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Especially.
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Evergreen.
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Gonna be a lot of Aerosmith remixes at dances.
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I think the same thing when my neck joint gets achey.
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If I had a dollar for every time I've told the DM "It's not meta gaming, my character is just smart" I'd be set for life.
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So that's what I'm going to do. Fear keeps so many people from doing so many things. And it took me long enough to realize that.
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And every attempt I made to write without putting myself on the page failed, because I was scared that they would be words I still didn't want to read.
So I need to change that. I need to approach my writing as fearlessly as I can. Or use that fear to drive forward regardless.
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You're taking everything inside of you, everything that you are, and you are holding it up to the world. And I had spent so, so long closing myself off to world like a little roly-poly that I couldn't let myself unroll in my own writing.
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So I sat down to try to find the answer.
And it took a long time.
It was because I was afraid.
I was afraid of what would spill out onto that page because what will spill out onto that page would be me. The act of writing is something so incredibly vulnerable.
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As of late I have been finding myself in a mindset where I want to write, desperately, but something keeps stopping me in a way I was never stopped before. When I used to be able to write so freely and easily I am now stopped at the first word. And that frustrated me. Why can't I write anymore?
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And then things happened, and I started shutting down. The me that could write wrote things I didn't want to read. And I just...stopped.
I stopped for a long time.
There would be brief sparks where I would put pen to paper, or, more accurately, key to screen, but they were few and far between.
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As I got older I was able to develop more of my own voice in writing, and started dovetailing over to short-form prosetry. I started learning how to put myself into words, crafting things that, when I read them back, felt like myself. I even read some aloud to groups in open mic nights.
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The important thing is that I enjoyed writing them. The act of creation was fun. There were no inhibitions on the subject matter, no concerns towards the quality of the plot, no real regards given to the motivations of the characters. The stories existed simply because I wanted them to.
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As a kid I would craft short stories of fantastical adventures surrounding a fictional self-insert character getting into light, humorous adventures. There was nothing particularly good about any of them, they were just fun to do, and allowed my overactive imagination some sort of outlet.
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Very jealous of this. Incredible books!
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Would not be surprised in the slightest if multiple companies/users share nodes and a random heavy user eats up all the resources on the node periodically and tanks things for the other users on it.
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I mean, sucks to be that guy. Hope it all works out for him.
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"And so I updated my AIM profile and buddy icon, which was the style at the time."