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I’m giving up on the book.
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A friend of mine is in Facebook jail. I have been in Facebook jail. In case you didn’t know, Facebook jail means that you posted something on Facebook that doesn’t meet their “Community Guidelines.” They then take away your ability to post anything new for a specified period. The posts that put me in FB
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From what I can gather online there are two kinds of writers. Pantsers and Plotters. A Panster makes the story up as he goes along. A Plotter writes down all the events in the story before he writes a word of the story. I’m a Pantser. The reason I mention this is that my story
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I started this Journal with the idea that maybe somebody out there might be interested in my adventures in writing. I can see now that’s not the case. It looks to me that this Journal is just an ego trip. But who knows? Maybe I’ll finish the book, maybe I’ll sell a few copies, and
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Sometimes it’s necessary to include politics as part of the story. I do not like to include politics in a story, but sometimes the story wants it. Politics is a nasty business full of nasty people. There are some nice people in politics. Very few of them though. You can usually tell a writer’s politics
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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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