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It is by sitting down to write every morning that one becomes a writer.
    ––     Gerald Brenan
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On This Day In:
2022 Most First Steps Start From Here
2021 B3: Start By Just Being You
Everybody Tells Me So
2020 Never B3
2019 No Small Thing
2018 Unsaid And Undone
2017 Evidence Of Faith
2016 Patience Is A Virtue
2015 Slow Faith
2014 Not In Any Sense
2013 The Circus On TV
2012 To Be Stronger
2011 Are You Sure?

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The secret to being a writer is that you have to write.  It’s not enough to think about writing or to study literature or plan a future life as an author.  You really have to lock yourself away, alone, and get to work.
    –     Augusten Burroughs
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On This Day In:
2022 Under My Fingertips…
Seeking The Divine
2021 And My Sister Is Taxing
What Did The Wise Men Say?
2020 One Phrase
2019 Why #LyingDonald Can’t Trust Any Honorable Person
2018 An Old Style Conservative
2017 John Q.
2016 In Trembling Hope Repose
2015 Let There Be Light
2014 Unless
2013 Divergent Roads To Similarity?
2012 In The Process
2011 What Do You Emphasize?

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To survive, you must tell stories.
    —    Umberto Eco
[There is a saying that you “live” as long as you are remembered.  I wonder if blogging counts?    —    KMAB]
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On This Day In:
2015 Stretched Today?
2014 Outta Here
2013 Getting Words Right
2012 There’s A New Dog In Town
Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is
2011 A Conservative Is…

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This is how you do it:  you sit down at the keyboard and you put one word after another until its done.  It’s that easy, and that hard.
     —    Neil Gaiman
 [Found at one of the blogs I follow:  http://writersfield.wordpress.com/
The specific post is:  http://writersfield.wordpress.com/2013/11/08/13-reasons-to-start-or-keep-on-writing/
     —    kmab]
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On This Day In:
2021 Going Home
In The Morning Hour
2020 Seeking Wisdom
Relying On The Old Man
2019 More Proof #45 Is Incompetent?
2018 Every Time I Think I’m Falling
2017 Still Testing The Hypothesis
2016 Excessive Weakness In January
2015 That Burns
2014 Hey, I Resemble That Remark… (4!)
2013 Sit, Put, Until…
2012 Lessons For My Son
2011 Reaching The Right Audience
2010 Christmas Trees and Profession of Faith

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And to you, dear WordPress land, keep writing your truths.  Because it has to count.  It has to mean something that we reach more people with our own sense of humanity, vulnerability, power and compassion.  Because here, I think, the world is starting to make sense on ‘paper’.
Found on one of the blogs I follow:  http://thebambooprinciple.wordpress.com
The specific post is:  http://thebambooprinciple.wordpress.com/2013/08/10/on-paper-dear-wordpress/
[Well, virtually, if not on ‘paper’.    —    kmab]
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On This Day In:
2021 Said The Anti-Vaxxer
Ceiling Mash
2020 Is #45 In Good Spirits?
Alone With My Tears
2019 Learning To…
Day 15: Die By The Scale
2018 Just Wondering
2017 Until I Think Of Something Better
2016 Who Are You?
2015 Renaissance Reptiles
2014 Book Return
2013 Keep Writing Your Truths
Perilous Times For The U.S. Military
2012 The Victor
2011 Forging Away At My Deadlines
2010 Try This With Your Shoes…

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Definition of rock journalism:  People who can’t write, doing interviews with people who can’t think, in order to prepare articles for people who can’t read.
    —    Frank Zappa
[I sometimes wonder if there might not be an internet (blogging) corollary to this observation.  Myself, included.    —    kmab]
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On This Day In:
2021 Access Is Good
The Sun Is Shining
No Recall
2020 Give Me A Minute To Think About That…
November 3rd Is Coming!
An Eye For An Eye
2019 Is #45 Warning Alabama Again?
Day 11: 49ers Win
2018 Worry (x2)
2017 Still Working
Gold In The Morning Sun
2016 Power Inside
2015 Sometimes I Feel Small
2014 It Slipped Away
2013 Corollary
2012 Working Retired
2011 The Web Is Not Authoritative! (Really?)

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First have something to say, second say it, third stop when you have said it, and finally give it an accurate title.
     —    John Shaw Billings
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On This Day In:
2021 It Also Helps To Marry Well
Holding Hands And Thinking
2020 A Mandelbrot Set
I Still Can’t…
2019 Proposing A Happy Birthday
35 Years Later
2018 Forever
2017 Too Good To Be True
Plain Speaking
2016 She Is Still Singing
2015 Don’t Complain
2014 Nothing Is The Same
Orange October (XII) – Giants Win Game 7 (3 To 2) And World Series (4 To 3)
2013 Hours, Days, And Years
2012 In Kev Are In Hil
2011 No Game, Didn’t Really Happen
A Good Post

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