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“Self-sufficiency, dirty hands, reclamation, cooperation with nature, establishing a sense of place in a world that can often be hostile towards you…it is truly miraculous to harvest food from your garden.“
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Wrote 675 words of a new novella this morning; another paranormal military thriller. My goal was 500 words, so I'm off to a good start.
Yes. I find the more I give myself permission to write what I think is fun without worrying about whether it “matters,” the more I write stories that readers enjoy.
Also, this: “There is no escape: everything is a trope, and tropes are narrative tools, but they should not be the thing that defines your novel.”
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“That hope chest certainly is filled with hope — for the male partner, that is, who has the luxury of showing up for a relationship without having anything to offer.”
Amazing level of ignorance, really. I believe it has to be intentional.
While I’m commmenting: I would be shocked if most men ever noticed, let alone cared, that the towels and, say, blankets were matched. Or mismatched. (And if you’re claiming that men don’t have dishes or towels, you’re in for a surprise when you finally meet one!) We are famously perfectly content with using an old wire spool as a table.
Finally: I don’t know which is more absurdly wrong: believing that women have noncontrol over their lives, or believing that men have full control over yours--let alone their own.
