Entries tagged with writer's block

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Writer's Block: Practically amazing

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I'd want to be able to pull a healthy, delicious meal from the oven or refrigerator at any time it was needed.

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Writer's Block: Say goodbye to Kansas, Dorothy

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As soon as I read the question I felt rage surging through me, and could feel my body coil to attack the people standing around me.

Wolfling and

uncrowned_king not real?

All the struggles and triumphs of 46 years nothing more than a dream?

Would I be 46 years old with no actual experience of life, just a mirage?

I have to think that if I were much younger it wouldn't affect me quite as intensely. If I were a teen, or perhaps into my early twenties, it wouldn't be so bad. But I've worked too hard to get where I am today -- and there are too many years behind me to make up for if it turns out to all have been a lie.

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Writer's Block: Beep, Bop, Boop

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My first video game was the first video game: Pong.

I didn't love it or hate it; it was fun, but mostly it was a novelty.

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Writer's Block: Hit the road, Cupid

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Eliminate a holiday devoted to the celebration of romantic love?
NEVER!

I know it's commercialized. I know it can hurt like hell.
But I still think it's a wonderful idea.

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Writer's Block: Almost like a song

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Fierce, sexy, powerful, romantic, playful, spiritual

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Writer's Block: Everyday I write the book

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I'd actually been thinking about this. I'd call it "Unspeakable" because it would be about all things I haven't felt free to share most of my life.

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Writer's Block: Beware the green-eyed monster!

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I like hearing about ex's. I find that the tone with which a person speaks about their previous relationships, and the way they assign responbility for how things ended up, says a lot about them.

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Writer's Block: A latte for every day of the year

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Pay down some debt and take Wolfling on a big adventure vacation.

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Writer's Block: Neat, sweet, groovy songs

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The Carpenters were my favorite artists as a child. I was in the first or second grade when our choir teacher taught us "Sing" and played their recording of it, and I fell in love with Karen's voice. It certainly helped that our ranges matched, so it was easy to sing along.

"Close to You" and "Yesterday Once More" were my first grown-up (ie: not Disney) albums. I still remember receiving them as Christmas gifts from my parents, along with with a record player, when I was in the second grade.

I still enjoy the Carpenters and have most of their albums, and their songs are in regular rotation on my iPod.

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Writer's Block: Let me at em'

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I'm really not quite sure how to answer this.

It seems that most of the things I've done that others have called "brave" are things I've felt I had no choice but to do, or things that really were not that big a deal to me, while the things that *I* felt took the most courage other people take for granted or embrace eagerly: choosing to get pregnant, for example.

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Writer's Block: Please don't call it a comeback

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Can I bring back all the signers of the Constitution and get them to provide nationwide lectures about "Yes, we meant what we said"?

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Writer's Block: Should you choose to accept this mission

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If I told you, I'd have to kill you. . . .

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Writer's Block: Mind reader

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Single raw nerve

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Writer's Block: Best book ever!

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I'm not sure how much there is left to mine of these books, but each of them has a compelling story, sympathetic characters, and writing styles which really works for me.

My Big Three:
The Lions of Al-Rassan, by Guy Gavriel Kay
Beloved Exile, by Parke Godwin
Shards of Honor, by Lois McMaster Bujold

Others I Love:
Banewreaker/Godslayer, by Jacqueline Carey
Waiting for the Galactic Bus, by Parke Godwin
Lammas Night, Katherine Kurtz
Summer of the Red Wolf, by Morris West
Sailing to Sarantium and Lord of Emperors, by Guy Gavriel Kay
The River Why, by David James Duncan
The Moon Under Her Feet, by Clysta Kinstler

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Writer's Block: Go it alone

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I think it depends very much on where you are and how seriously you take popular media. I know people -- especially women -- who do feel this pressure, but I never have. Just yesterday at work I overheard a young woman talking about her upcoming marriage. She did express love for him, and said he was a wonderful person, but she also said that the decision was made in large part so she could have health insurance. Then she said that her parents were ecstatic when they heard the news and told her Grab him and marry him while you can! -- which made me shudder. I don't know why they were so fixated on her getting married, but it's the kind of comment I never heard from my own parents.

