Worried about whether you are really a writer? Well fret no more – you are, indeed, a member of that illustrious breed. And here’s why.
You can call yourself a writer if you write. Even if it’s just a shopping list. A writer is someone who writes – period.
I think that the confusion as to whether one is a writer or not arises when adjectives come into play.
Some people are good writers, some are casual writers, some are prolific writers, some are professional writers, some are crap writers, some are hyperbolic writers and some are critical writers. At the end of the day, though – they are all writers.
So rest easy. Even if you have never written a word in your life (and that would be a massive stretch) all that it would take for you to become a writer right now is to click on Comment below this post and say hi.
Looking forward to chatting to you.
Crap writer 😂😂😂😂😂 you mentioned me??
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And how is that funny?
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Your frankness about it. No false flatter. And also that I love to laugh at myself
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Ah, that’s okay then. 🙂
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Why, what did you think??
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That’s a difficult question.
I get the joke. I get your humility. I get that you’re probably comparing yourself to Tagore (unfair). I get the shared part of the joke (that we are both pretending that the ‘crap writer’ is you). I get the nice feeling one gets when one thinks one is being referred to in someone’s post. I get the laughter pushing back the (habitual) bitterness (that you hope people will see beyond (I do) to the real you (that you’ve almost (but not quite) lost sight of)) for a (shared) moment. I get the nuances of despair and hope fighting in you. And I also get the sense that I’m going to far now. 😀
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😂😂😂
I’ll just point out the wrongs
I don’t compare myself to Tagore. He is different.
And recently going through a writer’s block and the shitty stuff that I am writting, I am not what I used to be. It’s lost and I’m trying to accept it.
*Too 😂😂
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Remember the pendulum. What seems lost will inevitably return. What is with you will inevitably be lost.
Here we go ’round the mulberry bush. 🙂
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Don’t be angry or upset, but I have stopped believing in the pendulum. One of my favorite teachers was disrespected badly today…. It’s about the shitty school authority…. People don’t always get what they deserve….. Maybe karma is an illusion, so that people don’t do anything wrong
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Sometime the system doesn’t work very well – I experience that myself. But most of the time it gives a good enough framework to get by. But sorry to hear about your teacher. Is respect important to you?
That pendulum thing – it’s just an idea. Stuff happens and we try to make sense of it so we try to fit it into some theory or another. Karma is the same – just a theory we use to try to make sense of the world.
It puzzles me sometimes that I have such a good life. You?
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Respect…. I haven’t thought about it. But I can’t bare it when someone is insulted without a reason…. He didn’t deserve it…. He was the one who made me believe in myself. Then after I got promoted to class 11, I lost the connection, and now, here I am.
Yes.
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(‘can’t bare it’ should be ‘can’t bear it’ (unless you are talking about nudity))
Perhaps he was unkind to his teacher in a previous birth? I dunno. But yes – it feels upsetting.
What’s for dinner? (blatant change of subject because I don’t know what else to say on that subject)
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Yes. Can’t bear.
Party at our place. Lots of food. Lots and lots. What about you?
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Potato salad, risotto with red bean sauce and a bit of a salad followed by an orange and some grapes (and a movie (The Manchurian Candidate)). Quite a nice evening in fact. 🙂
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I can guess. Lovely!!
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It was. And then all day yesterday in the capital, and now a trip to the supermarket. Living the dream! 😀
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Nice!! Enjoy!!!
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I did. What are you doing today? 🙂
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Returned from Santiniketan this afternoon. Missing the people with whom we went. Unpacking and preparing for school. Puja coming!!
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Puja? *interested face* What kind?
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Durga Puja!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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You’re a bit early. 🙂
Durga Puja 2017 will begin on
Tuesday, 26 September
and ends on
Saturday, 30 September
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Aha. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Tomorrow is Mahalaya!!!! Search that now! It’s the beginning of Devi pakhhya. The time of the goddess!
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Hahaha – okay. Searching …
Here we go:
Pitru Paksha 2017 in Assam began on
Tuesday, 5 September
and ends on
Tuesday, 19 September.
Oh, this is so complicated!
Does it mean a lot to you? 🙂
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I don’t know anything about Pitru Paksha. Tomorrow is Mahalaya. AND YES IF MEANS A LOT! A LOT!!
You should come to Kolkata once, during Durga Puja. You’ll understand what I mean. It’s the pandel hopping, food, the puja, the crowd, the decoration, the drums, the people dressed in their new clothes. It’s just amazing. There is a smell of flowers and sweat and perfume and new clothes.
But unfortunately, I won’t be in town since Shasthi 😫😫😫😫😫
I’m going to Sikkim because my parents want to go and they won’t have enough holidays to go later. 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
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I have never seen you so enthusiastic over something! Wonderful. You must be heartbroken to have to be in Sikkum. They don’t celebrate it there?
Sounds more like a carnival than a religious occasion. Like Holi (without the colours)?
