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Delayed

I didn’t think that I needed to be reminded. But we all need the reminders. The reminder came to me as I was sitting in the terminal to the airport, waiting for the flight that had already been the replacement to an earlier flight that was cancelled. This new flight became delayed. So delayed that…
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Learning the Business End

I love writing. I love to splash ink (or pixels) onto a page into an orderly fashion that resembles in some way… a story. I’ve been doing it for over 20 years in bursts and sputters and what I’d like to be doing for however many years I continue to live. In many ways, I…
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The Climb Back

I’ve given up. No, not on writing, or this blog, or on the attempts at making writing a career. What I am giving up on is my excuses. All those reasons I give as to why I am not making progress, they weren’t the problem. I have been the problem. Life happens; life sucks. Each…
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Two Pet Peeves

My reading has fallen off. The last few weeks I’ve struggled to pick up the books I’ve been reading. In large part, like Law of Success by Napoleon Hill, it isn’t that the book is bad or uninteresting, it’s that it’s a slog to get through. It’s taking considerable effort. Now, in this case, it’s…
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A Therapeutic Rant

To say that I haven’t written in a long time is not quite an accurate statement. I have written some. Mainly words have come in sporadic bursts, like a sneeze of literary gumption, where I will add words to a page and then move on to some other thing, seemingly unable to continue writing. Days…