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I know it is a first world problem, my life is not in danger and no one is trying to kidnap me off the street, but dealing with FAFSA under this regime is beyond frustrating! Are we great yet?
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I can relate. Thanks to those “Great” cuts to medical research funding, I’m losing my job of 20+ years.
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Damn, George… I’m truly sorry.
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“What borders on stupidity? Mexico and Canada.” 😖
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Would really like a portkey out of here. Or a timeturner?
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me three
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Got to be honest, never have I been more glad to live in Australia.
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I’d like both, please.
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anyone have any advice on how to break a HORRIBLE, long standing writer’s block? 🙃
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Sometimes you have to remind yourself that you aren’t a fish… or was that for hiccups? 😅
Sometimes I write a sentence and that’s enough or maybe somebody kidnapped your muse?
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Nope. Good luck though! I’m sure you’ll crack it eventually and kick some literary ass!
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A few years back I had writer’s block and did a strange creativity exercise that helped a lot. I wrote a kitchen sex scene told from the point of view of the APPLIANCES.
The microwave oven let out another angry, “BEEEP!”, meaning, “Take your sausage out of her, and get your damn fried chicken out of me!”
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To start a new story, finish one of the many WIP, or clean. Hmmmmmm.
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Fell down the Tiktok FF/book binding rabbit hole last night. SMH. What is wrong with people?
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Been reading up… and there’s authors deleting their stories due to the proverbial game of whack-a-mole, which AO3 makes this easier too with PDF downloading. AFAICT, the etsy/book-binding is like charging HUNDRED or more bucks for printed/bound copies of particular fanfictions, acting as the publisher. Yeah, this is pissing the writers off.
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Rightfully so! I was offended as a reader – you, oh bottom feeders, are jeopardizing our “harmless” entertainment. Go away!
In our defense, downloaded from AFF is not easy. As a writer, I tried with one of my stories to take a red pen to it. NO DICE.
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Getting high-priced lawyers involved is how you get the new rules around Star Trek fan-films (15 minutes max, no episodes, etc...), or the rights holder goes Anne Rice and prohibits all fanfiction with cease & desist orders. Anybody rich enough to counter with lawsuits is also well off enough to negotiate authorized derivative works, leaving the average fanfic writer high & dry. Hope those bottom feeders suffer from papercuts, lots and lots of vicious papercuts.
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Never realized my writing skills would boil down to helping TinyDancer write fellowship applications ...
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😅 what came to mind was frodo filling out a ringbearer application while standing in line. 😅
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My “succinct” eloquence will always be needed when she’s only allowed 1 page …
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I’m ALIVE!
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Welcome back to the show, @pittwitch.
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Woo!
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Welcome back, Pittwitch, it’s lovely to have you back
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Well, having failed all conservative treatment options, I’ll be setting up for chemotherapy for this oddball immune system of mine. Wish me luck!
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Sorry to hear that, Pittwitch. But I wish you the best of luck, and my thoughts are with you.
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Everything will work out, you’ll see.
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You didn’t fail those treatment options – they failed you.
Hope the chemo goes well.
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Merry Christmas, fictional friends!
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Merry Christmas right back atcha!
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The same to you!
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Taking baby steps: wrote one page, now fighting my inner demons NOT to tear it up and burn it. I’ve got to get back in the writing habit, even if it is AWFUL.
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fight the urge. fuel is expensive
So many hate the fact that the perfection eludes them but they fail to consider the inverse nothing you write is <3 worthless. <3
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I’m with BW! You got this!
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Day 7 of quarantine. Things are definitely less than ideal.
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They’re slowly getting everyone full functionality. This was not well planned lol.
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Well, I don’t work for the government, but I do work at a grocery store, so I sympathize in regard to the craziness. Sorry for what you’re going through.
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Operation GetFired is not going well. I must up my SnarkGame.
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Thus far, I’ve tried:
- Telling off the biggest boss I could find
- threatened to stab my favorite coworker with a plastic spoon
- told a client that I’m not Dr. Who and can’t use the Tardis to travel back in time to accommodate their request
- told same client that they would need to provide the Oujia board to have the dead person sign the documents that they wanted signed
- yelling at the closest supervisor to me
- Yelling at email from aforementioned client: “F off, Dickety Dick!” in front of the biggest of the big bosses
- Asked another client, “What part of ‘your borrower does not want to do that’ did you knot understand?”
- Stood up with the same coworker, blasted “I Will Survive” while singing along and Dancing at our desks
- Bit my supervisor’s finger – she had her hand clamped over my mouth when MucketySchmuck was escorting visitors past us on a tour – ruined my perfect window of opportunity
- Sat at my desk and filed my nails while waiting for the computer to catch up to me
- used my cellphone at my desk in full view of everyone
- walked across the office with my dress tucked in my underwear – granted that was a mistake but …
- deliberately did not dress up on “visitor day”
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Honestly, just reading this is one of the funniest experiences I’ve had this month.
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This witch is MELTING.
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Forecast for my area says it may get up to 27c/80f on one day next week. We’re not used to this kind of thing. We live in high, cold places for ONE reason! (Alright, two including avoiding hordes of angry villagers with pitchforks and torches.)
I hope ya able to get cooled down in your places tho’ all.
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Why are you dancing in the rain?
115 F/ 46.1 C Here in good ol AZ
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Say it with me: This WILL be a better week!
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Damn it, I do hope eldest Spawn is back out tomorrow and a-ok.
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Excellent. Fingers crossed for a smoother run from here on.
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does not recommend stair surfing. Things get broken. Like your neck, your collarbone, and apparently your wrist.
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I’ll keep you in my thoughts too, Pittwitch. Get well soon.
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Ow, shit ouch. Fucksakes, horrible for you. I hope you’re doing better after the surgery.
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Oh my goodness. I’m sorry. I hope you get well soon.
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Pass the brain bleach, please?
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We don’t have extra strength on hand.
We apologize for the inconvenience.
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If we’ve run out, it might be because some of my readers were hogging it again.
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Let one more person yell at me today and they will KNOW why I am called witch.
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Work folk. The kind who think the louder they yell the more right they are ..
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Oh good, I got family like that. I’ve perfected the stew inside and vent later response.
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I tried SO hard to get fired today. Dammit. I failed.
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Please, for the love of anything that you hold sacred, mind the words that come out of your mouth today, Mr. President.
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My beautiful BronxWench – thank you for the marvelous gifts: your story, your amazing writing, your guidance and most importantly your friendship. I cannot wait to carve out some time with a warm mug and your newest tale. You are truly a blessing in my life.
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You were the one to encourage me to submit my first novella for publication, my sweet Witch. You’ve been there for me through all of it, and I’ve cherished our friendship for the past eight years—and yes, it’s been that long!
You are so very dear to me,and always will be, my heart’s sister.
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Escaped the hospital just in time for vacation. C y’all real soon!
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What the heck happened???
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Asking the important question there! I hope you’re doing ok pittwitch, and I’ll stop imagining an escape in the style of Leeloo at the start of Fifth Element.
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hope you are alright Pittwitch!
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Really, it takes a LOT to push me over the edge. I’m (((this))) close. Teenagers. Bah!
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Must not kill of your own spawn, eh?
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@pittwitch Other people tend to get upset when you do, not to mention the paperwork.
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There’s always paperwork, and so much of it! @Desiderius Price is right about that.
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Please don’t feed the trolls. Please don’t fee the trolls. Please DO NOT feed the trolls.
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@BronxWench mobile phones can be spoofed, effectively no security there.
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@pittwitch Can you set the language to Eskimo?
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Best solution yet, JayDee!
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Happy Holidays writers, readers, friends!
