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Cheerygirl
Thank you Cheerygirl, and many more thanks for your calling cards.
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johnmacnab
on November 6, 2010 at 5:45 AM
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Has it only been 2 Months?
posted by
Cheerygirl
on November 5, 2010 at 6:16 PM
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Pat_B
Or perhaps a lifetime nightmare? I can certainly identify with the isolation, only I've always called it observation. Luckily for me, my writing has always been a hobby and I haven't identified my being with it, but it has always been niggling at me.
posted by
johnmacnab
on November 5, 2010 at 8:34 AM
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BC-A
You have a point BC-A. It will be written anyway. In the past the pages would clog up drawers and filing cabinets. Now they clog up computer files, but they will still be written. Thank you for the welcome back.
posted by
johnmacnab
on November 5, 2010 at 7:35 AM
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sam444
Thanks for the kind thoughts sam444. I'm in a 'sensible' cycle at the moment and beginning to feel good. You may have something there regarding the desire to be published. I've always thought it was a desire to 'make something of yourself,' as my old mother would say. Personally I would love to 'make something of myself' but I couldn't care less if nobody else knew, hence the pen names I suppose.
posted by
johnmacnab
on November 5, 2010 at 7:24 AM
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Who would elect to be a writer?
Someone silly enough to think that fame and fortune would follow quickly, that others would hang on your every word, that teachers would praise your prose and go into ecstasy over your poetry: that's who would choose the profession. Someone young and stupid. I think the writing bug bites you, under its feverish effects you mistakenly let someone see the work, and they praise it. Forever afterward, you're cursed with hope and ideas, and spend your days isolated from society only to fantasize about it. Or, this may all be a dream.
posted by
Pat_B
on November 5, 2010 at 6:48 AM
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majroj
If you are a writing cissy majroj, colour me a double double cissy. - and call out the Metropolitan Police. Great to hear from you again.
posted by
johnmacnab
on November 5, 2010 at 6:44 AM
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j ü He wrote it anyway sir. And you sir, welcome back. love. BC-A, Bill’s ®st
posted by
BC-A
on November 4, 2010 at 9:27 PM
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I think the writing part is fine, it's the overwhelming desire to be published that separates the writer from the author! Just my humble thoughts! I hope as is well with you now! sam
posted by
sam444
on November 4, 2010 at 9:18 PM
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Calling off the RCMP, Mac's Back.
Writing is not for sissies. Like me.
posted by
majroj
on November 4, 2010 at 9:11 PM
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TAPS
Hi Taps. it's great to be back again - I'm glad you're pleased. What would definitely put me off about self-publishing would be the selling of it. I can't imagine myself standing up and spouting off to an audience - after all, writers are solitary people aren't they - at least this one is. I don't make that much money from Blogit, that I can remember.
posted by
johnmacnab
on November 4, 2010 at 5:36 PM
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Hey! Hey! It's fun to see you here again. Long ago I vowed I would never publish myself and have to do the selling of it, so here I am, still just having fun at Blogit. I make enough to pay for my membership so I feel blessed.
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TAPS.
on November 4, 2010 at 4:53 PM
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