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If you see her, will you tell me?

This post could also be titled Gone, Baby, Gone. But someone else already took that and, hey look! I’m here now, aren’t I? I haven’t been writing as much as I’d like. Despite how that might sound, I am...

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The drones probably don’t do any writing.

The best thing you can have in your writing life is someone who is brave enough and smart enough to give you honest, helpful feedback. The second best thing you can have is the ability to listen to...

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Perhaps we shouldn’t always get what we think we want.

I went to bed last night feeling stressed and panicked. Then woke up WAY too early this morning feeling the same way. Little things, you know? Deadlines not met (me falling down on the job, others...

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That the powerful play goes on and you may contribute a verse.

What writing looks like sometimes: 1. Get up, plan to think about the writing project while walking to the coffee shop, instead talk to dad on phone, help plan sister’s wedding. 2. Go to coffee shop....

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My name is an endeavor. My name is a song.

Sponging. That’s what I call the thing when the work has wrung all the creative juices out of your skull and you are sucking on dry bone, trying to put just one. more. word. on the page. When what you...

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Now you hear what the house has to say.

I’ve been dealing with some pretty serious insomnia for the past few weeks. It’s the kind that comes three-fold, like a herd attacking from all sides. The first is that I don’t get tired as early as...

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Above us, stars. Beneath us, constellations.

Sometimes I get lost inside who I am. I contain more than multitudes. I am the view of dark space through the Hubble telescope. I am the ultra deep field, stars streaming my face like lost eyelashes. I...

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My Butt Hurts

That is to say: I’ve sat on my keister and written for about sixteen hours straight the last two days. Despite how it may seem, this, as Martha says, is a good thing. Words, baby, words. Kiss kiss bang...

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There’s no getting out alive, but you hope to avoid a deadline

A few years back, I read Haruki Murakami’s book, “What I Talk About When I Talk About Running.” “I run,” he writes, “to seek a void.” I wanted to seek a void too. But I had a complicated relationship...

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So in a way we were waiting for it.

I think we tag time by its passage, away from us or toward, but rarely right as it goes by, its light touch, its dawn promise. It’s too easy to miss it, while we are looking ahead or back. A ghost....

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