You don't need more time, you need fewer distractions.
You don't need motivation, you need self-control.
You don't need more resources, you need resourcefulness.
You don't need luck, you need preparation.
You don't need to be busy, you need to be focused.
You don't need to know everything, you just need to start.
You have everything you need.
Agree?
So are we still more upset about Diverse, but qualified, yet presumed unqualified hires, than DUI hires?
(Asking for anyone who cares about US National Security)
Pete Hegseth needs to go for the safety of the United States & the allies that we still have.
I’m going to say something that shouldn’t be controversial but will be. If you are a Christian, you can support border control and immigration being legal vs illegal. You CANNOT celebrate deportations and get off on the cruelty, and be a real Christ follower. Period
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Thank you, so much, for shedding light on this!
As an author who has been surrounded by a similar culture, it’s frustrated me how the media only reports on right-wing censorship and insists it’s purely a right-wing issue. It does indeed happen on the right, and the left. It happens on all sides.
I’ve started to see shelves in bookstores more frequently highlighting things like “LGBTQ+ fiction” or “Books by X Race,” and I’m not sure how I feel about it. On one hand, if there is interest for those …
Of course we're being forced to pigeonhole ourselves unwillingly. It's no different than the yellow star of David, pink triangle, or other identifiers so favored by the National Socialist camp system (the identity-centric left seems obtusely blind to the parallels). And if you try to represent diversity in your work, you're accused of appropriating something or another or not being able to accurately represent a particular character's point of view based on identify (of course no one says women…
Dang, that’s awful!
It sucks to see writing focused communities all about censorship when writing should be about having the bravery to present challenging ideas. The diversity conundrum is a mess too - You have to represent those POVs, yet you can’t write those POVs, and it basically creates a trap where writers feel they may as well give up…
NaNo has also disappointed me over the years. They stopped legitimately treating it like a challenge and replaced their attitude with a bunch of “We’re all…
Yeah...it's really tough. I actually did the challenge on my own (by accident really) when I was working on a project and then decided the following year to try the "official" version. BIG mistake I'm still paying for in some ways. Their closed message boards were echo-chambers of nastiness. God forbid you wrote anything other than queer speculative fantasy or the like...
The sad thing is I've found better writing communities once I left the realm of the "declared" writing forums. People who enjoy a particular TV show or fiction genre are often quite good at giving feedback, and they're nowhere near as locked into the dogma that's currently possessing parts of the fiction community. It's also fun to help them learn to get some of their own stories down...so many of the writing forums are also excessively hostile to newcomers or new writers.
