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2020 Writing Habits

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Photo by  Caroline Rccrd  on  Unsplash  There are numerous ways to have writing support in 2020. Writing has been a solitary event for many writers for far too long. 2020 gives us a chance to set new goals and focus on new items, perhaps writing with a group in a public forum, sharing works with writer friends for critique, or submitting work to online groups to look over each other’s work. Writing can be an interactive collaborative event. While we continue to write alone, we can do it together. 2020 is the year you share your work and stop writing chained to a desk. It is the year you begin interacting with other writers!       A writing group is a great way to get instant feedback and can help us take our writings into the New Year with spunk and spirit. Actually, meeting with like-minded artist is a great way to get instant feedback. It can take your writing into new areas you did not see. I once sat in a writing group that analyzed a person’s writing and told the p

Holiday Hum Bugs

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                                                      Photo by  Kelly Sikkema  on  Unsplash It is another holiday season and not all of us are jingling all the way. Some of us are struggling to pay bills, others have no food in their fridge, while others of us are contemplating suicide. Yes the holiday hum bugs are upon us. It is the time of emotions getting away from us. Life seems like it should be a famous Christmas painting when indeed we are lucky to make it through the day. There is no life is a lemon, make lemonade. There is one breath, two, three, There is one step forward and try not to fall back and land like a pancake. The holiday season starts with Halloween and we are okay, then thanksgiving hits and we realize this is going to be harder then we thought. Christmas hits us like a pyramid fell on our heads. We start with oh candy, ooooh candy half off, we move to not enough money for turkey or no one to share the holidays with, Christmas comes around. The season of Chr