt like a paranoid delusion, but based on considerable evidence from reasonably credible sources, it feels very possible. I'm worried, too, that no matter who is President for the next four years, we're going to be facing deeper and deeper ( Read more... ) -
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Sometimes one little friend request on Facebook can totally make your day. :) -
On writing
I'm not sure how I'm ever going to manage to finish this book when I get approximately 30 minutes a week to write and every time I do get a chance I can't find the notebook I left off in so I just grab whatever is closest so as not to waste time.
I have GOT to get organized. :-/