Writing Challenges, Ideas, and Being Realistic

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As a writer, have you ever gotten in your own damn way? Maybe even not as a writer, but as a creative person? Over the past few years I have written four novels. Three are fully-fleshed out, while one was a side project I wanted to keep in development since I wrote it in pieces. … Continue reading Writing Challenges, Ideas, and Being Realistic

Final Caturday of 2021

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Next Saturday will be a whole new year. It'll probably take me 'til March to stop writing 2021. 😉 I don't celebrate New Year's Eve or New Year's Day. They don't feel like, "holidays" to me, not in the traditional sense of the word, and I realized yesterday that they never have. Do you feel … Continue reading Final Caturday of 2021

Happy WordPress Anniversary, Poison In Lethal Doses!

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Happy to have been here for nine years. Happier to be with PILD since, well, it's much, MUCH longer than this website will ever tell you. 😉 Someone told me last week that the difference between being a writer and being a talented writer is knowing your audience. For him, I fall into the latter … Continue reading Happy WordPress Anniversary, Poison In Lethal Doses!

In The Face of Trauma: Fatherless Daughter

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Last month, my doctor asked if anything specific was triggering me. At the time, I couldn't think of anything. Until a specific day came, and I broke down in tears for hours. It had been a long time since I'd allowed myself to do that. 😦 The majority of my breakdowns are quiet. Real quiet. … Continue reading In The Face of Trauma: Fatherless Daughter

Bear With Me

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Hi, everyone! I'm having a rough time, and all this while I am working on so much for this site. 😦 I've already ruled out that I'm not having a heart attack, but man, everything feels so much worse right now. Let me be clear; death anniversaries are hard for me. They involve flashbacks and … Continue reading Bear With Me

Celebrating Poison In Lethal Doses!

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Thank you to InkblotGDS for the amazing new logo. I am proud of the imagery which was in my head and heart, and is now a real thing for people to see and try to figure out. Does the sword look familiar? I want to see if anyone knows where it came from. **If you're … Continue reading Celebrating Poison In Lethal Doses!

Crickets, Dark Depression, Change, & Investment Power

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I haven't written anything here in a while, and I have my reasons. No, I wasn't too busy. I was stuck in my own head, with my own thoughts, and then I had work in front of me which I was so determined to get done. Most of it went great, but now I've got … Continue reading Crickets, Dark Depression, Change, & Investment Power

Stopping By

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Hello, everyone! It's been a while, and under normal circumstances I might apologize, but the truth is; that's not necessary. It's been a very rough period of time for me, and as a direct result, this has affected my health in some very serious ways, which I am trying to reconcile. It's not simple. I … Continue reading Stopping By

Check In

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Is it really Thursday? AGAIN? My best friend and I say this every week, especially if we don't get a few hours to chat about what's going on in our lives. Factor in a seven hour time difference. I won't lie; there are many moments when I have almost crawled into bed and stayed up … Continue reading Check In

What Are You Looking For In A Therapist?

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You've seen the title of this piece, so let me start by saying this question has been asked of me by my doctor, and it's a long story. Overall, my best response was, "Someone who isn't an asshole. Someone who isn't going to waste my time, and someone whose office I will not leave more … Continue reading What Are You Looking For In A Therapist?