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It's crazy. I was telling my wife that I wish I could learn writing. In everything I do, I've always wished that I had the gall to create more. I'm a musician, but not a songwriter, so I've always wished that I learned song craft. I had a few years where I did nothing but watch films and wanted to be a screenwriter. I'd go through all my favorite novels by Chuck, Hornby, Coupland, etc. and wish that I could write a novel. But here I am, almost 45 and said to my wife this weekend that I re…

Please don't make this a "should." Just look for an idea or the germ of an idea that keeps you coming back to the page. I'll hammer on this more in the near future.

I'm definitely inspired. I've got so many past lives that I want to pull from, and I have a deep fascination with sub cultures (some I've been a part of). Hell, I was on track to being a Pentecostal preacher in Texas from 1993-2001, now I'm an evangelical atheist. Also went from working in a photo lab for 20 years as a high school dropout, to having a masters degree and working as an Archivist in DC. All things that whisper in my ear to "write something."

Chuck’s best advice is to just write. Get it out, get it on the page. Then you can delete/add/rearrange but at least it’s there for you to shape. Otherwise it’s still just a wish. ❤️

Tiffany! Good morning!

Morning, Chuck!

I know you’ll get to it, but it was your story of the reading interrupter folks, the balloon poppers, that really brought this home for me.

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Sep 21, 2021
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