July 2023
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Reality checking on a story can be a bummer. My main character is going to be taking a bus from one city to another. I had envisioned him going to a nice clean bus station getting a ticket, riding on a nice clean bus, on time. End of trip. From looking online, it looks like
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I don’t like where we are going, Qoute from a Reddit sub. “I have a hard time believing in a tomorrow where I’m not being at least as exploited as today.
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Gentrification sucks. At least when you’re on a pension as I am. I want to put a few words about it in the book, but the main character is not in a place where it would be appropriate to bring the subject up. I probably won’t get much writing done today as the temperature and
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The writing is going slowly. It’s hard for me to get back into the swing of it. I don’t think that if I finish the novel, it will ever be published. But I will have finally finished one. That will be pretty satisfying. The Gorilla in the room? Stephen King. If I ever did get
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Science Fiction is my favorite genre. When I was a teenager, I wrote short Science Fiction stories and sent them off to magazines. They got rejected. Now that I am much older, I can see why. I stopped writing, not because of the rejections, but because Life happened. Three years ago, I decided to write
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Let me introduce myself. I’m 76 years old. I had worked mostly in service jobs. I did have a few years working as a computer support person on a mainframe. I am retired now, and glad of it. My last job was hell. I’ll be using this blog to tell you about my writing and
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