Writing: The Pleasure & the Bane II

The following are entries I began in a journal (handwritten in pencil) when my youngest was approaching 3 years of age. All the entries are in the ‘bane’ aspect but one has to wonder where the ‘pleasure’ comes from such as this? March 28 I do really want to be writing again but am having […]

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Pen, Paper, Journal (re-post from Avalon Authors) with Addendum

Desperately seeking a lost manuscript (remember those, handwritten in ink, possibly on lined paper?), I came across a stack of my journals from years in college, traveling, first years of courtship and marriage. These journals – the diaries of old – have been replaced by digital explosions of shared communication in forms of blogs, tweets, […]

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Notes in Notebooks 2

Just a small display of notebooks I have in my possession. Some of these were handmade for me; some were gifts and most were covet-buys – including the Collins A5 I am currently using for the first draft of my latest novel. I have trunk loads. I do ask myself if I ‘need’ another and […]

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Notes in Notebooks

You have to be a little scared when your best friend gives you a pocket notebook for your musings. One: because notes and musings are best written on recyclable envelopes so that no one close to you has any idea that you are serious – or pretentious enough to have the offending supply. Two: You […]

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