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Coffee Dates: Frustrations
Good Morning, Creatives! Tomorrow’s the weekend! Anyone have any plans? Writing, adventuring, or just sleeping? (I’m mostly planning on sleeping, if at all possible.) Since I need sleep (and I always do) this week’s question is about frustration. Which part of your writing journey frustrates you the most? What gets you really heated and annoyed…
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A Writer’s Life: Joy
Writer, what makes you joyful? Like, singing-at-the-top-of-your-lungs joyful? So joyful that you just want to put on some crazy music and dance in your kitchen? Do you know? I actually had to think pretty hard to figure out what it was that made me that joyful. Spending quality time with people I love, flowers, music,…
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Fighting Goliath
On Saturday, my writing group came to my house. Coming to my house is an adventure in itself. I’ve mentioned frequently that I live in the middle of nowhere, right? So, sometimes even Google Maps has a hard time leading people up my driveway. Two of my imagination buddies got lost. Then they called me.…
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Coffee Dates: Genre
Good Morning, Creatives! Who else needs coffee today? I do. I need a caffeine drip into my veins just to keep me going. Too much coffee (or black tea) knocks out my creativity, but so does falling asleep at my desk. There’s a balance to this, right? There’s got to be a balance. Balance (in…
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A Writer’s Life: Comparison
Have you ever heard the saying, “Comparison is the thief of joy”? If so, you’re not the only one. I’ve heard that saying a hundred different places, and it always rings true. However, I would like to take it a step further and say that comparison is the thief of creativity. Our stories are very…
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A Late Night Visitor
Have I ever mentioned that I live in the middle of nowhere? Because I live in the middle of nowhere. My little house is smack in the middle of the woods, and it takes me thirty minutes of driving to find Walmart, fill my car up with gas, or get to the library. And if…
A.R. Geiger 