you’re my audience
vonnegut’s open window
make love to the world
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Guilt or Pessimism?
Maybe I’m just in a mood today, but this daily prompt is unlovely. I dwell on all the negatives in the past. Guilt and shame and regret. Rarely do I dwell on the good old days without feeling bad about where they went. When contemplating the future, I am frequently pessimistic. Sometimes I get excited…
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The clothes make the (hu)man (pt 2)
Okay, my first swing at this prompt devlolved into a screed about not letting your ideal writing conditions become an excuse for not writing, and I need to revisit and refine that post a bit, but also I recognize that I didn’t answer the question, really. I just did the edgy thing of rejecting it……
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The clothes make the (hu)man (pt 1)
There’s a line used in classist repression: “the clothes make the man.” Okay, maybe that is unfair, it is about more than repression. The idea is that a convincing wardrobe can do a lot for a person, make them feel better, and make them look better. Clothes can in fact make the difference in many…
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You’ve Been Everywhere, I’ve Been Brokedown There
This is the first time I’ve tried the daily prompt. No promises that this will be worth reading or that I’ll ever do it again. I commented on a friend’s post (linked below) that she skipped a few cities that I had heard her mention in the past. I realzied that was likely a deliberate…
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New York Times Faces Quiz
I consume a lot of online text news media. Most of it is via emailed newsletters (strongly recommend NYT’s ‘The Morning’). Sometimes these newsletters have pictures of people, and sometimes those pictures have captions telling you who they are. Once a year, the New York Times does a faces quiz, to see if you can…
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Update to NaNoWriMo 2023
An update to my earlier post. Well, that was a month. I wrote 28,310 words, all on the Freewrite. I wrote every day in November (except for the 1st, since the Freewrite hadn’t arrived yet). I was supported by all of my partners, who had to give up at least little bits of our time…
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Proforma ‘Profound’ Profanity
Those who know me in meat space know that I cuss a lot. I cuss like I’ve completely repressed the memories of my grandmother making me take bites out of bars of Ivory soap. I cuss like a sailor (actually I am a sailor and you cuss like me). I cuss like a person who…
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The pain of writing about my finger
For years, I have wanted to publish a single comprehensive narrative that explained the whole story behind my finger (the one I don’t have anymore). Today I finally sat down to write it up, to be a permanent page on this site (similar to The Drillbit Story I have already posted). And do you know…
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Hello World!
Welcome back. The last time I faffed about with a website was 2016, which was after my last domain expired but while I was thinking about reengaging with my own platform. And here I am. Thanks to all y’all who have supported and encouraged me to do my thing. I have paid up front for…
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NaNoWriMo 2023
NaNoWriMo is National Novel Writing Month. The whole premise is that you write a 50,000 word novel in the month of November. The point of the practice is to get you churning out words. Sit your ass down and write. To hit the goal, you generally aren’t editing or revising much, and probably any drafting…
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