No one, within my family or outside of it, has ever suggested that there was something wrong with me or sad about my life because I was single and/or childless. Since my divorce, no one has asked me when I'll marry again. No one tries to set me up on dates because my social status is a problem that needs to be fixed. I've always been grateful for that.

Most of the adult single women I've known have expressed a deep desire for partnership, but it's almost always seemed to me more an expression of a desire for love, support and companionship rather than to meet some societal expectation. The one friend who comes to mind who has talked about being viewed as a failure because she was single by her family and the people around her, comes out of an entirely different culture than I did.

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Writer's Block: Accomplished

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The older I get, the harder it is to answer this question. I've enjoyed a range of satisfying accomplishments in my life, but it's hard to single out any one as a "proudest."

Although when it comes right down to it, I guess I'd have to say that I'm pretty darn proud of the job I've done raising Wolfling so far -- because it's required such stretching and growth in order to do it well.

But I'm also very proud of both my theses and the degrees that came with them. I'm proud of directing The Abdication and stage managing Hamlet, and the other shows I've done. I'm proud of being good at being Director of Marketing for the rocket company and helping it earn one of the best reputations in the field for customer service. I'm proud of winning two top awards at FormerMyCo that admins don't usually get. I'm proud of persisting in my priestess training and reaching the point I have. I'm proud of being self-supporting, and for continuing to strive to be better able to be a good material provider for myself.

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Writer's Block: Til death to us part

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Yes, I would -- and I would hope that there is at least one person in the world who would do the same for me.

I strongly believe that quality of life is more important than length of life, and it is the right of the person who lives that life to make the decision regarding when continuing to live is no longer desireable.

I believe there should be processes in place to safeguard the vulnerable but also to honor and make easier the way for those who are making the right choice for themselves. No one should have to endure death by gunshot or poison or starvation because the law would punish someone who helped them to a gentler and more dignified ending. No one should have to endure the trauma of inflicting an ugly death on a loved one in order to spare them further suffering.

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Writer's Block: Relive in the moment

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Any hour with Him.

And I wouldn't change a blessed thing.

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Writer's Block: What is your muse?

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Thinking about how others will react to my fiction is the worst thing I can do to myself when writing. I completely shut down the creative process on my novel because I stopped writing from my gut and started thinking too much about appealing to a hypothetical future audience.

Getting input from friends didn't help either. At first it was fun engaging my friends in the story, seeing their enthusiasm about it, enjoying their ideas -- but over time I found myself struggling with one or two of them about their interpretations of certain characters.

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Writer's Block: The one that got away

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No one is going to be surprised by my response to this. . .

I believe in the concept of a soulmate because of my experiences with

uncrowned_king. I have no idea if everyone has a soulmate or not; I only know that I do.

Prior to Lohain, I did not believe in soulmates. Instead I focused on the wonderful richness of having intense and meaningful love relationships with a variety of different people. I was polyamorous and happy with it (once I figured out what polyamory was!).

Being with Lohain changed that. I never made a conscious decision to stop being polyamorous -- and maybe other things might have turned out to be less painful if I'd had that self-awareness. Instead, over time, without fully being aware of it, I turned more and more to him because what I shared with him was simply 'more' than even the wonderful things I was experiencing with LB.

Even now, more than two and a half years after his death, having pretty much come through my grieving process, I have a hard time imagining love, romance or sexual intimacy with anyone else -- even though sometimes I long for it more than I can say.

Because of what I experienced with

uncrowned_king, I have a hard time imagining that one's soulmate "gets away." Part of what was so extrordinary with him was the mutuality of it. The only way I can imagine someone being able to walk away from that would be if they were already married or in some other way bound by a lifelong oath and were not free to fully engage in the relationship.