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I sanded my heels today. Last night they caught on my bedding. It is so weird that they are just fine and then voila, one day they are rough and need a power sander like rough wood. My heels are rough wood. Pesk.

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So, think of today as a cheating on your novel day. Sneak off. Open a new document. Flirt with a new idea. It's your brain. Your brain is creative so it is perfectly okay to be creative. You can also be sneaky, subversive and up to no good today. Permission granted. #writingcommunity #booksky

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Because the brain wanders about like you at a favored buffet, nibbling here and there, you may feel like your forward progress is nonexistent. What you don't see is that your nibbling brain is feeding MANY stories, not just the freshest one in your file. #writingcommunity #booksky #nibblers

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Some writers want to feel they control their novel writing. They will use a calendar to predict when they will finish a novel, when it will publish and it will look structured and simple. This may work a few times. Then it won't work. Writing is not top down. #writingcommunity #booksky #writing

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Some aspects of story emerge from how you feel, what your mood is, where you left your keys, the pressure of your worn out car tires, the guilt of avoiding sex. All of these factors in your life (and many more) inform and shape your written stories. #writingcommunity #booksky #planning #chaos

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Learning how your particular writers brain functions takes a few years. If you hold a few good truths across all these functions you will move forward. Writing is not an executive function process even if you outline everything. Your inner pantster continues... #writingcommunity #booksky #pantsing

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The trick is to get your word count in today. Or get your editing in today. Or get your writing business stuff done today. Or plot a different novel today. Or check your contracts today. Or do critiques for your crit group today. It's all forward movement. Do the things. #writingcommunity #booksky

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You have lots and lots of stories lurking in your brain and in your files. This is the brain habitat of writers. Maybe you watched Jurassic Park and had a nifty way to start the next movie. I did. Plots and puzzles are ongoing and sometimes invisible competitions. #writingcommunity #booksky

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What is less obvious is that you can generate this same 'fresh take' experience with your own unfinished works. If you leave a story alone and cheat on it with a different story you create a brain dynamic that is a bit competitive. Character jealousies happen. #writingcommunity #booksky #jealousy

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If you have been a writer a while...you know that you can read some unfinished story from some other writer and voila your brain gets ideas. You have presented a puzzle to your brain. Fun. The brain immediately starts to solve for the puzzle. #writingcommunity #booksky #puzzles #plots #ideas

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Within your writing life experiences it is important to remember that you are your own god and you make all the rules that guide yourself. The important piece to this is that you should move your career forward. A new story is still story, still progress. #writingcommunity #booksky #writingmore

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Note that what looks like it could be the start of a short story may actually be the start of a novel. That's okay. It is perfectly fine to have a file called Works in Progress with story starts of all kinds. On days when your current novel is saggy, go look in that file. #writingcommunity #books

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When you let a novel rest it is drawing the juices of that story back into itself. You know you need more short stories so saggy middles are a good time to focus on the shiny squirrel and have new story energy time to recharge your brain. It's fine. Nab that squirrel. #writingcommunity #booksky

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A saggy middle is not the absence of ideas for your ongoing story but it is a flag that should tell you that you may need some time to ruminate on the story. New writers often believe if they stop writing on a novel today they will never finish it. #writingcommunity #booksky #writinglife #ideas

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One solution for saggy middles is to go shiny squirrel hunting. Everyone knows the shiny squirrel. This is that character or story that wags its bushy tail at you and shows you it is carrying the nut of a brand new great idea. You have shiny squirrels for a good reason. #writingcommunity #books

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Many writers experience saggy middles. Their novel is zooming along and then it isn't. Often they are plotting on the fly and the distance between crises grows too long creating the sag. This can also happen on the rise toward a crisis. #writingcommunity #booksky #saggymiddles #solutions

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I hope Sundays are sunny for you and bent toward fun today! My days always start with function first, followed by everything else. My toe remains okay if not improving. I have a doc visit tomorrow to discuss. I'm not in a black mood but the dog is sniffing about (metaphor).

