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Revenge

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Day 2 You are here You sit at the window, poetry book in hand, watching the birds outside your window. You will not listen to the news. You will not engage in the stress of the day. You will sit, feed birds, make tea (because…you are in a coffee tastes like poop phase where you buy a ridiculous amount of  tea because you think it will stick and you will never drink coffee again because you are…

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Revenge

Day 1 Remember. You are a survivor. Remember this.

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Just keep writing

One word, two words, three words …

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#10 April 6,2024

I could start over, but that really changes nothing. This time I am recommitting to my year of less. Not just less of everything and more writing, but less of everything and being ok with lower writing expectations, because I work, and have obligations. So there I am, and it is ok. A lot of writers have had this dilemma. So here I go again…

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#9 Jan 9, 2024

Winter comes here and i just sleep

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#8 Jan 8, 2024

Catching up with hopes and dreams.. So what happens if I just work and sleep? Then, I guess, I just work and sleep, and then catch up.

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#7 Jan 7, 2024

Dreams are like this sometimes.

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#6 Jan 6, 2024

here and there one more day, showing up to the page.

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#5 Jan 5, 2024

Not fair Who would win in a fight, Karma or Dharma? In other words, is trying to do the right thing enough? Unfortunately, it has to be. Sometimes I do not get to write, but oh well, keep going.

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#4 Jan 4, 2024

Stay on target. It is okay to just stare at the paper, right? asking for a friend.

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#3 Jan 3, 2024

A kind of beginning… In the beginning no one knows it’s the beginning. It’s hard to know when to really begin the story, so just start somewhere and then write the prequel.

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#2 Jan 2, 2024

Or there is Tuesday ,,,, Just keep going. It just occurred to me that part of the benefit of morning pages (from Julia Cameron’s book, “The Artist’s Way”), is the discipline of concentrating for 30 min at a time while writing the morning pages. Maybe that is obvious to everyone else, or maybe I am just really bad at keeping my head in the moment, but I kind of doubt it. Because if you like…

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