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I love the mountains though. The breeze, the dagger like cold gusts of wind, the smell of raw earth and the leaves. But we could go there any other time if not for time constraints 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
No, they don’t celebrate like we do. It’s never the Bengali thing anywhere else. Not the smell, not the noise, not the crowd, not the decorations. Yes, it’s like holi, with colours everywhere, but not on you.
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That sounds heavenly. And if it wasn’t for it being late at night and me feeling tired, I would be waxing as lyrical as you over it. 🙂
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Ha! Mountains are heaven!
Like an idiot, I slept through Mahalaya 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
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Tragedy!! (when you lose control and you’ve got no soul)
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I slept like a dead duck! No dreams?!!
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I dreamt of Donny Osmond last night.
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I had a good sleep… But missed Mahalaya 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
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I got that message. Loud and clear. 😉 You’ll catch it next year. 🙂
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I heard a part, just now. Bless the internet
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Yes!! *jumps up and down and pumps fists (in his mind)*
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Calm down, calm down!!
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Don’t know if you’ll find my comment pedantic, helpful, or perhaps even both, but the descriptive words in your post are adjectives (words to describe the noun ‘writer’) rather than adverbs. 😊
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Adjectives. Ah.
Okay. 🙂
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I must’ve come across as a know-it-all. Oh well. 😉
By learning English systematically as a foreign language, I got to know the parts of speech like the back of my hand. Studying linguistics in university also helped me to dissect language. 😊
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No, no – I thought I was going to use verbs. Must have changed my mind at the last minute and then forgot to change the word. It’s good that people like you look out for people like me. 🙂
Anyhoo – I made the change to the post so this conversation makes little sense now. 😉
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Ah … why didn’t you say so in the first place? 😉
What are friends for, if not to slap you on the wrist for using the wrong words? 😉
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I can’t imagine why it took me so long to say that.
Friends are for … actually, I’m not sure because I have little evidence. I’ll go with what you said. 🙂
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Strange that they didn’t include what I said in this song …
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Yeah, no – I can’t listen to that song until that woman fixes her teeth!
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Who’s being vain? Oh wait, I shouldn’t be a hypocrite. 😉 I had braces as a pre-teen even though my teeth were more or less straight.
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Vain? No, not really. Just allergic to odd teeth.
Why?!
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Never heard of an allergy to odd teeth before. In that case, I’m allergic to mullets (the hairstyle). My parents wanted to turn my almost perfect set of teeth into a perfect set of teeth (presumably so that I would win a beauty contest? Just kidding).
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Parents, huh! They can be such a delight. 🙂
Ever wonder what English born parents would have done to you?
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Yep, my parents are delightful. 😊
From time to time. Perhaps they would’ve strongly urged me to move out the day after I turned eighteen. I doubt they would’ve taught me the importance of self-discipline, at least not nearly as well as my non English-born parents did. What did your parents do to you? 😉
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Interesting comments. Is that how you see them? 🙂
Mine let me be what I wanted to be – not in the sense of giving me enough rope to hang myself but in the sense of giving me shelter, food, whatever words came natural and then letting me go when I wanted to go.
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I see my parents as an odd couple that is a total mismatch in terms of intelligence level. Won’t say more about that. 😐
It sounds like yours raised you well. Who’s the wittier one of the two? Haha – I smiled at your rope reference. 😁
Mine also let me be what I wanted to be. I feel so fortunate that they almost never imposed their expectations on me. As long as I did well in school, they were happy, and that was easy for me.
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I won’t ask then. 🙂
Neither of them is particularly witty. I suppose my mum at a pinch.
An easy childhood? No scars! Wow – that’s probably saved you a fortune in therapy. 🙂
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Much appreciated. 😊
Oh? How’d you get so witty then?
Yes, more or less easy, but … won’t get into it here. Just relatively minor stuff.
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🙂
Monty Python’s Flying Circus.
Okay.
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Can’t just be Monty Python. 😉
I think we should all have therapy at some point in our lives.
By the way, I’m striving to clean up my language a bit.
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Okay, maybe Spike Milligan and Not the Nine O’Clock News as well. 🙂
I disagree!
Why?
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Don’t know those two shows. 😃
Oh? That was rather vehement! 😉
I’ve been evaluating myself and come to the conclusion that my frequent use of profanity fuels anger and resentment.
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Comedy from when I was a kid. Old stuff. 🙂
Yeah – decided that the stigma would be too much (and made that decision as a teenager too).
I think that maybe profanity and anger etc. feed into one another. Or perhaps they encourage each other. Egging them on. 🙂
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Alles klar. 😊
Fair enough. I don’t think the stigma of seeing a therapist is as bad as it used to be.
Yes, profanity and anger egg each other on. No more Miss Potty Mouth. 😊
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🙂
Not so sure.
Jolly good show! 😀
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I’ve seen a couple of therapists for short periods of time (a few months or less) throughout my life. How useful these sessions were, I don’t know. It was the regular time commitment that put me off.
Weaning myself off profanity is going well so far (with only a few slip-ups here and there).
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I find that profanity use changes according to the company one keeps. 🙂
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Absolutely – getting away from the industry of my former employer helps. That field is famous for its regular use of vulgar language.