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Congrats to Bram Stoker Award winners! We are so proud to call you part of the Falstaff crew! #booksky @lmariewood.bsky.social @nicolegkurtz.bsky.social

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I am disappointed that #nokings and #protests did NOT trend yesterday when so many people were in these protests (estimated 11 million) and other social media were literally flooded with posts. Please do not fail us again. #bluesky

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The current estimate of citizens showing up for NO KING 🤴🖕 today is at 11 MILLION nationwide. If you look at the penis massage trump tank parade, it was nearly empty. The estimate for the parade is over 45 Million $, the road repair $15 Million. #shame #nokings #protests #wasteofmoney

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Estimated attendance in the MILLIONS for NO KINGs DAY today - protests in over 2000 locations with citizens against this regime out and loud. Protests include the estimated $60 million cost of the tank parade while our social network is gutted. #protests #nokings #nationwide #60millionparade

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Thousands of individual NO KINGS 🤴🖕Protests are happening all across America today with early estimates pushing the numbers into the millions of citizens and lets be clear, red and blue states are all on the streets, this is about democracy survival. #protests #nokings #today #millions #citizens

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Thousands of citizens are expected at today's NO KINGS 🤴🖕 event in Reno, NV today. Other rallies in other Nevada cities are also expected. #nokings #NEVADA #protests #capital #vegas #reno mynews4.com/news/local/o...

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What the writer thinks they are writing about is often not really what they are writing about. It's really an invitation through the looking glass of Alice. Remember that the rules are not real, they are convenient to a point and then they are inconvenient and sloppy. #writingcommunity #booksky

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On some level the writer knows the fluidity of the mind. As the writer improves in their craft, they become more able to swim in the fluidity of the mindstate. The idea that when we dream everything is possible and indeed likely exists. That is powerful and dangerous. #writingcommunity #booksky

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When reading a good book, the reader will yell if events or person in their vicinity penetrates the veil to yank them out of their engaged mindscape. They want to be inside the four dimensional experience of the reading mindscape free of the rules of daily life. #writingcommunity #booksky #fourdim

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In most great novels the writer moves from representational illusions into the abstract potentials for a deeper spiritual and emotional experience. Invisible time allows the reader to move through a novel experience. It is within the fourth dimension. #writingcommunity #booksky #reading

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The writer uses representational illusions to begin the mental dance with the reader. If they are a good writer, the reader will trust and come along eager to see what kind of mental dance the writer is dancing. The writer leads this dance, the reader follows. #writingcommunity #booksky #illusions

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The reader accepts the grounding concepts of representational structure the writer offers early in a novel. But nothing is as it seems. This is the mindscape where everything described is actually illusion. The representation is a gesture, a clue. #writingcommunity #booksky #writingconcepts

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In the novel you are writing, there is likely a strong attempt to orchestrate your novel toward representational structures. Example: Your character is in a named place, in an understood building, engaged in common activities. These are grounding concepts. #writingcommunity #booksky #writinglife

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In this view of the writer/reader experience, time becomes a fluid construct that the reader can easily manipulate as the rules are suspended. They are not required to retain hardened reality. Fictional reality is created and enjoyed. Reading escapes the rules. #writingcommunity #booksky #rules

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This feature of the mind allows the reader to slip the anchor of where they position their awareness. In physics this is associated with 'the observer' changing position. For the duration of the continuous read, the reader is elsewhere elsewhen in the slip. #writingcommunity #booksky #fourthdim

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When reading and the reader notices alterations in how they experience time (the 4th dimension) the reader recognizes they are untethered from the constraints on their perceptions and thinking. The rules are suspended. Structure is the artifice or illusion in the landscape. #writingcommunity #books

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Readers pass through a window or door looking for a new experience inside the mind of another human who is also inside the mentalscape with them. Reality within the mind creates illusions of structure to use as a stage on which to describe an event. #writingcommunity #booksky #fourthdimensional

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Most people notice, when they read a book, they feel transported and in that mental movement they are freed from the poverty of written rules. Inside the mental landscape all things are possible and exist and this is part of what readers seek out in novels. #writingcommunity #booksky #novels

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Humans occasionally wake up and look around uncertain of their location and even of their relative age. It takes a moment before they 'come into themselves' to position their awareness in their current perception of reality. This is a product of their mentalscape. #writingcommunity #booksky

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Writer's write in the mental landscape of the human mind. That means that readers are inside their mental landscape while reading. Within the mind, time is an elastic coordinate. We experience this in our dreaming states where we become aware of surreal conditions. #writingcommunity #booksky

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In our daily life we accept 'reality' in three dimensions. The introduction of the 4th dimension typically encounters mental resistance. Einstein suggested events are described as 3 spatial coordinates plus the fourth dimension of time. #writingcommunity #booksky #fourthdimensionwriting

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Let's talk a little bit about the human mind today. We all have experiences where we experience the elasticity of our mind. This may take place waiting in line somewhere and we drift and when we drift away from our mental mooring. Our perceptions change. #writingcommunity #booksky #mentalscape

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Good Morning Blue Sky people - it's a full-on writing day for me. What's in your agenda for the day? I do want to caution folks to be extra careful today as our current political zit-fest is all swelled out there and under pressure. It's NO KINGs day.🤴🖕 Express your feelings.

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