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Some Perspective…
Sometimes Life Just Tosses You Perspective… Tonight, while I sat in my Cadillac, waiting for Kris, I glanced over and there was a tiny kitten on the top of a wall right near the street. Then a person moved who had been sitting beside the wall, and I realized it was a homeless person with a sign. Now, we were way out north and west of town, in suburban and strip malls, where the homeless seldom went, but there was a restaurant Kris loved and I didn’t much care for. I had a basic McDonalds’ hamburger in a bag I wasn’t going to eat and some fries, so I took…
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Perspective
Sometimes I Find Perspective Hard to Hang Onto… Sometimes so much good stuff comes in at the same time, that even a little bad stuff tends to really mess up the perspective. For example, today was my last PT session after eight full months. Docs released me to the wild. Yay… We are about 90% caught up on the disaster that was this spring and early summer. At least with all the major projects. Still a lot of stuff hanging out that will come around in time, but we are all having fun now and going forward. The “issues” caused by the air conditioner water leak are resolved for the…
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Perspective
Topic of the Night: Perspective This is just a thought a friend had about why so many great writers are getting discouraged and quitting. He thinks it might have something to do with perspective, and I think he might have a point. The system when he and I came into publishing worked like this in general: You expected to spend five or so years learning your craft, getting rejections, then eight or ten years into the process you would sell a novel which would take a couple years to come out. Then, if you wrote regularly a couple books a year, in ten years you might be able to make a…