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"this is your life. still living on the west side street where you grew up. dividing your life between the writing desk and the telephone table and the analyst's couch. is this the woman everybody envies? is this the woman that's supposed to have the answer? ask kathryn kuhlman. or clare booth luce. or helen gurley brown. start your own religion. become a faith healer. marry money. start a magazine. those people have answers. but not writers. we are paid for our pain. and our nightmares. we are paid to drift foggily from the typewriter to the kitchen stove (where we make still another pot of coffee and remark to ourselves that we really ought to mop the kitchen floor). then we drift back. we get paranoid from too much solitude and believe our publishers are ripping us off or our readers are pestering us. we get a dozen raving mash notes and one unsigned, illiterate hate letter and remember only the hate letter. we spend so much time alone, brooding, that we become obsessed with sex, with fame, with chimerical business deals. we hunger for love, ache for sex-- and yet, when we get it, dispose of it quickly so as not to let it interfere with our writing. unhappiness is our element. we come to believe we can't function without it."
--erica jong
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snoellelong:
i feel badly for people who have to live with writers. having to deal with the unique "creative genius." they deserve awards.
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 November 9, 2012 at 3:41PM
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DIS-illusioned: Also, not forgetting writers' 'craze and gloom' ... *Sigh* :-p
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November 9, 2012 at 5:47PM
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| Charade: For me it's my emotional roller coaster-ness!
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September 28, 2013 at 12:20PM
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snoellelong:
paperwork, paperwork, paperwork. just want to get to writing or collaging. harrumph.
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November 2, 2012 at 1:07PM
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DIS-illusioned: Hmm! Can't really say I've ever tried writing or collaging harrumph, but I'm guessing it can't be that easy. :-p
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November 2, 2012 at 2:06PM
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snoellelong:
what would you -like- me to share?
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November 1, 2012 at 9:43AM
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shelley kaye: your credit card numbers with exp dates and that security code on the back....
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November 1, 2012 at 10:00AM
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| snoellelong: haha yes that would probably get me a lot of readers, eh? lol
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November 1, 2012 at 10:22AM
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DIS-illusioned: Please, don't mind shelley--pfft!
Let's have the phone numbers to all the pretty girls you know ... and your bank account digits.
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November 1, 2012 at 10:23AM
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| Nick©: Those cookies you have!
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November 1, 2012 at 10:29AM
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| snoellelong: do pumpkin muffins work? those i do have.
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November 1, 2012 at 10:33AM
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| snoellelong: DIS-- does your smiley face have a handlebar mustache? kudos.
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November 1, 2012 at 10:33AM
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| Nick©: COOKIES!
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November 1, 2012 at 10:35AM
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| snoellelong: unfortunately, it only allows two posts per 24 hours.
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November 1, 2012 at 11:21AM
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| Karl_Schembri: Damn... send me your writings by carrier pigeon, or I can send you one of my loyal owls :)
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November 1, 2012 at 11:32AM
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| snoellelong: my, it would take a while via owl to malta.
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November 1, 2012 at 12:16PM
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| snoellelong: longer than 24 hours, i would bet, haha.
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November 1, 2012 at 12:16PM
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| Karl_Schembri: I'm actually living in the Gaza Strip so even longer... just hang them to one of the F-16s the US government donates to Israel then!
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November 1, 2012 at 2:14PM
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| snoellelong: haha i'm sure they wouldn't refuse such a patriotic request. or i can let you writhe in anticipation for what i may post next.
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November 1, 2012 at 2:29PM
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| snoellelong: read what's there, you glutton, then we'll chat about more.
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November 1, 2012 at 9:24PM
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No writing posted. 
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None yet.
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No writing posted.
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