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You have a job to go to?
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Not yet. Someone contacted me to arrange an interview just this morning.
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Good Luck!! 😀
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Thanks, Robert. It’s on Wednesday morning … I’m nervous! I’m gonna make a conscious effort to speak slowly so that my speech is not peppered with ‘um’, ‘ah’, and ‘you know’.
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Erm … okay! 😉
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You don’t have the tendency to talk to fast when you’re nervous?
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Did just now when I had a call with a guy at work. Garbled is not the half of it!
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Yikes! I’ll bet you’re glad to have that call over with.
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It’s like a dream of a forgotten dream by now. 🙂
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Dream? What dream? I forgot. 😉
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Exactly.
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Oops, I meant to say profanity fuels MY anger and resentment (not anyone else’s, as far as I know.)
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I read it as that (my, that is to say – your) actually. 🙂
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So you read my mind. 😀
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Well, I kind of extrapolated my own thinking really. I’m not sure I believe in mind reading. You?
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I’m open to the possibility of mind reading. Don’t thoughts have their own energy patterns? If so, we just need a device (for lack of a better word) that picks up these signals. Interpreting them would be the more challenging part.
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A device? Like fMRI? Would have to be less intrusive than current models. Chips in the brain are the best bet. But I don’t see that one mind can pick up the thoughts of another mind unaided by either physical clues or tech.
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Yeah, via chips in the brain. Hmm … not sure whether mind-reading is possible without the aid of technology.
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Chips are better in the mouth, with salt and vinegar.
Sleeping in a mo – goodnight! 🙂
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You must be referring to CRISPS. 😉
Oyasumi nasai. ☺
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No – chips. Fried potatoes. 🙂
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Ahhh … pommes frites. I was thinking of salt and vinegar crisps. 😊
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Now you have me thinking about them too!
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So easy to steer someone else’s thoughts, huh? 😉
Oh, and don’t think about the polar bear (yep, my old bear joke again).
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Oh, I ain’t thought about that since, so maybe not so easy. 🙂
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Maybe it’s easy to get one’s attention, but challenging to keep it. 😊
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Maybe that. Just a bit frantic at the moment because work and home and writing are fighting for my time and attention and … well, you know.
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I empathise with you, Robert. I’m also feeling pressured, with the seemingly endless list of things that need to be done before the move. Bon courage, mon ami.
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And the same to you. It’ll all come right in the end. 🙂
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Arigato gozaimasu. Yep, all will turn out fine. (Gotta make sure we get all the right documentation and endorsements for my felines … don’t want them to be held in quarantine!)
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Your fine, feline friends (for no other reason than it sounds nice to me). 🙂
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My feline friends are awfully finicky. 🐈🐈
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Hey, thanks for that. 🙂
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Yep I am a writer 👏🏻
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You certainly are, Lucy. 🙂
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Reblogged this on GEORGE L THOMAS.
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Good show! 🙂
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Hi, I hope you didn’t mind. This post just makes a lot of sense and it’s very relatable. 😀
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Don’t mind at all. Pleased, in fact. Glad it helps someone. 🙂
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Hi
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Hiya, Shaudene.
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🙂 Thank you for making me feel like a writer, even though I have no idea what I’m doing.
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You’re welcome.
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Great post! Sometimes, I think we just need a little encouragement that yes, we are writers, even if we’re not writing at the level we want to be.
By the way, you might be interested in our Writers Club. It’s designed to help writers in the “writing aspects” they might not enjoy, offering free editing, marketing, and other services so they can get back to writing (even if it’s just writing comments on other people’s posts). 🙂
https://www.patreon.com/AWritersPath
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Thanks, Andrea – it’s good to get that kind of feedback. Glad to be able to encourage a fellow writer. 🙂
I am interested in any Writing Club, but before I visit let me ask you a question – how open are you members to publishing their work in book form?
Hope your day is going well. There’s snow on the ground here in the UK and they’ve started to play Christmas songs on the radio – I’ll let you to draw your own conclusions about whether that constitutes a good day in the frozen wastes of Northern England. 😉
Kindness – Robert.
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It sounds lovely…but we’re short on snow in the Pacific Nw, as usual. 🙂
Most members do write their own stories in book form and use the club to help with certain aspects–query critiques, blurb editing, book promotion, etc. Those who self publish may be drawn more to the free editing while those who are aiming for the traditional route like the query critiques, and the writing articles and beta reader match-ups can help everyone. The site is free to visit and would probably explain your questions in further detail, but if you have any further inquiries, let me know.
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That sounds ace (even the lack of snow) – I’ll be over after I’ve slept (aka tomorrow).
Laters.
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Enjoyed this, thanks for sharing! 🙂
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This post is getting plenty of attention right now – not sure why. Glad you liked it though. 🙂
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I feel it gives encouragement for others and it may be touching them based on how they are feeling with their writing. It’s great to read something that gives back 🙂
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*blushes, smiles and says …* Aw! Thanks! *… and then smiles again* 🙂
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