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PERSEVERANCE

Perseverance is one virtue important to me as a writer. I just keep going though, numerous times, I don't know where I'm heading. I know that I can't stay where I am.

Writing is like a long journey. I discover new things I never knew before. I meet new people. Every once in a while I need to be challenged. Writing is challenging at times but I wouldn't have any other way. 

No matter how hard it gets, I have to keep going. Once I edited one of my stories over thirty times until I felt it was right. I'm currently working on a character who is evolving over time. I keep working on the goal until it is finished.

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WORDS OF WISDOM

You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say.

~F. Scott Fitzgerald, Author (1896-1940)

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MY FAVORITE SEASON

 

I ENJOY EDITING

I am editing some stories and poems I have written recently. Looking at them again, I found ways to write them better. I founhow many what I  da ways to write them better. 

Editing is something I derive much joy doing it. My vocabulary has improved much. I'm using some of the new words I learned. One of my favorite words is 'wonted.' 

I'm amazed by some of the mistakes I made. I read some of the things I wrote and said to myself  "I wrote this???". Just as writing a good story is important, so is editing. I want to convey my thoughts in a clear and concise way. The wrong words can literally mess up a story/poem. My phrase is to keep editing.

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Learn as much by writing ✍ as by reading 📚. 

~John Dalberg-Acton, Historian (1834-1902)

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OPINIONS ABOUT AUTHORS ARE SUBJECTIVE

I read a post on Facebook earlier today asking which writer are overrated. To me it's subjective. There are writers I enjoy reading; there's others I didn't enjoy reading. I don't criticize other authors because I don't want to taint someone else's mind and stop them from reading that particular author.     

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PLACES TO GO

 

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9/11

 

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THE DARK SIDE

I enjoy reading horror stories from time to time. I have also written a few horror stories myself. I like exploring the other side of people's emotions. I.m drawn to weird and unusual people and places. I can write a story about an abandoned warehouse or an eccentric person who lives in the park. 

LITERARY INFLUENCES

 These are some of the authors who were my influences

Edgar Allan Poe, Jack Kerouac, Sylvia Plath, Herman Melville, Langston Hughes, Mary Oliver, William Shakespeare, Virginia Woolf

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CONTRASTING LIVES

I am writing about two contrasting people. One is a multi millionaire filmmaker who lives in a mansion. The other lives in a basement apartment with the bare essentials (by his own standards). Ironically, these two men are friends. 

I just thought of a millionaire marrying a girl who works at a fast food place. Also a king who marries a peasant girl. This may have happened much in the past and today. I want to put my spin on the subject.

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POEM

 ALONENESS

I'm acquainted with it

I'm not lonely

I enjoy being by myself

A solitary figure in the sea of life.

I trek to places I'm intimate with

Washington Square Park

St. Mark's Place. Port Authority.

The Forty-Deuce

Christopher Street Pier.

Even in these crowded environs

I can find solitude

Shutting out all the distractions

Like a caterpillar in a cocoon.

~Genevieve

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HONORING LABORERS

 

SEPTEMBER