Self-care
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When I stopped writing fiction last year, I said one reason was I’d stopped enjoying doing it. I may have made a mistake with that statement. Last night, I was looking through old journal entries when I found this excerpt from November 2005: I need to think about how to enjoy the process of writing.…
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I’ve been trying to write a publishable novel for a long time. The desire goes back to junior high school, and I kept at it for decades. I’ve tried my hand at fantasy, science fiction, and mystery. Many attempts were awful, but I learned from each one and I always hoped that eventually the effort…
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I started earning a paycheck at age sixteen. In my forty-two years in the workforce, one thing has remained constant regardless of employer or industry: the insistence that none of us are doing enough. Through boom or bust, no matter how busy we may be, leaders demand that we be more productive. It’s maddening enough…
Semantics & So On 