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And cut programs for seniors, vets, and people with serious medical needs to justify more tax cuts for billionaires. For an apartheidist, he hates everyone pretty equally.
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Who would have seen that coming? (sarcasm)
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I've been there. Virtual hugs to you. I found myself missing my Mom last night b/c she made xmas magical but she was the same mom who slept in and let toddler me wander the neighborhood...and later made me the parentified oldest child...things are complicated. No one goes no contact w/o reason.
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Wowie! What a poem. Thanks for sharing.
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I write first drafts in pen on paper, usually composition notebooks then type them up later. I find I can sink into the "flow" so much better that way. Plus, I can cross something out in pen and still go back and decide later it was pretty good but the delete key is forever.
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"It's a fucking bar cart! And it costs $1,400! What are we, on a fucking Emirates flight? Do I get a lock of hair from Truman Capote's cadaver for free with this when I buy it?" LOL!
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this!!!
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He's many things that I won't say right here.
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When I taught "comp," I prepped for teaching essays by printing them out and marking them up. I encouraged my students to learn the same way, making a copy or marking their text books in pencil that could be erased. Some thought I was "mad" but it helps you focus, read more closely.
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Wow! Congrats!
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Nice!
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For the week prior to Christmas, I'm posting some of my favorite passages from Dickens' A Christmas Carol. This story embodies one of my favorite definitions of "literature," Ezra Pound's, as "news that stays news."
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Thanks for the follow!
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Cool, cool. (?!)
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It's not the cow manure that smells, here.
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Vaccines do not cause autism. And autism is not a disease.
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Maybe if the GOP hadn't obstructed every single attempt by the Democrats and Independents to pass universal healthcare over the last almost 100 years, we would have that by now. It's not "the government" but the GOP that is to blame.
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Wow, Utah got even weirder since I left. I'm a "DNA Mormon," descended from some of the first settlers in the territory but even steeped in that stew as I grew up, I think this is pretty dang weird.
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May we all live long enough to see justice served.
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My MC wants to move out of the cramped Craftsman cottage that she shares with her parents, her grandfather, and her wife and new baby into her own new home...but at the same time she doesn't.
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Do both! Be a fabulous fabulist!
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For the week prior to Christmas, I'm posting some of my favorite passages from Dickens' A Christmas Carol. This story embodies one of my favorite definitions of "literature," Ezra Pound's, as "news that stays news."
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Thank you for the recommendations! Following! Weirdly enough, I had the word "Scottoline" circulating around my brain today for no real reason and then I saw this. Synchronicity as Jung says? Coincidence? I'm going to check out her work, no matter which.
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Synopses are daunting! I always find this article by Jessica Abel on the "Soren Method" useful, for myself and my clients. The Soren method makes synopsis writing less daunting and more fun.
jessicaabel.com/this-happene...
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I think I struggle to write any characters who *aren't* neuro-divergent in some way. This is why I went down a deep rabbit hole of personality types, to try to understand what others are like...to assemble a cast of characters for my first novel in progress.
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You had me at "With the most engaging memoir title since Nick Flynn’s 'Another Bulls—t Night in Suck City.'" But seriously, I'm going to read Waite's memoir. Seems like a good follow up to You Could Make This Place Beautiful by Maggie Smith, which I just finished.
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And congrats on finishing that first draft! That's something to celebrate!
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When/where in the writing process did you find you lost the "magic"? Go back to that point and ponder what happened. Maybe you made a choice that you felt you "should" make but it didn't feel authentic and it compounded from there?
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I would choose reading! To be fair, though, there was hunting, lots of hunting, if you were a dude or lots of needlework if you were a lady person.
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I like how George Saunders describes "I couldn't help but notice" moments as drivers of suspense. Things that the narrator or characters mention and then move on from, all the while setting off a little ripple in the readers' minds that makes them curious to know more about whatever was mentioned.
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Active voice is your friend!
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Ermergerd! I needed that!
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Elections have consequences. How many believed it when T lied about not pushing for a national ban (a flip flop from his erstwhile vow to push for the ban), just took that statement at face value and thought it would be A-ok to vote for him and the GOP, or to just not vote at all??
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"Inaction is a weapon of mass destruction." - Faithless
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And Thiel!
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I guess this explains why those of us who did not/do not have this fear as the foundation of our personalities have never been able to comprehend what the appeal IS of the orange menace. We're not looking for him to "hurt the right people."
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I hold Thiel in more regard than he holds me, that's for sure. I respect his basic human rights and he wants to take away mine, and all womens,' including our right to VOTE.
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I often recommend Dr. Anna Salter's book Predators to people who sincerely want to learn more about how to protect themselves and their kids from SA predators. Salter brings the data and the anecdotal evidence that prove you are more likely to be SA'd by a religious figure than a drag queen.
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THIS. GOP policies on the economy only work for the 1%. They profit off of others' losses.
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Correct. We will see if the actual government representatives we depend on to represent us will do so or if they'll fall into line and do the bidding of billionaires. Not holding my breath for them to do the right thing, sadly; but it is *possible.*
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I in no way implied or stated that autism is a disease. I am actually autistic. One can receive accommodation or treatment for some associated issues, such as sensory issues, without treating autism itself as a disease to be cured.
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And dying of polio!!!
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Evil. These people are evil in a way that defies understanding or belief. They're evil in a way that almost no one would tolerate in real life but somehow people support them as "entertainment-politics." That's the simplest explanation.
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Why would you vote for a person whom you "have to trust...won't do what he says he will"?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?
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Not a "spot." This guy owns a large portion of the GOP and it will do HIS bidding.
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This is the face of a man who wants to take away womens' right to vote. This is the face of a man who thinks the worst things to ever happen to America are 1) womens' suffrage 2) FDR's New Deal. This is a major shareholder in the new GOP.