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This thread reminds me of the old joke:
Q: What's the first step in writing the great American Novel?
A: Clean out the refrigerator.
I suspect every person has their own personal demons, angels and stop/start buttons.
Prior to retiring, I wrote extensively, but only as part of my job doing PR and IR.
Upon retirement, I planned to write fiction, but never got around to it.
Then three years later, I got into computer graphics. The images I created began to tell me stories. This led to an illustrated short story.
Once that was finished, I got an idea for a text-only novelette, and wrote and edited the entire 10,600 piece in three days. Once I started, I couldn't stop until it was finished!
Go figure.
Who knows if that will ever happen again.
Both stories cry out to become the beginnings of their own series. We'll se if that happens. Hope so. For the first time ever, I truly enjoyed writing.
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